An Empirical Analysis of the Association between Neighbourhood Income and Unit Nonresponse in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
28 Pages Posted: 28 Sep 2009 Last revised: 4 Oct 2009
Date Written: September 1, 2009
Abstract
This paper estimates associations between individual and neighbourhood characteristics and unit nonresponse in a survey of the population aged 50 and over in the Netherlands in 2004. The statistical model includes interviewer fixed effects to control for the non-random distribution of addresses over interviewers. The empirical analysis shows that, relatively to individuals living in apartments, there is a lower unit nonresponse among individuals living in houses and a higher unit nonresponse among individuals living in old age institutions. Unit nonresponse is positively associated with the size of a city. No age and gender effects are found. Unit nonresponse is about 25% lower among individuals in the top than among individuals in the bottom of the distribution of neighbourhood average income. This latter result implies that the response sample is biased towards individuals living in the more wealthy neighbourhoods.
Keywords: household survey, unit nonresponse, discrete choice model, income
JEL Classification: C8, C35, C42
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