Public Opinion Quarterly · 1981 · 105 citations · 1 references
Social SciencesAgricultural EconomicsBehavioral EconomicsDiscriminationPublic OpinionBiasResponse BiasSampling TheorySelection BiasSurvey ResearchSurvey SamplingNonresponse BiasResponse Bias AnalysisStandard Error EstimationSurvey Design BiasSurvey Nonresponse BiasSurvey QuestionsSurvey Response Bias
By separating respondents in a survey of farmers into those who refused to be interviewed and were converted, those who were hard to reach, and those who gave no problems, we can estimate nonresponse bias from refusers not converted and respondents not reached. We show that for attitude questions the refusal bias is serious, ranging from 2 to 4 percent on many attitudes, and very often larger than the standard error in surveys of ordinary size.
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