Nonresponse Bias and Business Turnover Rates: The Case of the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
研究企业主特征调查中的无应答问题，利用多业主企业信息推断无应答者更可能终止经营，并量化忽略无应答的影响。
Abstract This article considers the problem of nonresponse in the Characteristics of Business Owners survey. It presents a novel approach for assessing the extent to which nonresponse is nonignorable. The method exploits the fact that all of the owners of multiowner firms were surveyed. The article uses information received from a responding owner to derive inferences about a nonresponding owner of the same firm. It provides evidence that nonrespondents are more likely than respondents to discontinue ownership. The article estimates a variety of models of the joint process of ownership survival and survey response and quantifies the effects of ignoring nonresponse. KEY WORDS: Business discontinuanceBusiness survivalNonignorable nonresponse