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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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427
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011 : 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 - #303111 |
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Title:
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An Overview of Following Rules in Household Panels and Their Effect on Sample Size
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Author(s):
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Matthias Schonlau*+ and Nicole Watson and Martin Kroh
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Companies:
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RAND Corporation and University of Melbourne and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
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Address:
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, Pittsburgh, PA, ,
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Keywords:
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survey ;
household panel ;
following rule ;
sample size
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Abstract:
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In household panels, typically all household members are surveyed. Because household composition changes over time, so-called following rules are implemented to decide whether to continue surveying household members who leave the household (e.g. former spouses/partners, grown children) in subsequent waves. Following rules have been largely ignored in the literature leaving panel designers unaware of the breadth of their options and forcing them to make ad hoc decisions. In particular, to what extent various following rules affect sample size over time is unknown. Such knowledge is important because sample size greatly affects costs. We find that household survey panels implement a wide variety of following rules but their effect on sample size is relatively limited.
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