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Title: Attrition and The National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience: Avoidance, Control and Correction
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Rhoton, Patricia |
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Attrition and The National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience: Avoidance, Control and Correction Report, Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1984. Also: http://www.nlsinfo.org/usersvc/NLS_Women/Rhoton-Attrition-Feb1984.pdf Cohort(s): NLS General Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research Keyword(s): Attrition; Census of Population; Control; Longitudinal Surveys The NLS cohorts of Older Men, Mature Women, Young Women, and Young Men have been interviewed since the 1960's by the Bureau of the Census; the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) conducts interviews with the NLSY that was begun in 1979. Several attrition problems have been identified and solved based on this extensive experience with interviewing the same individuals over a long period. Over five years, NORC achieved a better than 95 percent retention rate with the youth cohort. Because the Young Men's cohort, begun in 1966, had the highest attrition rate (largely due to the Vietnam War), a special effort was made in 1981 to relocate non-respondents in this cohort, and 37 percent of a previously lost subsample were found. A new rule guiding Census interviewers for the older 1960s cohorts is that no respondents are to be dropped unless they are known to be dead. Studies of attrition conducted in the late 1970s show that all the NLS cohorts were still nationally-representative as of that time. |
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Rhoton, Patricia. "Attrition and The National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience: Avoidance, Control and Correction." Report, Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1984. |