Attrition in Panel Data: The Effectiveness of Weighting

Education and health in Europe

“…This evidence strongly suggests that mortality and worsening health conditions are likely to be the main cause of nonresponses. For a similar approach on the attrition weighting procedure see, among others, Raab et al (2005), Nicoletti and Peracchi (2005) and Vandecasteele and Debels (2007).…”

The first KiGGS follow-up (KiGGS Wave 1)

“…Zum anderen müssen die Gewichtungsvariablen mit den interessierenden Zielvariablen korrelieren [ 33 , 45 , 46 ], und die Verzerrung darf nicht zu stark sein, damit keine unrealistisch hohen Gewichte entstehen [ 33 ]. Auch Wiederteilnahmegewichte zum Ausgleich der longitudinalen Ausfälle werden in vielen Studien verwendet [SOEP [ 44 ], GLES [ 43 ], Swiss Household Panel [ 47 ], European Community Household Panel (ECHP) [ 48 ]]. Diese Methoden sind auch in der statistischen Literatur ausführlich beschrieben [ 49 -52 ].…”

Attrition in the Austrian Generations and Gender Survey

“…An overview of the literature suggests that the field phase situation is also an important predictor of cooperation (Vandecasteele and Debels 2007). The interviewerrespondent interaction is crucial, with persons contacted by the same interviewer as in the previous wave being more willing to cooperate again (Behr, Bellgardt, and Rendtel 2003;Groves and Couper 1998;Hox and de Leeuw 2002) and there is a correlation between educational level of interviewer and response rate (Albacete et al 2012).…”