Jones, A.M., Koolman, X. and Rice, N. (2006) Health-related non-response in the BHPS and ECHP: using inverse probability weighted estimators in nonlinear models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Soceity: Series A (Statistics in Society), 169 (3). pp. 543-569. ISSN 0964-1998
Abstract
The paper considers health-related non-response in the first 11 waves of the British Household Panel Survey and the full eight waves of the European Community Household Panel and explores its consequences for dynamic models of the association between socioeconomic status and self-assessed health. We describe the pattern of health-related non-response that is revealed by the British Household Panel Survey and European Community Household Panel data. We both test and correct for non-response in empirical models of the effect of socioeconomic status on self-assessed health. Descriptive evidence shows that there is health-related non-response in the data, with those in very poor initial health more likely to drop out, and variable addition tests provide evidence of non-response bias in the panel data models of self-reported health. Nevertheless a comparison of estimates—based on the balanced sample, the unbalanced sample and corrected for non-response by using inverse probability weights—shows that, on the whole, there are not substantive differences in the average partial effects of the variables of interest. The main differences are between unweighted and one form of inverse-probability-weighted estimates for the average partial effects of income and education in those countries that have fewer than eight waves of data. Similar findings have been reported concerning the limited influence of non-response bias in models of various labour market outcomes; we discuss possible explanations for our results.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Depositing User: | York RAE Import |
Date Deposited: | 02 Apr 2009 15:41 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2009 15:41 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00399.x |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00399.x |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:6916 |