Abstract #301572

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301572
Activity Number: 443
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 7, 2003 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #301572
Title: Sampling Nonrespondents: Why, When, and How Much?
Author(s): Timothy Triplett*+ and Kevin H. Wang and Adam Safir and Natalie Abi-Habib
Companies: The Urban Institute and The Urban Institute and The Urban Institute and The Urban Institute
Address: 2100 M St., Washington, DC, 20037-1207,
Keywords: sampling ; refusals ; nonresponse ; telephone surveys ; weighting
Abstract:

The 2002 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) is a dual-frame survey that relies primarily on a large RDD sample design using close to 400,000 telephone numbers. The survey consists of a short three-minute survey used to determine eligibility followed by a forty-five minute extended interview. Almost half of all potential respondents initially refused to participate. Although interviews are completed with close to forty percent of all initial refusals, the per-interview cost of converted refusals far exceeds that of initial cooperators. In addition, the data collection period is lengthened by refusal conversion. Therefore, for the 2002 NSAF survey we did not attempt refusal conversion for approximately twenty-five percent of our screener refusals. This research paper analyzes the effect of using this additional weighting adjustment on the survey estimates and the associated standard errors.

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