The Hidden 25 Percent: An Analysis of Nonresponse on the 1980 General Social Survey |
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| Authors: | SMITH TOM W. |
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| Affiliation: | Tom W. Smith is Senior Study Director, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago. This research was done for the General Social Survey Project directed by James A. Davis. The project is supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant No. SOC77-03279. This is an abridged version of GSS Technical Report No. 25 published by NORC, 1981. The author wishes to thank James A. Davis, Howard Schuman, and Stanley Presser for their comments. |
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| Abstract: | Methods for estimating nonresponse bias are reviewed and severalmethods are tried on the 1980 GSS. The results indicate thatvarious estimating procedures are inappropriate and that eventhe more promising techniques can provide faulty estimates ofnonresponse bias. By its nature, nonresponse bias is very difficultto assess accurately and no simple, certain method exists. |
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