Web Survey Bibliography
Reporting on an exploratory e-mail survey of social researchers experienced in one-to-one interviewing or lone observation, this paper addresses the issue of researcher safety in social research. Despite the acknowledgement that the chance of a dangerous encounter is low, social researchers state that fears about their personal safety do arise during fieldwork periods, and that these fears can affect the quality of their data collection. Our research indicates that a carefully implemented code of safety practice for fieldworkers could be a positive development in the social sciences. Fears about personal safety could be reduced if mandatory procedures were established for researchers to follow throughout their fieldwork.
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Web survey bibliography - International Journal of Social Research Methodology (13)
- Incorporating eye tracking into cognitive interviewing to pretest survey questions; 2016; Neuert, C.; Lenzner, T.
- Participant recruitment and data collection through Facebook: the role of personality factors; 2016; Rife, S. C.; Cate, K. L.; Kosinski, M.; Stillwell, D.
- Presentation matters: how mode effects in item non-response depend on the presentation of response options...; 2016; Zeglovits, E.; Schwarzer, S.
- Email subject lines and response rates to invitations to participate in a web survey and a face-to-face...; 2015; Sappleton, N.; Lourenco, F.
- The quality of responses to grid questions as used in Web questionnaires (compared with paper questionnaires...; 2015; Dominguez, J. A.; de Rada, V. D.
- PDAs in socio-economic surveys: instrument bias, surveyor bias or both?; 2013; Escobal, J., Benites, S.
- IVR and web administration in structured interviews utilizing rating scales: exploring the role of motivation...; 2011; Yang, Y., Callegaro, M., Bhola, D. S., Dillman, D. A.
- Item non-response rates: a comparison of online and paper questionnaires ; 2009; Denscombe, M.
- Having their say: email interviews for research data collection with people who have verbal communication...; 2009; Ison, N.
- Quality Criteria for Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research: A View from Social Policy...; 2008; Bryman, A., Becker, S., Sempik, J.
- The effect of personalization on response rates and data quality in web surveys; 2005; Heerwegh, D., Vanhove, T., Matthijs, K., Loosveldt, G.
- Computer software and qualitative analysis: trends, issues and resources; 2000; Lee, R. M., Esterhuizen, L.
- 'Once would be enough': some reflections on the issue of safety for lone researchers ; 1999; Kenyon, E., Hawker, S.