Web Survey Bibliography
The ALMALAUREA Inter
‐university Consortium1 conducts a yearly survey aimed at monitoring the employment opportunities of Italian graduates 1, 3 and 5 years after earning their degree. The survey makes it possible to analyse labour market trends through an examination of university graduates’ career opportunities. The traditional survey carried out via CATI has been integrated during the last few years by use of CAWI survey techniques. This has been made possible by a high and steadily increasing availability of graduates’ e‐mail addresses, which are generally up‐to‐date since they are provided by graduates themselves in their online CVs. Initial uses of CAWI have concerned specific phenomena requiring a short data collection period and low costs. The use of CAWI has become increasingly crucial over time due to the high number of graduates involved in the survey – over 287,000 graduates were interviewed in 2008 – which has mandated a reduction in survey duration and costs. However, in order to achieve the usual, high response rates of ALMALAUREA surveys on employment, CAWI cannot be the only survey technique used. At the moment, in fact, the two survey techniques (CAWI and CATI) coexist in the same survey project. ‐6 weeks each, have produced response rates ranging from 31 to 49 percent. Although the surveys have different characteristics – in terms of topics, question texts, duration of data collection, day of the week and time of day when data collection starts, number of reminders sent, and so on – a preliminary analysis revealed a common trend: the utmost participation of graduates is observed during the first few days immediately after the beginning of the survey itself; afterwards, there is a gradual reduction in participation. Moreover, the contribution given by reminders is valuable and immediate: each time a reminder has been sent there was an increase in the number of questionnaires answered, but they have a limited effect over the course of time. The analysis of response rate trends reveals that the final response rate is particularly connected to the participation rate recorded during the initial days of data collection. ‐selected sample. ‐selection under check by intervening on the most relevant variables.
The frequent use of CAWI over the last few years has determined two needs: firstly, the evaluation of factors that determine the success of the survey in terms of overall participation; secondly, the specification of a model that enables ALMALAUREA to have an ex ante forecast of the final response rate. The analysis presented in this paper will focus on approximately ten CAWI surveys conducted during the last few years. They mostly regard the employment opportunities of graduates one or more years on from graduation. Sometimes ad hoc surveys have also been carried out to explore more specific topics, e.g., graduates’ opinion on interculturalism.
These surveys, which lasted about 3
The first objective of this paper is, therefore, to find a function that calculates the overall response rate achieved during an online survey on the basis of both contextual factors (i.e., the elements that are peculiar to the survey) and individual factors (i.e., the characteristics of the population). Thanks to the wide range of information2 available to ALMALAUREA a preliminary descriptive analysis highlights the fact that respondents of online surveys comprise a self
The second objective of this paper is to develop a logistic regression model in order to identify the variables that most influence graduates’ probability of participating in an online survey and calculate their net effect. In this way it will be possible to maximise the success of the survey and to keep self selection under check by intervening on the most relevant variables.
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Web survey bibliography - Italy (57)
- Web Health Monitoring Survey: A New Approach to Enhance the Effectiveness of Telemedicine Systems; 2017; Romano, M. F.; Sardella, M. V.; Alboni, F.
- Web Health Monitoring Survey: A New Approach to Enhance the Effectiveness of Telemedicine Systems ; 2016; Romano, M. F.; Sardella, M. V.; Alboni, F.
- Recommended Practices for the design of business surveys questionnaires; 2016; Macchia, S.
- Cheating in web surveys. Evidence from a split-ballot repeated experiment on knowledge questions on...; 2015; Ladini, R.; Vezzoni, C.
- 640 Current trends in management of high-risk prostate cancer in Europe: Results of a web-based survey...; 2014; Briganti, A., Isbarn, H., Ost, P., Ploussard, G., Sooriakumaran, P., Van Den Bergh, R.C.N., Van Oort...
- The invisible Interviewer: Old and New Methodological Issues in Online Research; 2014; Niero, M.
- The need of and the demand for completing surveys on mobile devices; 2014; Toninelli, D., Revilla, M., Ochoa, C.
- Survey participation via mobile devices in a probability-based online-panel: Prevalence, determinants...; 2014; Poggio, T., Bosnjak, M., Weyandt, K.
- Web-respondent-driven sampling; 2014; Bianchi, A., Biffignandi, S., Artaz, R.
- Prioritisation of alternatives with analytical hierarchy process plus response latency and web survey...; 2014; Barone, S. Errore, A., Lombardo, A.
- Modelling ”don’t know” responses in rating scales; 2014; Manisera, M., Zuccolotto, P.
- How much is shorter CAWI questionnaire VS CATI questionnaire?; 2014; Bartoli, B.
- Online mobile surveys in Italy: coverage and other methodological challenges; 2014; Poggio, T.
