2014 Status of Forces Survey of Active Duty Members: Nonresponse Bias Analysis Report

Abstract

In 2006 the Office of Management and Budget recommended that a nonresponse bias (NRB) analysis be completed for any government survey with a response rate below 80 percent. The purpose of NRB analysis is to determine whether survey estimates are biased due to nonresponse of some sample members. The Defense Research, Surveys, and Statistics (RSSC) Division within the Office of People Analytics (OPA) conducted a series of statistical analyses to determine whether those who did not respond to the survey would have provided significantly different answers than those who did respond. Because the response rate for the 2014 Status of Forces Survey of Active Duty Military (2014 SOFS-A) was 21.3 percent based on the American Association of Public Opinion Research response rate calculation (AAPOR Response Rate 4), a NRB analysis was initiated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1072085

Entities

People

  • Ada Harris
  • David Mcgrath
  • Eric Falk
  • Jeffrey Schneider

Organizations

  • Office of People Analytics

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Air Force
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Demography
  • Education
  • Families (Human)
  • Information Science
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Knowledge Management
  • Military Personnel
  • Minority Groups
  • Sampling
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Surveys

Readers

  • Computer Programming and Software Development.
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.