Missing Data in Sociological Research: An Overview of Recent Trends and an Illustration for Controversial Questions, Active Nonrespondents and Targeted Samples
Missing Data in Sociological Research: An Overview of Recent Trends and an Illustration for Controversial Questions, Active Nonrespondents and Targeted Samples
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社会学研究中的缺失数据：近期趋势概述以及有争议问题、主动非受访者和目标样本的说明
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2012
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E. Ecklund
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J. Porter;E. Ecklund
在一个充斥着电话推销员、垃圾邮件和弹出式广告的时代，社会学家们发现，要想在调查中获得高回复率越来越困难。使这些问题更加复杂的是，当前的政治和社会气候降低了许多调查受访者回答有争议问题的可能性，而这些问题往往是该学科许多研究的核心。在这里，我们讨论这样的社会学调查研究的影响使用：对顶级社会学期刊中引用最多的文章中缺失数据和调查研究方法的普遍性进行内容分析，通过驱动学术科学家宗教数据集中非随机缺失数据模式的潜在机制的示例，强调提取有意义的信息的案例研究，以及同一病例中无应答者的定性反应。鉴于社会学研究中调查研究、缺失数据和隐私问题的普遍存在，影响的重要性可能会增加。
In an age of telemarketers, spam emails, and pop-up advertisements, sociologists are finding it increasingly difficult to achieve high response rates for their surveys. Compounding these issues, the current political and social climate has decreased many survey respondents’ likelihood of responding to controversial questions, which are often at the heart of much research in the discipline. Here we discuss such implications for survey research in sociology using: a content analysis of the prevalence of missing data and survey research methods in the most cited articles in top sociology journals, a case study highlighting the extraction of meaningful information through an example of potential mechanisms driving the non-random missing data patterns in the Religion Among Academic Scientists dataset, and qualitative responses from non-responders in this same case. Implications are likely to increase in importance given the ubiquitous nature of survey research, missing data, and privacy concerns in sociological research.