Understanding Society User Support

Dear Dana,

Thank you for your query. I have forwarded your question to the IP team and will get back to you soon.

Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team

Hi Dana,

As this is a longitudinal survey, we know that the households issued after the first wave are eligible (ineligible households are not issued to fieldwork). But we may come to know when the interviewer calls that they have become ineligible (e.g., because they died, emigrated, or are now part of a TSM-only splitoff household). These interview outcomes are all coded in w_ivfho in w_hhsamp file. So, using that information response rates are computed where these ineligible cases are not included in the denominator.

However, for cases where we cannot contact people or locate them we know that they were eligible but we do not know if they have since become ineligible (because they died or emigrated) and we can expect some of them have. We currently do not provide these estimates and the response rates reported in the user guide consider non-contacts, moved but location not known as non-response.

Hope this helps. If you have further questions please let us know.

To add, the response rate definition used to produce Tables 13.13. & 13.14 in the user guide is a modified version of AAPOR R2. Basically, UH & UO are included in the denominator (no e). But as we said earlier, this is a modified R2 as the response rate is computed for households that are fielded.