Titel
Reaching the unreachables: A panel survey among unemployed young adults in Austria and recommendations on how to decrease nonresponse and attrition
Autor*in
Nadia Steiber
Institut für Höhere Studien
Abstract
Survey response rates are especially low among young people, those with low levels of formal education and those who are not well integrated into society. These effects are amplified in panel studies, where similar factors influence the propensity of continued participation in survey waves. As a result, conducting a panel study on young, unemployed people is particularly challenging. The paper describes the difficulties associated with selection effects and panel mortality in this particular group and the remedies applied in the JuSAW project, where we conducted a panel survey among young adults aged 18-28 who became unemployed between May and September 2014. Based on our experiences and a detailed analysis of sample balance and panel stability, we develop recommendations for future studies.
Stichwort
panel surveydifficult target groupsnonresponseattrition
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
Erschienen in
Titel
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
Band
47
Ausgabe
2
Publication
Universitaet Innsbruck - Innsbruck University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Zugänglichkeit
Rechte
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