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For many household surveys in the United States, responses rates have been steadily declining for at least the past two decades. A similar decline in survey response can be observed in all wealthy countries. Efforts to raise response rates have used such strategies as monetary incentives or repeated attempts to contact sample members and obtain completed interviews, but these strategies increase the costs of surveys. This review addresses the core issues regarding survey nonresponse. It considers why response rates are declining and what that means for the accuracy of survey results. These trends are of particular concern for the social science community, which is heavily invested in obtaining information from household surveys. The evidence to date makes it apparent that current trends in nonresponse, if not arrested, threaten to undermine the potential of household surveys to elicit information that assists in understanding social and economic issues.

Introduction: Understanding Response Burden -- Approaches to Reducing Response Burden -- Improving Response by Building Respondent Support -- Using Administrative Records to Reduce Response Burden -- Using Improved Sampling and Other Methods to Reduce Response Burden -- Tailoring Collection of Information from Group Quarters -- Future Directions -- Appendix A. Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B. Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Presenters.

Intro -- Front Matter -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Context -- 3 Establishing Equitable Terms for Data Sharing -- 4 Exploring the Ethical Imperative for Data Sharing -- 5 Enabling Data Discoverability, Linkage, and Re-use -- 6 Next Steps: Maximizing the Use of Data to Improve Public Health -- Appendix A Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B Participants

Establishing equitable terms for data sharing -- Exploring the ethical imperative for data sharing -- Enabling data discoverability, linkage, and re-use -- Next steps: maximizing the use of data to improve public health -- Appendix A: workshop agenda -- Appendix B: participants.