Psychopathology and attrition in the Baltimore ECA 15-year follow-up 1981-1996

Predictors of non-response were investigated in a 15-year follow-up (1981–1996) of 3,481 individuals in a probability sample from the household population of East Baltimore. Demographics (age, sex, race, education, marital status, and unemployment), household factors (living arrangements, household income, household size, and number of children), cultural variables (ancestral ethnicity and foreign language), social variables (social support and...