HOW DEFINITIVE ARE CONCLUSIONS BASED ON SURVEY DATA: ESTIMATING ROBUSTNESS TO NONRESPONSE Academic Article

abstract

• The problem of nonresponse poses a threat to the external validity of survey conclusions. In this article, procedures are developed to estimate the robustness of survey conclusions to nonresponse by drawing an analogy between studies unavailable for metaanalysis and nonrespondents in a survey. We extended the procedure to assess the effects of systematic differences between respondents and nonrespondents on t and Fvalues used to test group differences. Steps to construct robustness tables that are independent of sample size, survey length, and scale width are outlined to determine how definitive conclusions are from survey data. Copyright 1993, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

authors

• Barrick, Murray

published proceedings

• Personnel Psychology

author list (cited authors)

• VISWESVARAN, C., BARRICK, M. R., & ONES, D. S.

citation count

• 33

complete list of authors

• VISWESVARAN, CHOCKALINGAM||BARRICK, MURRAY R||ONES, DENIZ S

publication date

• September 1993

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Personnel Psychology  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1993.tb00884.x

start page

• 551

end page

• 567

volume

• 46

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.1993.tb00884.x