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Item nonresponse

Term · Economic statistics · MLC-T-ECS-001004

  1. Nonresponse in which a survey respondent answers some, but not all, questions or provides incomplete information in answering questions.

    Note: Item nonresponse is a source of nonsampling error.

    See imputation.

  2. Occurs when some but not all data have been collected for the respondent.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ECS-001004
FieldEconomic statistics
ReferencesBLS Glossary; U.S. Census Bureau Glossary
See alsoImputation
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-001004",
  "term": "Item nonresponse",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definitions": [
    "Nonresponse in which a survey respondent answers some, but not all, questions or provides incomplete information in answering questions.\n\nNote: Item nonresponse is a source of nonsampling error.\n\nSee imputation.",
    "Occurs when some but not all data have been collected for the respondent."
  ],
  "see_also": [
    "Imputation"
  ],
  "references": [
    "BLS Glossary",
    "U.S. Census Bureau Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/item-nonresponse/"
}

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