Nonresponse Bias and Business Turnover Rates: The Case of the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
无应答偏差与企业更替率：企业主特征调查案例
This article considers the problem of nonresponse in the Characteristics of Business Owners survey. It presents a novel approach for assessing the extent to which nonresponse is nonignorable. The method exploits the fact that all of the owners of multiowner firms were surveyed. The article uses information received from a responding owner to derive inferences about a nonresponding owner of the same firm. It provides evidence that nonrespondents are more likely than…