title: Twelve-year follow-up of respondents in a sample survey in Peninsular Malaysia.
abstract: "This note reports the experience of an attempt to find and re-interview in late 1988 and early 1989, as part of the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS-2), the female respondents to the 1976-77 Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS-1) and a sample of their adult children aged 18 or older.... We discuss the field methods used to track the panel members and their adult children, report follow-up rates and analyze the selectivity of attrition from the panel, using data from the MFLS-1 on characteristics of both the missing and the re-interviewed respondents and their families.  We then discuss the degree to which these results might be generalized to other such attempts at re-contacting survey respondents."
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haaga
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Davanzo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.forename: N P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Tey
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001210:Asia, Southeastern; D003625:Data Collection; D003906:Developing Countries; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008296:Malaysia; D012494:Sampling Studies
keywords: Asia; Data Collection; Developing Countries; Follow-up Studies; Interviews; Malaysia; Sampling Studies; Southeastern Asia; Studies; Survey Methodology; Surveys