Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology)

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Outline placeholder......Page 0
Preface......Page 15
Conclusions......Page 18
Analysis Advantages......Page 21
Accuracy of Recall......Page 23
Between-respondent Variation......Page 24
Analysis Disadvantages......Page 25
Panel Conditioning......Page 26
Initial and Ongoing Costs......Page 27
Sample Design......Page 28
Weighting......Page 29
Intervals between Waves......Page 30
Modes......Page 31
Coverage Error......Page 32
Measurement Error......Page 33
References......Page 35
Conclusion......Page 37
Defining the Longitudinal Population......Page 39
Target Variables......Page 40
Sample Size......Page 41
Treatment of Movers......Page 42
Variances and Design Effects......Page 43
Choice of Rotation Period and Pattern......Page 44
Dealing with Births (and Deaths)......Page 45
Sample Overlap......Page 46
Stability of Units and Hierarchies......Page 47
References......Page 48
Acknowledgements......Page 50
Initial Consent......Page 53
Consent to Trace Respondents......Page 54
Implications for Consent of Changing Circumstances of Sample Members......Page 55
Consent for Linkage to Administrative Data......Page 56
Using Administrative Data without Full Consent......Page 57
Can Fully Informed Consent be Realised?......Page 58
Dependent Interviewing......Page 64
The Treatment of Research Data......Page 65
References......Page 68
Conclusion......Page 70
Sampling, Sample Maintenance and Sample Evaluation......Page 76
Evaluation Methodology......Page 77
Supplementing and Validating Survey Data......Page 78
Disclosure Control......Page 83
References......Page 84
Acknowledgements......Page 88
Development of New DI Procedures......Page 91
Testing and Refining the New Procedures......Page 93
Seam Bias Analysis for Programme Participation and Other ‘Spell’ Characteristics......Page 94
Seam Bias Evaluation for Income Amount Transitions......Page 102
References......Page 105
Acknowledgements......Page 108
Data Quality......Page 109
Survey Processes......Page 110
Corrective Follow-up......Page 111
Feeding Forward Item Nonresponse......Page 112
Reminder of Previous Reports......Page 113
Effects on Data Quality......Page 114
Comparison of DI Designs......Page 115
Comparison of DI Designs......Page 119
Labour Market Activity Histories......Page 120
School-Based Qualifications......Page 121
Comparison of DI Designs......Page 122
References......Page 125
Discussion......Page 127
References......Page 138
Conclusions......Page 141
Changes in Question Structure......Page 144
Effects of Visual vs. Aural Communication Channels......Page 146
Interviewer Presence......Page 149
How Answers to Scalar Questions are Affected by Visual vs. Aural Communication......Page 150
References......Page 151
Conclusion and Discussion......Page 155
References......Page 169
Conclusion......Page 170
Locating the Sample Member......Page 172
Contacting the Sample Member......Page 173
Interviewer Effects......Page 175
The Interview Experience......Page 176
The Role of Respondent Characteristics......Page 177
Race/Ethnicity......Page 178
Income......Page 179
Location......Page 180
The HILDA Survey Data......Page 181
Explanatory Variables......Page 182
Results......Page 184
References......Page 192
Acknowledgements......Page 195
The Likelihood of Moving......Page 197
Structural or Societal-level Factors......Page 199
Survey Design Factors......Page 200
References......Page 214
Acknowledgements......Page 216
Effects of Incentives on Response Rates on Mail Surveys......Page 217
Effects of Incentives on Sample Composition and Bias......Page 218
Summary: Effects of Incentives......Page 219
Summary: Current Practice on Longitudinal Surveys......Page 225
Effects of Incentives on Cumulative Response......Page 229
Targeting Incentives Based on Response at Previous Waves......Page 230
Effects of Incentives on Fieldwork Costs......Page 231
Previous Experiments on UK Longitudinal Surveys......Page 232
Effects on Reluctant Respondents......Page 233
Effects on Household Response......Page 234
Effects on Individual Response......Page 235
References......Page 242
Summary......Page 245
Descriptive Analysis......Page 251
Experiment 1: Interviewer Introductions......Page 254
Experiment 3: Data Collection Modes......Page 255
A Serendipitous Finding: The Relationship Between Type of Survey and Attrition......Page 256
References......Page 258
Conclusions......Page 260
Theorem 1......Page 265
Theorem 2......Page 266
Pseudo Likelihood Approach......Page 268
References......Page 272
Summary......Page 274
Population Definitions......Page 275
Samples and Follow-up......Page 277
The Horvitz-Thompson Estimator......Page 278
Link Functions......Page 279
Convexity and Variance of the Weighted Estimator......Page 282
Types of Calibration within Panels......Page 284
Initial Calibration (IC)......Page 285
Initial and Final Calibration (IFC)......Page 286
Empirical Evidence Regarding Nonresponse and Attrition......Page 287
Treatment via Estimation of Response Probabilities......Page 290
Initial Nonresponse (INR)......Page 291
The Case of Missing Link Functions......Page 293
References......Page 294
Conclusion......Page 296
References......Page 310
Concluding Remarks......Page 312
Form of the Intervention......Page 313
Conditions for the Evaluation......Page 314
Controlling for Confounders in the Analysis......Page 315
Value of Longitudinal Surveys......Page 316
References......Page 324
Acknowledgements......Page 326
References......Page 339
Acknowledgements......Page 341
Close Precursor......Page 342
Nonparametric Test for Close Precursor......Page 343
Kernel Density Estimation......Page 344
Local Likelihood Approach......Page 345
Assessing the Standard Error......Page 349
Interval-Censored Times......Page 350
Results......Page 351
Interval-Censored Times......Page 353
Results......Page 354
References......Page 356
Summary......Page 359
Quasi-Score Test......Page 366
Adjusted Hosmer-Lemeshow Test......Page 368
Parameter Estimates and Standard Errors......Page 370
Goodness-of-Fit Tests......Page 371
References......Page 373
Acknowledgements......Page 375
References......Page 387
Acknowledgements......Page 389
References......Page 399
Index......Page 401