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Alternative Corrections for Sample Truncation: Applications to the 1988, 1990, and 1992 Senate Election Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

John Brehm
John Brehm*
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Duke University
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Abstract

High levels of nonresponse plague all three waves of the National Election Studies' Senate Studies. Each of the studies failed to elicit interviews from close to one of every two selected sample persons, a rate far worse than the NES regular Pre- and Post-Election Studies. This paper addresses three interdependent problems: Given limited data about the nonrespondents, how can we model the causes of nonresponse? Using these models, how can we adjust our analysis of the Senate Study data to compensate for nonresponse? What difference does nonresponse make for our understanding of the dynamics of Senate elections?

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Research Article
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Political Analysis , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , 16 December 1999 , pp. 183 - 199
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Copyright © 1999 by the Society for Political Methodology 

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