Abstract. The effect of survey questionnaire length on precision of survey statistics has been discussed in several studies. It is generally concluded that the lengthy questionnaire leads to increase non-sampling errors, especially nonresponse rate. Split questionnaire method has been introduced as a solution to decrease the response burden and nonresponse rate, involves splitting the questionnaire into subquestionnaires and then administering these subquestionnaires to different subsets of the original sample. In this paper, we suggest a method for splitting long questionnaire and analyzing resulting data, using small area estimation. The general idea behind this approach is to construct some socio-demographic or geographic small areas to apply small area estimation to improve the efficiency of survey statistics. Our new approach is supported by a simulation study based on a real dataset of the 2011 Iran Income and Expenditure survey, in which we show our method provides more reliable statistics than existing methods.
There are many methods for analyzing longitudinal ordinal response data with random dropout. These include maximum likelihood (ML), weighted estimating equations (WEEs), and multiple imputations (MI). In this article, using a Markov model where the effect of previous response on the current response is investigated as an ordinal variable, the likelihood is partitioned to simplify the use of existing software. Simulated data, generated to present a three-period longitudinal study with random dropout, are used to compare performance of ML, WEE, and MI methods in terms of standardized bias and coverage probabilities. These estimation methods are applied to a real medical data set.
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