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Activity Number:
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479
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #310013 |
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Title:
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Nonresponse in Surveys of the College Educated Revisited
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Author(s):
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Patrick Flanagan*+ and Nancy Dexter
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Companies:
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U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
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Address:
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1314 Bristol Ridge Place, Crownsville, MD, 21032,
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Keywords:
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Nonresponse ; Survey ; logistic regression
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Abstract:
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The National Survey of College Graduates is one of three surveys that cover college and graduate degreed individuals in scientific fields. The Census Bureau has conducted one of these surveys, the National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG). In 1999, we conducted an analysis of nonresponse in the 1993 NSCG and compared the effect that various characteristics seem to have on nonresponse to results from other studies of the population in general. In this study, we repeated that analysis on the 2003 NSCG to see if the same effects were repeated and to take advantage of a wider array of frame variables. The results may be used to change the design of the nonresponse weight adjustment and possibly alter follow-up procedures.
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