Who Does Not Respond in the Social Survey: An Exercise in OLS and Gini Regressions

39 Pages Posted: 15 Mar 2011 Last revised: 15 Feb 2012

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Shlomo Yitzhaki

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Yolanda Golan

Israel Central Bureau of Statistics

Date Written: March 12, 2011

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze patterns of non-response in the social survey and to evaluate its effect on potential biases on satisfaction from life. An additional purpose is to apply the method of mixed regression, which combines the method of Ordinary Least Squares with Gini regression in the same estimation procedure in order to ensure that the conclusions reached do not depend on the regression methodology. The main conclusion is that young persons and ultra religious groups tend to have a lower participation in the survey and a high satisfaction from life. This in turn tends to bias satisfaction from life downward.

Keywords: non-response, Gini, OLS, satisfaction

JEL Classification: C39, C80

Suggested Citation

Yitzhaki, Shlomo and Golan, Yolanda, Who Does Not Respond in the Social Survey: An Exercise in OLS and Gini Regressions (March 12, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1784190 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1784190

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