RESPONDENT TENDENCIES FOR NONRESPONSE AND RESPONSE ERROR

研究人员建议分析健康与退休研究（MRS）的受访者在回答相关问题时的无应答和应答错误的倾向，以及整个仪器的倾向。调查的目的是了解某些类型的受访者是否倾向于系统地提供不准确或不完整的信息。他们的目的是提高研究人员使用MRS的能力，同时认识到一些受访者的记录是不完整的，可能是错误的。他们将探讨通过修改问卷的设计可以在多大程度上减轻数据质量问题。虽然本研究的重点是MRS，但以被调查者为分析单位研究数据质量的主题， 在调查研究中的普遍适用性。

The investigators propose to analyze tendencies of respondents to the Health and Retirement Study (MRS) for nonresponse and response errors in answering related questions, as well as across the instrument as a whole. They aim to learn whether certain types of respondents tend to systematically provide inaccurate or incomplete information. They aim to improve the ability of researchers to use the MRS while recognizing that some respondent records are incomplete and possibly error ridden. They will explore the extent to which data quality problems can be mitigated by modifying the design of the questionnaire. Although this research focuses on the MRS, the theme of taking the respondent as the unit of analysis for study of data quality has general applicability in survey research.