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Title The Propensity of Older Respondents to Participate in a General Purpose Survey
Author Lynn, P.
Year 2012
Access date 21.01.2013
Abstract

This paper, 1) outlines some of the challenges in obtaining participation from older sample members in a survey that is not specifically tailored to older people, 2) provides evidence of the relative response propensity of older people in such a survey and, 3) provides experimental evidence of potential influences on age-related response propensity. Specifically, we analyse differences between younger and older sample members in response propensity to each of a number  of components of the Understanding Society survey and we examine the interaction between respondent age and each of two experimentally-manipulated features of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel.

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Year of publication2012
Bibliographic typeReports, seminars
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