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Evaluating the Utility of Linked Administrative Data for Nonresponse Bias Adjustment in a Piggyback Longitudinal Survey

Büttner Tobias J.M. (), Sakshaug Joseph W. () and Vicari Basha ()
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Büttner Tobias J.M.: Federal Employment Agency/Institute for Employment Research, 104 Regensburger Straße, Nuremberg 90478, Germany.
Sakshaug Joseph W.: Federal Employment Agency/Institute for Employment Research, 104 Regensburger Straße, Nuremberg 90478, Germany.
Vicari Basha: Federal Employment Agency/Institute for Employment Research, 104 Regensburger Straße, Nuremberg 90478, Germany.

Journal of Official Statistics, 2021, vol. 37, issue 4, 837-864

Abstract: Nearly all panel surveys suffer from unit nonresponse and the risk of nonresponse bias. Just as the analytic value of panel surveys increase with their length, so does cumulative attrition, which can adversely affect the representativeness of the resulting survey estimates. Auxiliary data can be useful for monitoring and adjusting for attrition bias, but traditional auxiliary sources have known limitations. We investigate the utility of linked-administrative data to adjust for attrition bias in a standard piggyback longitudinal design, where respondents from a preceding general population cross-sectional survey, which included a data linkage request, were recruited for a subsequent longitudinal survey. Using the linked-administrative data from the preceding survey, we estimate attrition biases for the first eight study waves of the longitudinal survey and investigate whether an augmented weighting scheme that incorporates the linked-administrative data reduces attrition biases. We find that adding the administrative information to the weighting scheme generally leads to a modest reduction in attrition bias compared to a standard weighting procedure and, in some cases, reduces variation in the point estimates. We conclude with a discussion of these results and remark on the practical implications of incorporating linked-administrative data in piggyback longitudinal designs.

Keywords: Attrition; auxiliary data; between-wave events; panel survey; weighting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.2478/jos-2021-0037

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