Research project: Hierarchical analysis of unit-nonresponse in multistage surveys
The project has two principal aims: to better understand nonresponse as a social phenomenon, and to advance methodology for adjusting for nonresponse.
The project has two principal aims: to better understand nonresponse as a social phenomenon, and to advance methodology for adjusting for nonresponse.
Our results will guide survey practitioners in how to increase response rates and reduce nonresponse bias.
This three-year ESRC-funded project is directed by Gabriele Durrant (University of Southampton) and is being carried out in conjunction with Chris Skinner (University of Southampton), John Micklewright (Institute of Education), Fiona Steele (University of Bristol), Julia D'Arrigo (University of Southampton) and Sylke Schnepf (University of Southampton).
The specific aims of the project are:
For further information on the project please contact Dr Gabi Durrant
A list of presentations that have been/will be given;
D’Arrigo, J., Durrant, G.B. and Steele, F. (2010). Modelling the process leading to nonresponse using interviewer call record data, presentation at the Research Symposium on ‘Recent Advances in the Use of Paradata in Social Survey Research’, jointly organised by the Social Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society, Royal Statistical Society, London, 9 Dec 2010.
Durrant, G.B., D’Arrigo, J. and Steele, F. (2010). Modelling paradata: using call records, interviewer observation data and information on interviewers, Invited Presentation at the Workshop on Responsive and Adaptive Survey Designs at the US Census Bureau, 14-15 Oct 2010.
Skinner, C.J. and D’Arrigo, J. (2010). Inverse probability weighting for clustered nonresponse, presentation at the Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association (JSM), Vancouver, 31 July-5 Aug 2010.
Durrant, G.B., D’Arrigo, J. and Steele, F. (2010). Modelling the process leading to cooperation or refusal using interviewer call record data, poster presented at the 21st International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse, Nuernberg, 30 Aug-1 Sept 2010.
Micklewright, J., Durrant, G.B., Schnepf, S. and Skinner, C. (2010). Modelling contextual non-response behaviour in a multistage survey of school children, presentation at the ESRC/NCRM Research Methods Festival, Oxford, 5-8 July.
D’Arrigo, J., Durrant, G.B. and Steele, F. (2009). Using field process data to predict best times of contact conditioning on household and interviewer influences, 1st International Conference of the Priority Programme on Survey Methodology: Improving Survey Methods, Bremen, 12-13 Nov 2009.
Schnepf, S. (2009). How large were response biases in England in 2000 and 2003 in the PISA survey of school children?, 1st International Conference of the Priority Programme on Survey Methodology: Improving Survey Methods, Bremen, 12-13 Nov 2009.
D’Arrigo, J., Durrant, G.B. and Steele, F. (2009). Using field process data to predict cooperation: a multilevel event history modelling approach, presentation at the 20th International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse, Lausanne, 30 Aug-2 Sep 2009.
Durrant, G.B., D’Arrigo, J. and Steele, F. (2009). Using paradata to predict best times of contact conditioning on household and interviewer influences, invited paper presented at the International Workshop organised under the NCRM Network for Methodological Innovation: The Use of Paradata in UK Social Surveys, London, 24-26 August 2009.
Durrant, G.B., D’Arrigo, J. and Steele, F. (2009). Using paradata to inform best times of contact: a multilevel event history modelling approach, presentation at the International Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Warsaw, 29 June-3 July 2009.
Bynner, J., Goldstein, H. and Durrant, G.B. (2009). Solving the problem of attrition in longitudinal surveys?, presentation at the International Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Warsaw, 29 June-3 July 2009.
Durrant, G.B., Groves, R., Staetsky, L. and Steele, F. (2009). An investigation of interviewer effects on household nonresponse using a multilevel modelling approach, invited paper presented at the International Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) in a special session of the Survey Design and Measurement Initiative, Warsaw, 29 June-3 July 2009.
Schouten, B., Shlomo, N. and Skinner, C. (2009). Representativeness indicators for measuring and enhancing the composition of survey response, presentation at the 57th Session of International Statistical Institute, Durban, 16-22 Aug 2009.
Skinner, C. (2009). Nonresponse in sample surveys, plenary paper at the conference ‘Celebrating 75 years of statistics at Iowa State University’, Iowa, 3-5 June 2009.
Skinner, C., Shlomo, N., Schouten, B., Bethlehem, J. and Zhang, L-C. (2009). Measuring survey quality through representativeness indicators using sample and population-based information, presentation at the New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics Conference, EUROSTAT/European Commisson, Brussels, 18-20 Feb 2009.
Steele, F., Durrant, G.B. (2009). Alternative approaches to multilevel modelling of survey noncontact and refusal, presentation at the 7th International Amsterdam Multilevel Conference, Amsterdam, 8-10 April 2009.
Micklewright, J. (2008). Response to income questions in single question surveys, presentation at the 19th International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse, Slovenia, 15-17 Sep 2008.
Durrant, G.B. (2008). The effects of interviewer characteristics and attitudes on refusal in face-to-face surveys, presentation at the 19th International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse, Slovenia, 15-17 Sep 2008.
D’Arrigo, J., Durrant, G.B. (2008). Using paradata to develop hierarchical response propensity models, presentation at the 19th International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse, Slovenia, 15-17 Sep 2008.
Durrant, G.B. (2008). An investigation of interviewer effects on household nonresponse in six UK government surveys, 7th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Naples, 1-5 Sep 2008.
Micklewright, J. (2008). How big was response bias in England to PISA 2003, paper in a session on Administrative Data, NCRM Research Methods Festival, Oxford, July 2008.
Durrant, G.B. (2008). An exploration of the role of interviewers on survey nonresponse using a multilevel modelling approach, invited paper in a session on Survey Methods, NCRM Methods Festival, Oxford, 30 June-3 July 2008.
Skinner, C. (2007). Estimation of a distribution function from survey data with nonresponse’, seminar at the Institute of Statistics, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, 11 Dec 2007.
Skinner, C. (2007). Estimation of a distribution function under nonresponse using propensity score weighting, presentation at a workshop on Calibration and Estimation in Surveys, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, 31 Oct-1 Nov 2007.
Skinner, C. (2007). Analysing survey data where measurement and response behaviour is selective, presentation at the 18th International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse, Southampton, 3-5 Sep 2007.
Durrant, G.B. (2007). Using multilevel multinomial models to analyse household and interviewer effects in survey nonresponse, presentation at the 18th International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse, Southampton, 3-5 Sep 2007.