Web Survey Bibliography
For 20 years the debate about clean air regulation has centered on acid rain and the controversy about acid rain in the Adirondack Park, which covers some six million acres in New York State. But until now policymakers have never had an estimate of the economic value of improvements to the park to New York State residents. Our five-year study quantifies the change in total economic value (the sum of use and nonuse value) that would result from an improvement in the ecological attributes of the Adirondack Park that could be expected to follow from policies currently under consideration, such as Clear Skies. To obtain these estimates a contingent valuation survey was administered to a random sample of New York State residents through the Internet, Web TV, and mail.
Our preferred estimates of the mean willingness to pay (WTP) using the base case characterization of ecological improvements range from $48 to $107 per year per household in New York State. The alternative scope case scenario yields mean WTP ranging from $54 to $159 per year per household. Multiplying these population-weighted estimates by the approximate number of households in the state yields benefits ranging from about $336 million to $1.1 billion per year. The instrument passes an external scope test and a test of sensitivity to bid, both of which are important measures of validity for stated preference studies.
The results of this study help complete the two-decade-long project of integrated assessment across natural and social sciences, resulting in economic estimates that can be used to guide policymaking to address the ecological effects of acid rain in North America. The values above exceed cost estimates of reducing SO2 and NOx emissions from power plants subject to the Clear Skies initiative if the cost share is determined according to the share of these emissions actually being deposited in the park.
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Web survey bibliography - 2004 (99)
- A Comparison of Objective Characteristics and User Perception of Web Sites; 2004; Lee, S.-J., Lee, W.-N., Kim, H., Stout, P. A.
- The Effect of Billboards within the Gaming Environment; 2004; Chaney, I. M., Lin, K.-H., Chaney, J.
- Pros and cons of paper and electronic surveys; 2004; Porter, S. R.
- The Influence of Incremental Increases in Token Cash Incentives on Mail Survey Response; 2004; Trussell, N., Lavrakas, P. J.
- The impact of material incentives on response quantity, response quality, sample composition, survey...; 2004; Goeritz, A.
- Spacing, Position, and Order: Interpretive Heuristics for Visual Features of Survey Questions; 2004; Tourangeau, R., Conrad, F. G., Couper, M. P.
- The Influence of Graphical and Symbolic Language Manipulations on Responses to Self-Administered Questions...; 2004; Christian, L. M., Dillman, D. A.
- Scientific LogAnalyzer: A Web-based tool for analyses of server log files in psychological research; 2004; Reips, U.-D., Stieger, S.
- Identifying and Reducing Response Burdens in Internet Business Surveys; 2004; Haraldsen, G.
- The Ethics of Conducting E-Mail Surveys; 2004; Krishnamurthy, S.
- Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies; 2004; Buchanan, E. A.
- Validity of Data and Representativeness of Sample in Internet Survey; 2004; Katz, B., Matsuo, Hi., McIntyre, K., Tomazic, T., Bosch, R.
- Digital Audio File Recording in CATI Instruments; 2004; White, E., Kraft, J., Taylor, W.
- E-Mail Contacts: A Test of Complex Graphical Designs in Survey Research; 2004; Whitcomb, M. E., Porter, S. R.
- Impacts of the Use of E-Mail and the Internet on Personal Trip-Making Behavior; 2004; Tonn, B. E., Hemrick, A.
- How You Ask Counts: A Test of Internet-Related Components of Response Rates to a Web-Based Survey; 2004; Trouteaud, A. R.
- Changing from PAPI to CAPI: A Longitudinal Study Dealing with Mode-Effects in the German Socio-Economic...; 2004; Schraepler, J.-P., Schupp, J., Wagner, G. G
- Collecting Data on Ego-Centered Social Networks on the Web: Methodological Issues; 2004; Lozar Manfreda, K., Vehovar, V., Hlebec, V.
- Effects of Mode of Interview, and moderating variables on Erectile and Ejaculatory Function Measures; 2004; Catania, J. A., Rosen, R. J., Wood Johnson, R., Jacobs, S., Sallis, J., Shpilsky, A.
