title: A comparison of the census characteristics of respondents and non-respondents to the 1981 General Household Survey (GHS).
abstract: "The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of non-response on the representiveness of the GHS [General Household Survey] achieved sample by comparing respondents and non-respondents to the 1981 GHS in terms of their characteristics as recorded in the 1981 [United Kingdom] Census of Population."  The predominant finding is that "households containing dependent children and individuals in age-groups most often found in such households were over-represented in the sample and non-family households and individuals in some of the older age-groups under-represented."
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authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rauta
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D019352:Censuses; D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D005060:Europe; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005191:Family Characteristics; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D012494:Sampling Studies; D015983:Selection Bias; D006113:United Kingdom