How to Use nonresponse in a Sentence

nonresponse

noun

• And the nonresponse rate seems to be just as high when response cards are sent, even ones to which deadlines and threats have been added.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• Academics call this the nonresponse bias and have observed different reasons for it.
  — Bernhard Clemm, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2018
• Thus, error due to nonresponse may affect the accuracy of the poll.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
• But Kotb wasn’t so easily put off by Lopez’s media-savvy nonresponse.
  — Elizabeth Loga, Glamour, 20 July 2021
• But in many cases, such as in the 2016 election polls, nonresponse matters.
  — Baobao Zhang, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2020
• That, however, wasn't enough this time around, which suggests there could be specific types of nonresponse that pollsters haven't yet honed in on.
  — Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN, 13 May 2021
• His nonresponse suggested that perhaps my bitterness had seeped through.
  — Lise Funderburg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• One of the most likely culprits, the research suggests, is a failure to fully account for some form of differential nonresponse bias.
  — Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN, 13 May 2021
• The nonresponse rate alone probably dooms the report as sound quantitative analysis.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2017
• Rather than nonresponse bias or a response-rate problem or something that can be solved through weighting or smart analytics, this challenge requires a bit more art than science to solve.
  — Kristen Soltis Anderson, Washington Examiner, 12 Nov. 2020
• But the Census Bureau only makes city and county response data available for self-response - not for nonresponse followup.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 15 Oct. 2020
• All surveys are subject to multiple sources of error, including sampling, question wording and order, and nonresponse.
  — Zeke Miller, The Seattle Times, 7 Nov. 2018
• One study on ghosting in a hiring context—say, an employer’s nonresponse to a job applicant—found that those who were ghosted had more self-esteem than those who got personal feedback.
  — Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
• Reconsidering those polls suggests that the corrections performed for nonresponse in state polls were not as thorough and effective as were done for national surveys.
  — Andrew Gelman, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017
• The nonresponse rate was considerably higher on gender – more than 40% of benefits applicants didn’t answer that question.
  — Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 10 May 2020
• If it’s not properly addressed, systemic nonresponse could have harmful policy implications.
  — Baobao Zhang, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2020
• Still, polls have issues of their own, including sampling bias, leading questioning, and nonresponses that can also produce inaccuracies.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024
• Sampling error does not take into account other sources of variation inherent in public opinion surveys, such as nonresponse, question wording or context effects.
  — Star Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
• However, the Biden administration's recent statements are a tepid nonresponse in light of the actions that could immediately ease the suffering of the Cuban people.
  — Rena Kraut, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
• There’s certainly cause for concern over the geographic impacts of these closings, not to mention the political nonresponse to them at a time when the president is still crowing over the barely significant coal industry.
  — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 21 Apr. 2017
• Real-world error includes sources of error beyond sampling error, such as nonresponse bias, coverage error, late shifts among undecided voters and error in estimating the composition of the electorate.
  — New York Times, 17 Aug. 2024
• Real-world error includes sources of error beyond sampling error, such as nonresponse bias, coverage error, late shifts among undecided voters and error in estimating the composition of the electorate.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2026
• Some experts, like the Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini, warn that there are specific states where this nonresponse bias may have a bigger effect because of the nature of the electorate and the way data is captured there.
  — Christian Paz, Vox, 10 Sep. 2024
• Real-world error includes sources of error beyond sampling error, such as nonresponse bias, coverage error, late shifts among undecided voters and error in estimating the composition of the electorate.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2026
• Real-world error includes sources of error beyond sampling error, such as nonresponse bias, coverage error, late shifts among undecided voters and error in estimating the composition of the electorate.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2026
• Real-world error includes sources of error beyond sampling error, such as nonresponse bias, coverage error, late shifts among undecided voters and error in estimating the composition of the electorate.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2026
• Real-world error includes sources of error beyond sampling error, such as nonresponse bias, coverage error, late shifts among undecided voters and error in estimating the composition of the electorate.
  — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
• By late Monday, the Office of Personnel Management had told agency heads that responding to the email was voluntary and a nonresponse doesn’t amount to a resignation, according to news reports.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
• Noting Detroit had the lowest self-response rate in the country, Duggan also blasted the government for sending enumerators to do nonresponse follow-ups in suburbs first and not getting to Detroit until there was no time left.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• Given that none of the president’s assistants, the people with direct access to him via memo or meeting, have any scientific expertise, his nonresponse, even complacency, in the face of the emerging epidemic in China is sadly understandable.
  — Jason Karlawish, STAT, 17 May 2020