Peter Lynn is Professor of Survey Methodology at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex. He is responsible for the methodological research programme of the UK Longitudinal Studies Centre and the UK Household Longitudinal Study and has over 20 years of experience in the field of survey methodology.

Preface.

1. Methods for Longitudinal Surveys (Peter Lynn).

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2. Sample Design for Longitudinal Surveys (Paul Smith, Peter Lynn and Dave Elliot).

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3. Ethical Issues in Longitudinal Surveys (Carli Lessof).

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4. Enhancing Longitudinal Surveys by Linking to Administrative Data (Lisa Calderwood and Carli Lessof).

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5. Tackling Seam Bias Through Questionnaire Design (Jeffrey Moore, Nancy Bates, Joanne Pascale and Aniekan Okon).

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6. Dependent Interviewing: A Framework and Application.

to Current Research (Annette Jäckle).

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7. Attitudes Over Time: The Psychology of Panel Conditioning (Patrick Sturgis, Nick Allum and Ian Brunton-Smith).

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8. Some Consequences of Survey Mode Changes in Longitudinal Surveys (Don A. Dillman).

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9. Using Auxiliary Data for Adjustment in Longitudinal Research (Dirk Sikkel, Joop Hox and Edith de Leeuw).

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10. Identifying Factors Affecting Longitudinal Survey Response (Nicole Watson and Mark Wooden).

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11. Keeping in Contact with Mobile Sample Members (Mick P. Couper and Mary Beth Ofstedal).

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12. The Use of Respondent Incentives on Longitudinal Surveys (Heather Laurie and Peter Lynn).

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13. Attrition in Consumer Panels (Robert D. Tortora).

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14. Joint Treatment of Nonignorable Dropout and Informative Sampling.

for Longitudinal Survey Data (Abdulhakeem A. H. Eideh and Gad Nathan).

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15. Weighting and Calibration for Household Panels (Ulrich Rendtel and Torsten Harms).

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16. Statistical Modelling for Structured Longitudinal Designs (Ian Plewis).

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17. Using Longitudinal Surveys to Evaluate Interventions (Andrea Piesse, David Judkins and Graham Kalton).

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18. Robust Likelihood-Based Analysis of Longitudinal Survey Data with Missing Values (Roderick Little and Guangyu Zhang).

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19. Assessing the Temporal Association of Events Using Longitudinal Complex Survey Data (Norberto Pantoja-Galicia, Mary E. Thompson and Milorad).

S. Kovacevic.

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20. Using Marginal Mean Models for Data from Longitudinal Surveys with a Complex Design: Some Advances in Methods (Georgia Roberts, Qunshu Ren and J.N.K. Rao).

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21. A Latent Class Approach for Estimating Gross Flows in the Presence of Correlated Classification Errors (Francesca Bassi and Ugo Trivellato).

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22. A Comparison of Graphical Models and Structural Equation Models.

for the Analysis of Longitudinal Survey Data )Peter W. F. Smith, Ann Berrington and Patrick Sturgis).

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Index.