Participation in a mobile app survey to collect expenditure data as part of a large-scale probability household panel: response rates and response biases

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Understanding Society Working Paper Series

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2017-09

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Understanding Society Working Paper Series

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October 4, 2017

Abstract:

We examine non-response in expenditure data collected with a mobile app: 2,432 members of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel in the UK were invited to download an app to record all their spending on goods and services for a month, by scanning receipts or reporting spending in the app. We examine participation at different stages of the process; the prevalence of potential barriers to participation, including access, ability and willingness to use different mobile technologies; and biases in the types of people who participate, considering socio-demographic characteristics, financial position and financial behaviours.

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PLEASE CITE AS: Jäckle, A., Burton, J., Couper, M.P., and Lessof, C. (2019) ‘Participation in a mobile app survey to collect expenditure data as part of a large-scale probability household panel: coverage and participation rates and biases', Survey Research Methods, 13(1):23-44. https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2019.v1i1.7297

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