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Extended field efforts to reduce the risk of non-response bias : do they pay off?

Hall, Julia; Brown, Victoria; Nicolaas, Gerry; Lynn, Peter - 2011

We examine the effects on survey estimates of extended interviewer efforts to gain survey response, including refusal conversion attempts and attempts to make contact with hard-to-contact sample members. Specifically, we update and extend the research of Lynn & Clarke (2002). We estimate bias...

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Experiments with methods to reduce attrition in longitudinal surveys

Fumagalli, Laura; Laurie, Heather; Lynn, Peter - 2010

We conduct two large-scale randomised experiments on the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to study methods of reducing panel attrition. The first experiment compares different strategies for tracing and maintaining contact with sample members. We find that change-of-address cards...

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Data quality in telephone surveys and the effect of questionnaire length : a cross-national experiment

Roberts, Caroline; Eva, Gillian; Allum, Nick; Lynn, Peter - 2010

Respondents in long telephone survey interviews may adopt satisficing strategies as they approach the end of the questionnaire (Holbrook, Green and Krosnick, 2003). However, there is inconsistency regarding the relationship between questionnaire length and different forms of satisficing. We...

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An experimental analysis of the impact of survey design on measures and models of subjective wellbeing

Pudney, Steve - 2010

the new UK Understanding Society panel survey. The randomised experiments relate to job- and life-satisfaction questions … find a highly significant impact of these design features on the distributions of reported satisfaction in various life … domains and some important impacts on the findings from conventional cross-section models of satisfaction. …

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Handbook of survey-based business cycle analysis

Goldrian, Georg (ed.) - 2007

This Handbook aims to provide an overview of regular survey activities, as well as to show how survey results can be used scientifically in the context of business-cycle analysis and forecasting. - Examples of various business surveys are described in detail, starting with their objectives, the...

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Sind Key Informants verlässliche Datenlieferanten?

Hurrle, Beatrice; Kieser, Alfred - In: Die Betriebswirtschaft : DBW 65 (2005) 6, pp. 584-602

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Telefonische Bevölkerungsbefragungen im Vergleich zu telefonischen Interviews mit politischen Eliten : Ausschöpfung und Kontakthäufigkeit

Buchwald, Christina - In: Eliten am Telefon : neue Formen von Experteninterviews …, (pp. 127-144). 2008

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The feasibility and importance of adding measures of actual experience to cross-sectional data collection

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011

We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...

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How survey design affects inference regarding health perceptions and outcomes

Exterkate, Anneke; Lunsdaine, Robin L. - 2011

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