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Using Total Representativeness Rates Alongside Response Rates__SHPRC Research Short Notes (2025)
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The Survey & Health Policy Research Center (SHPRC) Research Short Notes is a valuable resource for conducting surveys or writing research papers. |
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This article was published in August 2024 and is available at https://shprc.dongguk.edu/ article/reports/list. It was updated in September 2024, with the most recent update occurring in September 2025. |
Using Total Representativeness Rates Alongside Response Rates
Sunwoong Kim
Introduction
For more than two decades, the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) response rates (RR1-RR6), the number of complete interviews divided by the number of eligibles in a sample, have been widely used among researchers for monitoring a survey during data collection or for reporting after a survey as a survey quality measure obliquely indicating nonresponse bias (see AAPOR, 2023). In the deterministic view that respondents and nonrespondents are fixed in the population, the formula of nonresponse bias can be expressed
