Web Survey Bibliography
Title Regular events in travel behaviour research: setup of a longitudinal websurvey
Source SMABS-EAM Conference 2006
Year 2006
Access date 24.09.2006
Abstract One of the leading paradigms in modern travel behaviour research is the activity based approach, which considers travel as a derivative from the activities that individuals and households need or wish to perform. Longitudinal designs provide the required framework for a better understanding of the dynamics of travel behaviour. Longitudinal data can be used to analyze behavioural adjustments some time before (response leads) or after (response lags) the occurrence of an event, or for instance to analyze routine behaviour.
The questionnaire used to collect the data will be an activity diary. The respondents are asked to fill in all their activities performed that day. The diaries have to be filled in at least twice a week. These moments are randomly selected, but in weeks when a special event occurs, the days around this special event are questioned as well. Performing a longitudinal study has certain drawbacks however. The respondent burden can cause different side-effects, such as panel attrition, decreasing representativeness and, reporting errors. Thus, next to refreshing the sample regularly, trying to keep the respondents motivated is essential.
A first step in lowering the respondent burden is to make the activity diaries user-friendly. An internet-based questionnaire makes interaction with respondents possible. The respondent’s current results can be graphically displayed (e.g. geographical map of activity-pattern), potentially awakening or strengthening the interest in the study. Logical rules (e.g. two activities on two different locations require a trip in between) can be formulated, and the interaction with the respondents allows the researcher to get feedback on “strange” answers, or on missing values, thus improving the data quality.
This paper describes some potential paths to minimise sample attrition (e.g. internet-based interaction with respondents) and ways to refresh the sample. These findings are applied to the study of travel behaviour of Flemish households around school holidays.
The questionnaire used to collect the data will be an activity diary. The respondents are asked to fill in all their activities performed that day. The diaries have to be filled in at least twice a week. These moments are randomly selected, but in weeks when a special event occurs, the days around this special event are questioned as well. Performing a longitudinal study has certain drawbacks however. The respondent burden can cause different side-effects, such as panel attrition, decreasing representativeness and, reporting errors. Thus, next to refreshing the sample regularly, trying to keep the respondents motivated is essential.
A first step in lowering the respondent burden is to make the activity diaries user-friendly. An internet-based questionnaire makes interaction with respondents possible. The respondent’s current results can be graphically displayed (e.g. geographical map of activity-pattern), potentially awakening or strengthening the interest in the study. Logical rules (e.g. two activities on two different locations require a trip in between) can be formulated, and the interaction with the respondents allows the researcher to get feedback on “strange” answers, or on missing values, thus improving the data quality.
This paper describes some potential paths to minimise sample attrition (e.g. internet-based interaction with respondents) and ways to refresh the sample. These findings are applied to the study of travel behaviour of Flemish households around school holidays.
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Year of publication2006
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Web survey bibliography - 2006 (98)
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- The effect of conditioning when re-interviewing; 2006; Cartwright, T., Nancarrow, C.
- The anonymous elect. Market research through online access panels; 2006; Postoaca, A.
- Statistics for real-life sample surveys: non-simple-random samples and weighted data; 2006; Dorofeev, S., Grant, P.
- Sample matching. Representative sampling from Internet panels; 2006; Rivers, D.
- Research quality: The next MR industry challenge; 2006; Dedeker, K.
- Optimizing quality in the use of web-based and computer based testing for personnel selection; 2006; Hornke, L. F., Kersting, M.
- Online marketing research; 2006; Miller, J.
- Need for high quality auxiliary data service for improving the quality of editing and imputation...; 2006; Laaksonen, S.
- Microsoft sues testing material vendors; 2006; Johnston, S. J.
- Introduction to the Special Issue on the ITC - Guidelines on Computer-Based and Internet-Delivered Testing...; 2006; Coyne, I., Bartram, D.
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- F-Shaped pattern for reading web content; 2006; Nielsen, J.
- Blocked versus randomized format of questionnaires. A confirmatory multigroup analysis; 2006; Sparfeldt, J. R., Schilling, S. R., Rost, D. H., Rost, D. H., Thiel, A.
- Benefits and challenges of multi-sourcing. Understanding differences between sample sources; 2006; de Gaudemar, O.
- Behavioral self-report measures. International extensions; 2006; Thomas, R. K., Klein, J. D.
- Attitudinal differences. Comparing people who belong to multiple versus single panels; 2006; Casdas, D., Fine, B., Menictas, C.
- Assessing individual respondents' quality. An innovative scoring system; 2006; Loeb, C.,Hartmann, A.
- Assessing Panel Bias in the Knowledge Networks Panel: Updated Results from 2005 Research ; 2006; Pineau, V., Nukulkij, P., Tang, X.
- A Critical Assessment of Online Survey Tools; 2006; Marra, R. M., Bogue, B.
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- The 2006 Confirmit Annual MR Software Survey; 2006; Macer, T., Wilson, S.
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- Blaise – Alive and kicking for 20 years; 2006; Bethlehem, J., Hofman, L.
- Physical or Virtual Presence of the Experimenter: Psychological Online-Experiments in Different Settings...; 2006; Ollesch, H., Heineken, E., Schulte, F. P.