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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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514
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #302360 |
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Title:
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Nonresponse Follow-Up Allocation for Domains
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Author(s):
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Harold Mantel*+ and Mike Hidiroglou
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Companies:
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Statistics Canada and Statistics Canada
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Address:
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16-H R.H. Coats Building, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0T6, Canada
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Keywords:
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non-response ;
follow-up ;
allocation ;
domains
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Abstract:
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In this paper we consider the problem of how to allocate a sub-sample of non-respondents from an initial sample for follow-up, when we want to estimate totals or means for domains. We consider different scenarios for what is known. At one extreme, we may know the domain of every unit in the initial sample, whether it responds or not. Alternatively, we may only know the domain of the respondent units, but have some auxiliary information such as the domain sizes. We assume that follow-up is intensive, so that all of the non-respondents in the follow-up sub-sample will become respondents, although this is unrealistic in practice. We then derive expressions for the variance which we use to find a follow-up allocation that satisfies CV criteria for domains of interest. Finally, we show how the assumption of complete response to the follow-up can be relaxed.
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