<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Despite increasing efforts during data collection, nonresponse remains sizeable in many household surveys. Statistical adjustment is hence unavoidable. By reweighting the design, weights of the respondents are adjusted to compensate for nonresponse. However, there is no consensus on how this should be carried out in general. Theoretical comparisons are inconclusive in the literature, and the associated simulation studies involve hypothetical situations not all equally relevant to reality. In this article we evaluate the three most common reweighting approaches in practice, based on real data in Norway from the two largest household surveys in the European Statistical System. We demonstrate how cross- examination of various reweighting estimators can help inform the effectiveness of the available auxiliary variables and the choice of the weight adjustment method.</p></abstract>

Despite increasing efforts during data collection, nonresponse remains sizeable in many household surveys. Statistical adjustment is hence unavoidable. By reweighting the design, weights of the respondents are adjusted to compensate for nonresponse. However, there is no consensus on how this should be carried out in general. Theoretical comparisons are inconclusive in the literature, and the associated simulation studies involve hypothetical situations not all equally relevant to reality. In this article we evaluate the three most common reweighting approaches in practice, based on real data in Norway from the two largest household surveys in the European Statistical System. We demonstrate how cross- examination of various reweighting estimators can help inform the effectiveness of the available auxiliary variables and the choice of the weight adjustment method.

An Appraisal of Common Reweighting Methods for Nonresponse in Household Surveys Based on the Norwegian Labour Force Survey and the Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Survey

Department of Social Statistics and Demography

Journal of Official Statistics

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Despite increasing efforts during data collection, nonresponse remains sizeable in many household surveys. Statistical adjustment is hence unavoidable. By...

An Appraisal of Common Reweighting Methods for Nonresponse in Household Surveys Based on the Norwegian Labour Force Survey and the Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Survey

Published Online: Mar 17, 2020

Page range: 151 - 172

Received: Jan 01, 2018

Accepted: Nov 01, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2020-0008

Keywords
Unit nonresponse, auxiliary variable selection: inverse propensity weighting, generalised regression estimation, doubly robust estimation

© 2020 Nancy Duong Nguyen et al., published by Sciendo

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

An Appraisal of Common Reweighting Methods for Nonresponse in Household Surveys Based on the Norwegian Labour Force Survey and the Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Survey

Published Online: Mar 17, 2020

Page range: 151 - 172

Received: Jan 01, 2018

Accepted: Nov 01, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2020-0008

KeywordsUnit nonresponse, auxiliary variable selection: inverse propensity weighting, generalised regression estimation, doubly robust estimation

© 2020 Nancy Duong Nguyen et al., published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
Unit nonresponse, auxiliary variable selection: inverse propensity weighting, generalised regression estimation, doubly robust estimation