Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/244424 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 5/2006
Publisher: 
Örebro University School of Business, Örebro
Abstract: 
Virtually every survey today suffers from nonresponse to some extent. To counter this, survey administrators and researchers have a host of methods at their disposal, many of which are both expensive and time consuming. Reduction efforts, aiming at reducing the nonresponse rate, are an important part of the data collection process, but commonly also a substantial part of the available survey budget. We propose that the effciency of the reduction efforts be evaluated in relation to the costs. In this paper we point in the direction of an evaluation procedure, using a measure of cost effciency, that can be used in an "ideal" situation, where all relevant quantities are known. It can not be applied directly in practice, but will serve as a point of reference when practically feasible approaches are developed.
Subjects: 
resource allocation
cost efficiency
evaluation
nonresponse error
data collection
JEL: 
C13
C14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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