The handling of nonresponse error Academic Article

abstract

• This study was designed to describe and explore how nonresponse in Human Resource Development Quarterly (HRDQ) historically has been handled. All feature and article manuscripts (n = 158) published in HRDQ during the years 1990 through 1999 were analyzed using content analysis techniques. Study findings show that not mentioning nonresponse error as a threat to external validity of a study, not attempting to control for nonresponse error, or not providing a reference to the literature were unfortunately the norm and not the exception. Four recommendations for handling nonresponse error are comparison of early to late respondents, using days to respond as a regression variable, comparing respondents to nonrespondents, and comparing respondents on characteristics known a priori. Copyright 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

authors

• Dooley, Larry

published proceedings

• Human Resource Development Quarterly

author list (cited authors)

• Dooley, L. M., & Lindner, J. R.

citation count

• 99

complete list of authors

• Dooley, Larry M||Lindner, James R

publication date

• January 2003

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Human Resource Development Quarterly  Journal

keywords

• 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services
• 3504 Commercial Services

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/hrdq.1052

start page

• 99

end page

• 110

volume

• 14

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.1052