Quality and Quantity: Tackling Non-Contact Attrition in a Longitudinal Survey

In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 275-284

Abstract

This research note describes some of the methods of reducing non-contact attrition used in the Scottish Young People's Surveys, and suggests that the type of attrition reduction method used can affect the quality of the survey sample.