Nonresponse Rates and Nonresponse Bias in Household Surveys

Groves, Robert M.

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“…The response rates in CHIS were low, which might bias our results if responders and non-responders differed from each other with respect to CVD risk profiles and other characteristics. However, low survey response rates do not necessarily indicate a large amount of nonresponse error [66][67][68][69][70]. Data from self-report surveys may be inaccurate due to recall bias, social desirability bias, and respondents' lack of knowledge [71].…”

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The Association of Duration of Residence in the United States with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among South Asian Immigrants

Bharmal

Kaplan

Shapiro

et al. 2014

J Immigrant Minority Health

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The Association of Duration of Residence in the United States with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among South Asian Immigrants

Bharmal

Kaplan

Shapiro

et al. 2014

J Immigrant Minority Health

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“…4,22 A metaanalysis of studies of nonresponse bias found no consistent relationship between a survey's nonresponse rate and nonresponse bias. 23 Nevertheless, it is important to be aware of the possibility of bias and use available information to adjust results so that nonresponse does not result in biased comparisons.…”

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Should Health Care Providers be Accountable for Patients’ Care Experiences?

Price

Elliott

Cleary³

et al. 2014

J GEN INTERN MED

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Measures of patients' care experiences are increasingly used as quality measures in accountability initiatives. As the prominence and financial impact of patient experience measures have increased, so too have concerns about the relevance and fairness of including them as indicators of health care quality. Using evidence from the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) surveys, the most widely used patient experience measures in the United States, we address seven common critiques of patient experience measures: (1) consumers do not have the expertise needed to evaluate care quality; (2) patient "satisfaction" is subjective and thus not valid or actionable; (3) increasing emphasis on improving patient experiences encourages health care providers and plans to fulfill patient desires, leading to care that is inappropriate, ineffective, and/or inefficient; (4) there is a trade-off between providing good patient experiences and providing high-quality clinical care; (5) patient scores cannot be fairly compared across health care providers or plans due to factors beyond providers' control; (6) response rates to patient experience surveys are low, or responses reflect only patients with extreme experiences; and (7) there are faster, cheaper, and more customized ways to survey patients than the standardized approaches mandated by federal accountability initiatives.

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“…Although the response rates for the telephone surveys are lower than those often seen in face-to-face surveys, they are typical for recent random-digit dial telephone surveys in the US, 45 and do not necessarily produce biased population estimates. 46,47 For this study, NAS data were geocoded and matched with indicators of neighborhood SES from the 2000 Census. 48 Respondent addresses were geocoded by a commercial firm (97 % accuracy rate).…”

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Neighborhood Disadvantage, High Alcohol Content Beverage Consumption, Drinking Norms, and Drinking Consequences: A Mediation Analysis

Jones‐Webb

Karriker‐Jaffe

2013

J Urban Health

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Alcohol use can cause significant harm. We examined the relationships between neighborhood disadvantage, consumption of high-alcohol-content beverages (HACB), drinking norms, and self-reported drinking consequences using data from the 2000 and 2005 National Alcohol Surveys (N09,971 current drinkers) and the 2000 Decennial Census. We hypothesized that (1) individuals living in disadvantaged neighborhoods would report more negative drinking consequences than individuals living in more affluent neighborhoods, and (2) this relationship would be mediated by HACB consumption and pro-drunkenness drinking norms. Neighborhood disadvantage was based on a composite measure of socioeconomic indicators from the 2000 Decennial Census (five-item composite, alpha00.89). We measured high alcohol content beverage consumption in terms of whether respondents engaged in frequent or heavy consumption of malt liquor, fortified wine, or distilled spirits/liquor. The outcome was a dichotomous indicator of two or more of 15 past-year social, legal, work, and health consequences. Simultaneous, multivariate path modeling tested direct and indirect effects of neighborhood disadvantage, HACB consumption, and prodrunkenness norms on consequences. Individuals living in disadvantaged neighborhoods reported significantly more negative drinking consequences than individuals living in more affluent neighborhoods. Consumption of high-alcoholcontent beverages and pro-drunkenness norms did not mediate this relationship. However, heavy distilled spirits/liquor use was a significant mediator of other neighborhood characteristics (i.e., percent African American). Living in an African American neighborhood was related to increased spirits/liquor consumption and, in turn, reporting more negative drinking consequences. Greater scrutiny of advertising and tax policies related to distilled spirits/liquor is needed to prevent future drinking problems, especially in minority neighborhoods.

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Nonresponse Rates and Nonresponse Bias in Household Surveys

Cited by 2,023 publications

References 32 publications

The Association of Duration of Residence in the United States with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among South Asian Immigrants

The Association of Duration of Residence in the United States with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among South Asian Immigrants

Should Health Care Providers be Accountable for Patients’ Care Experiences?

Neighborhood Disadvantage, High Alcohol Content Beverage Consumption, Drinking Norms, and Drinking Consequences: A Mediation Analysis

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