- Migraine and pregnancy: an internet survey; 2013; Allais, G. et al.
- The internet user profile of Italian families of patients with rare diseases: a web survey; 2013; Tozzi, A. E., Mingarelli, R., Agricola, E., Gonfiantini, M., Pandolfi, E., Carloni, E., Gesualdo, F.,...
- Web Surveys and Official Statistics: Perspectives and Cases ; 2013; Martelli, B.
- The challenge of a mixed-mode design survey and new IT tools application: the case of the Italian Structure...; 2013; Cardinaleschi, S., De Santis, S., Rocci, F., Spinelli, V.
- The Design of the Online Questionnaire of the Italian Population Census ; 2013; Tininini, L., Virgillito, A.
- The behaviour of respondents while filling in a web questionnaire: the case of the Italian business...; 2013; Masselli, M., Nuccitelli, A.
- A web-based Census of services: an ISTAT evolutionary study ; 2013; Cesaro, A., Palazzi, B., Paterniti, M., Ranaldi, P.
- A web based management system for addressing census complexity: the Italian experience; 2013; Bruno, M., Giacummo, M., Silipo, M., Vaste, G.
- Online Survey on Twitter: A Urological Experience; 2013; Dal Moro, F.
- Web Panel Representativeness; 2013; Bianchi, A., Biffignandi, S.
- Measuring the impact of the Web: Rasch modelling for survey evaluation; 2013; Annoni, P., Weziak-Bialowolska, D., Farhan, H.
- Responsive design for mixed-mode panel data; 2013; Bianchi, A., Biffignandi, S.
- Adjusting for bias in a mixed-mode CAWI survey on University students ; 2013; Clerici, R., Giraldo, A.
- Comparative analysis of data from web and face-to-face surveys. A case study on e-commerce in young...; 2013; Cappello, C., Pellegrino, D.
- The Relation of Survey Topic and Participation Behavior. Analyzing Unit Nonresponse using web-generated...; 2013; Zillmann, D., Schmitz, A., Blossfeld, H. P.
- A walking exercise on a tightrope: trying to balance coverage, probabilistic sampling and the costs...; 2013; Poggio, T.
- Norme di qualita' Assirm (Assirm quality rules]; 2012
- Social research in online context: methodological reflections on web surveys from a case study; 2012; Pandolfini, V.
- Survey Data Collection and Integration; 2012; Davino, C., Fabbris, L.
- Online Data Collection in the Agro-Food Sector; 2012; Biffignandi, S., Artaz, R.
- Mobile Survey Participation Rates in Commercial Market Research: A Meta-Analysis; 2012; Bosnjak, M., Poggio, T., Becker, K. R., Funke, F., Wachenfeld, A., Fischer, B.
- Panel retention rate and data quality: experimental results drawing on Reciprocity design; 2012; Biffignandi, S., Artaz, R.
- Web Surveys: Methodological Problems and Research Perspectives; 2012; Biffignandi, S., Bethlehem, J.
- A Generalized System for Aided Development and Monitoring of Web Surveys; 2011; Torelli, R.
- Using survey data collection as a tool for improving the survey process; 2011; Biffignandi, S., Perani, G., Laureti, A.
- Facebook sampling methods: some methodological proposals; 2011; Macrì, E., Tessitore, C.
- Errors within web-based surveys: a comparison between two different tools for the analysis of tourist...; 2011; Polizzi, G., Oliveri, A. M.
- Use of new technologies in social research: Self-administered mobile surveys; 2011; Bosnjak, M.
- Modeling non-sampling errors and participation in Web surveys; 2010; Biffignandi, S.
- Web-based macroseismic survey in Italy: method validation and results; 2010; Sbarra P., Tosi, P., De Rubeis, V.
- Web-based versus paper-based data collection for the evaluation of teaching activity: empirical evidence...; 2010; Lalla, M., Ferrari, D.
- Web based macroseismic survey: fast information exchange and elaboration of seismic intensity effects...; 2009; De Rubeis, V., Sbarra P., Sorrentino, D., Tosi, P.
- Factors Contributing to Participation in Web‐based Surveys among Italian University Graduates; 2009; Cimini, C., Girottu, C., Gasperoni, G.
- Integration of different data collection techniques using the propensity score; 2009; Camillo, F., Conti, V., Ghiselli, S.
- Modelling online survey participation among Italian university graduates ; 2009; Cimini, C., Girotti, C., Gasperoni, G.
- Coverage rates of mobile telephones and the Internet in Italy ; 2009; Fabbris, L., Gorelli, S.
- An experiment on the effects of non-response reweighting on estimators' precision in a web survey; 2009; Fabrizi, E., Biffignandi, S., Toninelli, D.