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February 2005

The problem of respondent attrition: survey methodology is key

Randall J. Olsen

Longitudinal surveys will suffer from attrition and nothing will change that; however, years of lessons learned in the field show that straightforward survey methodology can minimize the impact of losing respondents.

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