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Handling nonresponse in business surveys
Der Umgang mit Nichtbeantwortung von Konjunkturumfragen
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Abstract "Business surveys are a valuable indication of the current and the future economic situation. However refusals are very common in this context and may induce bias in the estimates of interest. In this paper the problem of adjusting for nonresponse estimators of relevant economic outcomes is consider... view more
"Business surveys are a valuable indication of the current and the future economic situation. However refusals are very common in this context and may induce bias in the estimates of interest. In this paper the problem of adjusting for nonresponse estimators of relevant economic outcomes is considered. Using a large simulation study, the authors investigate how weighting adjusted procedures are influenced by the specification of the response model utilized in calculation of the weights. They consider, in particular, how trimming the weights can have an impact on the final estimates and they propose a bootstrap-based procedure to determine an optimal trimming threshold. The authors illustrate the procedure using a 2009 survey of a large population of Italian firms." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
data collection method; method; response behavior; economic trend; business cycle research; Italy; enterprise; survey research
Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 145-154
Journal
Survey Research Methods, 6 (2012) 3
Issue topic
Papers from ITACOSM11
ISSN
1864-3361
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
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