Weighting Adjustment of Wave Non-response in Panel Surveys

Wave non-response is a sort of non-sampling error that often occurs in panel surveys. It usually causes bias of the estimator without adjustment. The two existing weighting adjustments encounter complexities in dealing with non-monotone wave non-responses. In this paper, we propose a novel weighting method, column and row weighting method, to adjust for the non-monotone wave non-response in panel surveys. Our method avoids the complexity of the existing methods. The simulation study We did shows that our method reduce the bias of the estimators and increase the accuracy of the estimator of the net change between two waves.