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Activity Number: 160
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2014 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
Abstract #311602
Title: Strategies for Selecting a Follow-Up Sample of Nonrespondents in Business Surveys
Author(s): Elisabeth Neusy*+ and Wesley Yung and Jean-François Beaumont and Mike Hidiroglou and David Haziza
Companies: Statistics Canada and Statistics Canada and Statistics Canada and Statistics Canada and Université de Montréal
Keywords: Nonresponse ; Follow-up
Abstract:

Follow-up of nonrespondents in business surveys is a time and resource intensive activity. Unlike household surveys where respondents are more-or-less equivalent, business surveys have influential units for whom a response is absolutely necessary in order to not adversely affect level estimates. An extensive simulation study was undertaken to compare different methods of performing follow-up for business surveys. For a fixed budget, is it best to follow-up all nonrespondents or only a sample of nonrespondents? If it is better to follow-up a sample of nonrespondents, what is the best way to select this sample? Should the sample be selected using simple random sampling (SRS), stratified SRS or probability proportional to size (PPS) sampling? The different methods were evaluated via a simulation study by comparing their Monte Carlo mean square errors.


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