A new look at the determinants of nonnumerical response to desired family size : the case of Costa Rica

Año de publicación

1993

UUID

c23b8ae9-c7f1-475c-824f-dab2edbe8393

Resumen

High levels of nonresponse or inappropriate response to items are a persistent concern in survey research because those who do not answer may not be representative of the study population. Thus nonresponse introduces potential bias in the point estimates as well as in multivariate analyses, which use the responses in question as either an independent or a dependent variable. Researchers often have little recourse but to form a "don't know” or "not available" category from the failure to respond (or to be responsive). They must either omit these cases, treat them as a separate category, or impute a value on the basis of other characteristics of the respondent (Croft 1991; Kalton and Kasprzyk 1986).

Publicador

Demography, Vol. 30, no. 2

Enlace del origen de la publicación

Documentación restringida

No

Tipo de publicación

Article

Descriptores

• COSTA RICA
• FAMILIA
• TAMAÑO DE LA FAMILIA
• TAMAÑO DESEADO DE LA FAMILIA