Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
February 15, 2018
Summary:
This article is concerned with the extent to which the propensity to participate in a web-face-to-face sequential mixed-mode survey is influenced by the ability to communicate with sample members by email in addition to mail. Researchers may be able to collect email addresses for sample members and to use them subsequently to send survey invitations and reminders. However, there is little evidence regarding the value of doing so. This makes it difficult to decide what efforts should be made to collect such information and how to subsequently use it efficiently. Using evidence from a randomized experiment within a large mixed-mode national survey, we find that using a respondent-supplied email address to send additional survey invites and reminders does not affect survey response rate but is associated with an increased proportion of responses by web rather than face to face and, hence, lower survey costs.
Published in
Field Methods
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 30 , p.70 -87
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1525822X17726205
ISSN
1525822
Subjects
Notes
Open Access
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