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Response bias in job satisfaction surveys: English general practitioners

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H Gravelle
AR Hole, I Hussein

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Job satisfaction may affect the propensity to respond to job satisfaction surveys, so that estimates of average satisfaction and the effects of determinants of satisfaction may be biased. We examine response bias using data from a postal job satisfaction survey of family doctors. We link all the sampled doctors to an administrative database and so have information on the characteristics of responders and non-responders. Allowing for selection increases the estimate of mean job satisfaction in 2005 and the estimated change in mean job satisfaction between 2004 and 2005. Estimates of the determinants of job satisfaction are generally insensitive to response bias.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, University of York in its series Discussion Papers with number 08/24.

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Keywords: Job satisfaction. Response bias. Sample selection. Family practitioners.;

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J28 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations
I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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