Paradata for coverage research

Abstract

"This chapter is organized by the types of frames currently used for surveys of households: housing unit frames, telephone frames, rosters of household members to select one at random to participate in the survey, population registers from which persons can be selected directly, and frames for web surveys. In each section, I review briefly what is known about the coverage properties of the frame and then go into detail about how paradata has been used to estimate coverage rates and coverage bias, or the kinds of paradata that have been found to be related to coverage. I also draw attention to experiments and other studies which have not themselves used paradata but which identify the paradata that can and should be collected. Many of the studies cited below are proceeding papers or unpublished presentations. The published literature makes little use of paradata, and this area is a clean opportunity for future research. I also point out opportunities for additional coverage research using existing paradata and new types of paradata that could be collected and used to study coverage." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Eckman, S. (2013): Paradata for coverage research. In: F. Kreuter (Hrsg.) (2013): Improving surveys with paradata : analytic uses of process information, p. 97-120.