Publisher's Synopsis
This study provides a comprehensive review of the design, problems of implementation, and analytic uses of panel surveys. Its contributors, who are drawn from many disciplines, present a comparative evaluation of longitudinal studies, offering both general reviews and detailed discussion of methodological issues.;The book covers the areas of modes of data collection, statistical design and estimation, database management, sources of nonsampling error, panel conditioning, nonresponse adjustments, estimation of cross-sectional and change parameters,and modeling. The text will benefit social scientists, statisticians, and market or population researchers.