- On the Variability of Estimates Based on Propensity-score-weighted Data from Web Panels; 2004; Forsman, G., Danielsson, S., Isaksson, A.
- On the Variability of Estimates Based on Propensity-score-weighted Data from Web Panels; 2004; Forsman, G., Danielsson, S., Isaksson, A.
- The Online Survey: Its Contributions and Potential Problems; 2004; McIntyre, K., Tomazic, T., Katz, B., Matsuo, Hi.
- Raising response rates: What works?; 2004; Porter, S. R.
- The Internet: Marketing Researcher's Panacea or Pandora's Box?; 2004; Gurney, P. M., Chambers, E., Grant, L., Shah, S., Sullivan, M. P.
- Reading in Virutal Research Ethics; 2004; Anonymous
- Picture This! Exploring Visual Effects in Web Surveys; 2004; Couper, M. P., Tourangeau, R., Kenyon, K.
- Developing automated e-survey and control tools: an application in industrial management; 2004; Scornavacca Jr., E., Becker, J. L., Barnes, S.
- Gathering faculty teaching evaluations by in-class and online surveys: their effects on response rates...; 2004; Dommeyer, C. J., Baum, P., Hanna, R. W., Chapman, K. S.
- Survey Mode Preferences of Business Respondents; 2004; Tarnai, J., Paxon, M. C.
- Using progress indicators in web surveys; 2004; Heerwegh, D.
- Web Survey Design: Paging vs. Scrolling; 2004; Peytchev, A., Crawford, S. D., McCabe, S. E., Conrad, F. G., Couper, M. P.
- Web surveys: Best practices; 2004; Umbach, P. D.
- Telephone presurveys, self-selection, and non-response bias to mail and Internet surveys in economic...; 2004; Hudson, D., Seah, L. H., Hite, D., Haab, T.
- Doing Survey Research On The Internet: Yes, Timing Does Matter; 2004; Faught, K. S., Whitten, D., Green Jr., K. W.
- Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questions; 2004; Presser, S., Couper, M. P., Lessler, J. T., Martin, E., Martin, J., Rothgeb, J. M., Singer, E.
- Cutting Market Research Costs with On-Site Surveys; 2004; Dysart, J.
- Psychological Testing on the Internet: New Problems, Old Issues; 2004; Naglieri, J. A., Drasgow, F., Schmit, M., Handler, L., Prifitera, A., Margolis, A., Velasquez, R.
- Web Surveys For the Enterprise; 2004; King, N.
- Using the Online Medium for Discursive Research About People With Disabilities; 2004; Bowker, N., Tuffin, K.
- Classifying and Coding Online Actions.; 2004; Hargittai, E.
- Paper and pencil or online? Methodological Experiences from an employee survey; 2004; Poetschke, M.
- Employee surveys via Internet or paper? The influence of administration mode, anonymity, voluntariness...; 2004; Reips, U.-D., Franek, L.
- Online Experiments in Commercial Market Research; 2004; Nordmeyer, C.-F., Geissler, H., Donath, T.
- Salutation, Power and behaviour in on-line panels; 2004; Joinson, A. N., Reips, U.-D.
- A Comparison Between Responses From a Propensity-Weighted Web Survey and an Identical RDD Survey; 2004; Schonlau, M., Zapert, K., Simon, L. P., Sanstad, K., Marcus, S., Adams, Jo., Spranca, M., Kan, H., Turner...
- An Examination of the Equivalence of Web-Based Versus Paper-and-Pencil Upward Feedback Ratings: Rater...; 2004; Smither, J. W., Walker, A. G., Yap, M. K. T.
- Achieving high response rates on web-based surveys of post-secondary students; 2003; Nichols, L. B., Ghadialy, R.
- What They See Is What We Get: Response Options for Web Surveys; 2003; Couper, M. P., Tourangeau, R., Conrad, F. G., Crawford, S. D.
- Effect of trust on customer acceptance of Internet banking; 2002; Suh, B., Han, I.
- Response Effects in Mail Surveys; 1990; Ayidiya, S. A., McClendon, M. J.