Twelve-year follow-up of respondents in a sample survey in Peninsular Malaysia
Haaga, J.; Davanzo, J.; Peterson, C.; Tey, N.P.
Asia-Pacific Population Journal 9(2): 61-72
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0259-238X PMID: 12288227 Document Number: 319379
"This note reports the experience of an attempt to find and re-interview in late 1988 and early 1989, as part of the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS-2), the female respondents to the 1976-77 Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS-1) and a sample of their adult children aged 18 or older.... We discuss the field methods used to track the panel members and their adult children, report follow-up rates and analyze the selectivity of attrition from the panel, using data from the MFLS-1 on characteristics of both the missing and the re-interviewed respondents and their families. We then discuss the degree to which these results might be generalized to other such attempts at re-contacting survey respondents."