WITHDRAWN Annual Business Survey Nonresponse Bias Analysis

Music City Center 

The Annual Business Survey (ABS), conducted jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, provides information on selected economic and demographic characteristics of businesses and business owners by sex, ethnicity, race, and veteran status. The survey also measures research and development for microbusinesses, business topics such as innovation and technology, as well as other business characteristics. This study analyzes the systematic differences among survey respondents and nonrespondents along with the potential bias due to nonresponse. The effects of nonresponse on a survey are of interest because they have potential to add errors to the survey estimates. The analysis studies the association between sample frame variables and key response items, survey response rates, mean differences between the respondents and the nonrespondents on key items, and relative nonresponse bias between the respondents and the nonrespondents.

Respondents, nonrespondents, frame variables, variable associations, relative bias. 

Government Statistics Section