<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This study examined item nonresponse and its respondent and interviewer correlates by means of a population-based, panel survey of children aged 8 to 11 who were surveyed using standardised, face-to-face interviews. Using multilevel, logistic analyses with cross-level interactions, this article aims to examine which effects of item nonresponse are subject to children as respondents or to the interviewers and the interview setting. Depending on the type of question, we found different effects for respondent and interviewer variables, as well as interaction effects between child age/interviewer age as well as child gender/interviewer gender. However, interviewer variance is for the most part not significant.</p></abstract>

This study examined item nonresponse and its respondent and interviewer correlates by means of a population-based, panel survey of children aged 8 to 11 who were surveyed using standardised, face-to-face interviews. Using multilevel, logistic analyses with cross-level interactions, this article aims to examine which effects of item nonresponse are subject to children as respondents or to the interviewers and the interview setting. Depending on the type of question, we found different effects for respondent and interviewer variables, as well as interaction effects between child age/interviewer age as well as child gender/interviewer gender. However, interviewer variance is for the most part not significant.

Item Nonresponse in Face-to-Face Interviews with Children

University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, School for Social Work, Riggenbachstr. 16, CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland

Journal of Official Statistics

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This study examined item nonresponse and its respondent and interviewer correlates by means of a population-based, panel survey of children aged 8 to 11 who...

Item Nonresponse in Face-to-Face Interviews with Children

Published Online: Sep 02, 2014

Page range: 459 - 477

Received: Mar 01, 2013

Accepted: Jun 01, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0029

Keywords
Panel survey, interviewer effects, interviewing children, item nonresponse, multilevel logistic analysis

© by Sigrid Haunberger

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Item Nonresponse in Face-to-Face Interviews with Children

Published Online: Sep 02, 2014

Page range: 459 - 477

Received: Mar 01, 2013

Accepted: Jun 01, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0029

KeywordsPanel survey, interviewer effects, interviewing children, item nonresponse, multilevel logistic analysis

© by Sigrid Haunberger

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Panel survey, interviewer effects, interviewing children, item nonresponse, multilevel logistic analysis