• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Attrition in longitudinal household survey data : some tests for three developing-country samples
  • Contributor: Alderman, Harold [Author]; Alderman, Harold [Other]
  • Corporation: World Bank, Development Research Group, Rural Development
  • imprint: Washington, DC: World Bank, Development Research Group, Rural Development, [2000]
    Online-Ausg.
  • Published in: Policy research working paper ; 2447
  • Extent: Online-Ressource
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Demographic surveys Longitudinal studies Developing countries ; Household surveys Longitudinal studies Developing countries ; Multivariate analysis ; Social sciences Research
  • Reproductino series: World Bank E-Library Archive
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Reproduction note: Also available in print
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: "September 2000"--Cover
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-26)
    Title from title screen as viewed on Oct. 09, 2002
  • Description: Results from this study of the extent and implications of attrition for three longitudinal household surveys from Bolivia, Kenya, and South Africa suggest that multivariate estimates of behavioral relations may not be biased because of high attrition. This suggests that demographers and other social scientists can proceed with collecting longitudinal data to control for unobserved fixed factors and to capture dynamic relationships