Does Weighting for Nonresponse Increase the Variance of Survey Means? (Journal Article)

Roderick J.A. Little and Sonya Vartivarian

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Abstract: Nonresponse weighting is a common method for handling unit nonresponse in surveys and is aimed at reducing nonresponse bias. Because the method can be accompanied by an increase in variance, the efficacy of weighting adjustments is often seen as a bias-variance trade-off.

Keywords: analysis of variance estimation; methods; models; nonresponse rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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