Nonresponse in Organizational Surveys

该项目旨在改进我们的方法 了解如何做通用代表 组织调查。 为数不多的普通民众 已经完成并报告的部门组织调查 响应率往往有响应（或合作）率 明显低于百分之七十到七十五的 这是正常的一般人口调查， 个体 很可能是一些高水平的 组织调查中的无答复代表了 应用为土著居民开发的调查技术 个人到组织。 调查的应用 组织的方法必须掌握 组织和个人之间的差异。 该项目有两个目标。 一是 评估最终样本的代表性 与人口相比， 回应偏差的来源。 这些来源包括遗漏 从抽样框架和无反应的管理 调查或调查中的特定项目。 第二个目标 是发展组织调查无应答理论。 一旦构建了采样框架， 率是必不可少的，以近似 随机样本的特征，并确保人口 代表性。 预计组织特征 与调查和项目无应答相关的 可辨认的 目前，我们对非- 一般组织样本中的响应概率 对调查方法作出重大贡献 和组织研究似乎很高。

This project seeks to improve our methodological understanding of how to do generic representative organizational surveys. The few general population private sector organizational surveys which have been done and report response rates tend to have response (or cooperation) rates significantly lower than the seventy to seventy-five percent which is normal for general population surveys of individuals. It is likely that some of the high level of non-response in organizational surveys represents the application of survey techniques developed for populations of individuals to organizations. The application of survey methods to organizations must come to grips with the differences between organizations and individuals. The project has two objectives. The first is to evaluate the representativeness of a final sample of establishments relative to the population in terms of the sources of response bias. These sources include omissions from the sampling frame and non-response to the administered survey or to particular items on the survey. The second goal is to develop a theory of organizational survey non-response. Once a sampling frame has been constructed, high response rates are essential in order to approximate the characteristics of a random sample and to insure population representativeness. It is anticipated that organizational characteristics associated with survey and item non-response will be identifiable. Since, almost nothing is now known about non- response in general organizational samples the probabilities of making a significant contribution to survey methodology and organizational research appear to be high.