AAPOR urges all practitioners to use these standardized sample disposition codes in all reports of survey methods, no matter if the project is proprietary work for private sector clients or a public, government or academic survey. This will enable researchers to find common ground on which to compare the outcome rates for different surveys.
G. Schürmer. Die Institution Schule und die Lebenswelt der Schüler. Vertiefende
Analysen der PISA-2000-Daten zum Kontext von Schülerleistungen, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden, (2004)