Abstract #300840

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300840
Activity Number: 242
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #300840
Title: Staying the Course: Patterns of Nonresponse in a National Longitudinal Study of Young Children
Author(s): Jerry West*+ and Jill Walston
Companies: National Center for Education Statistics and American Institutes for Research
Address: Room 9042, Washington, DC, 20208-0002,
Keywords: nonresponse ; longitudinal data ; survey research ; education
Abstract:

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: Kindergarten Class of 1998-99, sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics, follows a national sample of children from the start of kindergarten through the fifth grade. To date, five waves of the study have been completed, the last when most of the children were in third grade. A unique feature of the study design is that the interval between subsequent waves of data collection varies over the life of the study and for different samples of children. Another feature of the design is that data are collected from the children themselves, their parents, teachers, and schools. This paper examines nonresponse at each wave of the study and across waves. Particular attention is given to how the length of the interval between subsequent waves affects nonresponse. The paper examines whether or not particular groups of study subjects are affected more than others by the elapsed time between data collections. The implications of these findings for survey management and design are discussed.

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