Quality and Quantity: Tackling Non-Contact Attrition in a Longitudinal Survey
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociology
- Vol. 23 (2) , 275-284
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038589023002008
Abstract
This research note describes some of the methods of reducing non-contact attrition used in the Scottish Young People's Surveys, and suggests that the type of attrition reduction method used can affect the quality of the survey sample.Keywords
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