Mostafa, T;
(2016)
Measuring the impact of residential mobility on response: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study.
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
, 7
(3)
pp. 201-217.
10.14301/llcs.v7i3.378.
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Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between residential mobility and unit non-response in the first five waves of the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). The objective is to ascertain whether home moves affect the likelihood of response and whether any impact persists over time. The existing literature is extended by examining the impact of moving home on the likelihood of returning to the survey after dropping out in a previous wave. The findings show that by the fifth wave of MCS more than two thirds of respondents had experienced at least one home move, with most moves happening before wave 2. Residential mobility is found to have a negative impact on subsequent response, even though this impact does not persist over time. Put differently, moving home is circumstantial and movers are likely to come back to the survey after being absent in a previous wave. The findings also shed light on the importance of tracing home movers in order to maintain the sample representativeness in a long-term longitudinal survey.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Measuring the impact of residential mobility on response: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14301/llcs.v7i3.378 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.14301/llcs.v7i3.378 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. All rights reserved. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. Further details about CC BY licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| Keywords: | Home moves, response, longitudinal survey, The UK Millennium Cohort Study. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1503970 |
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