A mixed-mode design utilizing both telephone and web participation was investigated in the National Child Development Study in 2013. Compared to using telephone-only data collection methods, the offer of a web survey increased overall participation rates by 5.0...
Conducting research among hard-to-reach populations is a difficult endeavor because some of their characteristics are known to be associated with survey nonresponse and panel attrition. In the case of the Parchemins study, which followed undocumented migrants over...
Importance of Measuring and Accounting for Interviewer Effects Interviewers can vary in demographic attributes (e.g., age, gender), level of perceived experience and professionalism, approach to recruitment and survey administration (e.g., adherence to verbatim...
This experimental study of recruitment strategies in the mixed mode context of a German panel study suggests that web-first invitations including a paper questionnaire and web-only recruitment approaches obtain similar response rates and data quality at reduced cost,...
