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Table 5 Percentage of Men with Self-Reported Combat and Military Sexual Assault Experiences by Different Missingness Mechanisms and Study-Arm Manipulation

From: Impact of different cover letter content and incentives on non-response bias in a sample of Veterans applying for Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits: a randomized, 3X2X2 factorial trial

Characteristic

Overall

N = 480

What Veterans were told about content

How name was obtained

Honoraria

Range across manipulations

Combat

n = 160

Unwanted Sexual Attention

n = 160

Lifetime/military experiences

n = 160

List of OEF/OIF/OND Veterans

n = 240

List of Veterans Applying for disability benefits

n = 240

$20

n = 240

$40

n = 240

Self-reported combat if

 Missing completely at random

 

89.3%

93.0%

91.1%

95.5%

83.8%

90.1%

92.3%

9.2

 Missing at random

 

85.3%

91.3%

88.0%

94.2%

82.2%

86.6%

89.9%

12.0

 Not missing at random

 

66.8%

69.8%

64.7%

76.5%

56.2%

61.3%

72.5%

20.3

 Variance across the 3 missingness assumptions

 

0.0144

0.0167

0.0208

0.0113

0.0240

0.0247

0.0117

0.0134

 Range across the 3 assumptions

 

22.5

23.2

26.4

19.0

27.6

28.8

19.8

9.4

 Combat exposure per VA administrative data

67.1%

65.0%

73.1%

63.1%

65.8%

68.3%

65.0%

69.2%

10.0

Self-reported military sexual assault if

 Missing completely at random

 

5.2%

5.6%

9.8%

5.6%

7.7%

10.4%

4.1%

6.3

 Missing at random

 

5.6%

6.1%

9.5%

6.0%

8.1%

9.7%

4.4%

5.3

 Not missing at random

 

25.6%

21.9%

35.6%

27.0%

27.7%

38.8%

18.3%

20.5

 Variance across the 3 missingness assumptions

 

0.0136

0.0086

0.0224

0.0150

0.0131

0.0276

0.0066

0.021

 Range across the 3 assumptions

 

20.4

16.3

25.8

21.4

20.0

28.4

14.2

14.2

 Military sexual trauma exposure per VA administrative dataa

2.1%

3.1%

1.3%

1.9%

2.1%

2.1%

1.7%

2.5%

1.4

  1. VA Department of Veterans Affairs. aVA administrative data assesses military sexual assault plus severe sexual harassment