This presentation provides a holistic evaluation of the quality of the data collected in the 2022 wave of the Health and Retirement Study, applying the total survey error perspective for assessing data quality outlined in West and Wagner (2025). Overall, the results...
This presentation outlines the core elements of a proposed data quality profile, assessing the overall quality of a given survey based on multiple quantitative and qualitative components of the total survey error framework. The presentation considers past efforts to...
This report provides a holistic evaluation of the quality of the data collected in the 2022 wave of the Health and Retirement Study, applying the total survey error perspective for assessing data quality outlined in Wagner and West (2025). Overall, the report suggests...
Surveys are experiencing declining response rates. With more and more effort expended to combat these declining response rates, the cost of large-scale surveys has continued to rise. Stopping rules are one of the interventions used to improve the efficiency of data...
The study demonstrates that higher perceived burden of panel survey participants, especially in earlier waves, is a much stronger predictor of attrition in subsequent waves than item nonresponse, providing support for existing theories of respondent burden in the...
