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Outcome rates, such as the percent of sample units refusing to participate in a survey, generally have three uses. The first is to measure study performance and outcome rates are often also referred to as performance rates or process indicators. For example, a client might wish to know what proportion of the sample resulted in a completed interview. The second use is to inflate a calculated sample size for loss of sample units.
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Alternatively, the units could be worked in a random order, in which case, data collection could be stopped partway through a replicate. Working cases in a random order is typically impractical, however.
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Valliant, R., Dever, J.A., Kreuter, F. (2013). Outcome Rates and Effect on Sample Size. In: Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples. Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol 51. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6449-5_6
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