Web Survey Bibliography
Contacting a suitable respondent at home and securing the interview is a significant component of the typical house-hold telephone survey. An optimal calling schedule minimizes the number of callbacks required and thus conserves resources. This article presents an analysis of time-of-day and day-of-week effects on the probabilities of obtaining an answered outcome and an interviewed outcome in a large national telephone survey of adult males. The data presented indicate that, at least for the survey population included in this study, the chances of obtaining an answer and conducting an interview on the first call are much better on weekday evenings and on weekends than they are during weekday daytime hours. Moreover, there is some evidence to indicate that this findings also applies to second calls made to first-call no-answers, at least with regard to contacting efforts. Time-of-day and/or day-of-week effects on first call outcomes appear to be generally consistent with respect to both contacting and interviewing, although Sunday has a decidedly higher interview response rate for answered calls than do the other calling periods analyzed.
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Web survey bibliography - 1986-1990 (18)
- Dimensional analysis of ranking data; 1990; Brady, H. E.
- A study of procedures to identify and trim extreme sampling weights; 1990; Potter, F.
- Sampling Design for a Monitoring Plan for CATI Interviewing; 1990; Chapman, D. W., Weinstein, R. B.
- Measuring Nonresponse and Refusals to an Electronic Telephone Survey; 1990; Havice, M. J.
- Some like it hot. Individual differences in responses to group feeling thermometers; 1989; Wilcox, C., Sigelman, L., Cook, E.
- Customer satisfaction research using disks-by-mail; 1989; Zabdan, P., Frost, L.
- The Effects of Appeals, Anonymity, and Feedback on Mail Survey Response Patterns from Salespeople; 1989; Pradeep, K. T.
- Survey of procedures to control extreme sampling weights; 1988; Potter, F.
- Priming and communication: Social determinants of information use in judgments of life satisfaction; 1988; Strack, F., Martin, L. L., Schwarz, N.
- CATI Instrument Logical Structures: An Analysis With Applications; 1988; Futterman, M.
- Response Effects in Computer-Administered Questioning; 1988; Liefeld, J. P.
- Optimal Call Scheduling for a Telephone Survey ; 1987; Weeks, M. F., Kulka, R. A., Pierson, S. A.
- Rating scales can influence results; 1986
- Sampling Rare Populations; 1986; Kalton, G., Anderson, D.W.
- Interpreting interpersonal behavior: The effects of expectancies; 1986; Jones, E. E.
- College sophomores in the laboratory: Influences of a narrow data base on social psychology's view...; 1986; Sears, D. O.
- The Status of Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing: Part II. Data Quality Issues; 1986; Groves, R. M., Nicholls II, W. L.
- The Status of Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing: Part I - Introduction and Impact on Cost and...; 1986; Nicholls II, W. L., Groves, R. M.