caa a22 4500 477138772 CHVBK 20180405111726.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19970401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1024985704202 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1024985704202 Dey Eric Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan, 2117 School of Education Building, 48109-1259, Ann Arbor, MI aut Working with Low Survey Response Rates: The Efficacy of Weighting Adjustments [Elektronische Daten] [Eric Dey] National data show a continuing decline in the willingness of people to respond to surveys. This trend is troubling given the central role that survey research plays in collecting data for institutional research purposes. This paper examines the effectiveness of a weighting procedure described by Astin and Molm for adjusting survey results to correct for nonresponse bias. Using data from a Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) follow-up survey, the results indicate that the weighting procedure is highly effective at reducing nonresponse bias in univariate distributions. The effectiveness of the weighting procedure in adjusting correlation and regression analyses is less clear. This may be due in part to the observation that even when individual variables are noticeably biased, their relationships with each other tend not to be. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1997 Research in Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 38/2(1997-04-01), 215-227 0361-0365 38:2<215 1997 38 11162 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024985704202 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024985704202 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dey Eric Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan, 2117 School of Education Building, 48109-1259, Ann Arbor, MI aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Research in Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 38/2(1997-04-01), 215-227 0361-0365 38:2<215 1997 38 11162 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer