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Title: Comparing Response Rates for the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD), Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)
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1. Hernandez, Donald J.
Comparing Response Rates for the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD), Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)
SPD Working Paper SPD99-2, Internal memorandum, U.S. Bureau of the Census, January 28, 1999.
Also: http://www.bls.census.gov/spd/workpaper/spd-comp.htm
Cohort(s): NLS General, NLSY79
Publisher: U.S. Department of Commerce
Keyword(s): Attrition; Data Quality/Consistency; Nonresponse; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD); Welfare

The usefulness of data from any longitudinal or panel study that follows and interviews the same respondents over a period of years depends on the assumption that the data represent the relevant populations. Nonresponse by members of the sample is a potential source of bias that can undermine the quality of estimates derived using longitudinal data. This memorandum compares overall response rates between the initial interview and the most recent interview for three major national surveys, the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD) conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) conducted by the Center for Human Resource Research at Ohio State University. It also discusses major differences across the surveys in the approaches used to maximize long-run response rates, and the consequences of differential nonresponse for data quality.
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Hernandez, Donald J. "Comparing Response Rates for the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD), Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)." SPD Working Paper SPD99-2, Internal memorandum, U.S. Bureau of the Census, January 28, 1999.