Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
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ALSWH: What can we learn from no contact?

Approved: 2008

Collaborators:

  • Ms Jennifer Powers
  • Dr Meredith Tavener
  • Mrs Anna Graves

Synopsis

People who cannot be contacted during a survey are often excluded from the study sample on the understanding that they are not different from the rest of the sample. In an attempt to determine whether this is valid we have used longitudinal data from surveys of the 1973-78 cohort to describe differences between women who could or could not be contacted at the second survey of the 1973-78 cohort. A paper is currently being written.