The Impact of Nonresponse Rates on Nonresponse Bias: A Meta-Analysis
2008/05/02 by Robert M. Groves, R. M. Groves, E. Peytcheva +1 · 1,438 citations
Health Professions · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Computer science #Econometrics #Economics #History #Law #Library science #Mathematics #Medicine #Meta-analysis #Non-response bias #Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare #Political science #Politics #Psychology #Public opinion #Regional science #Risk Perception and Management #Sociology #Statistics
paper · doi:10.1093/poq/nfn011
published in Public Opinion Quarterly 72(2), 167-189 (Oxford University Press)
openalex publication_date 2008/05/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Abstract
Fifty-nine methodological studies were designed to estimate the magnitude of nonresponse bias in statistics of interest. These studies use a variety of designs: sampling frames with rich variables, data from administrative records matched to sample case, use of screening-interview data to describe nonrespondents to main interviews, followup of nonrespondents to initial phases of field effort, and measures of behavior intentions to respond to a survey. This permits exploration of which circumstances produce a relationship between nonresponse rates and nonresponse bias and which, do not. The predictors are design features of the surveys, characteristics of the sample, and attributes of the survey statistics computed in the surveys.
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