Web Survey Bibliography
List-assisted random digit dialing (RDD) is commonly used for sampling telephone households in the United States. The sampling frame is landline one hundred-series banks with one or more listed telephone numbers. The exclusion of banks without listed numbers from this truncated design has been justified by a 1995 study which found only 3.7 percent of working household numbers in unlisted banks with no significant demographic biases [Brick et al. 1995 ("Bias in List-Assisted Telephone Samples." Public Opinion Quarterly 59:218–235)]. A recent study [Fahimi, Kulp, and Brick et al. 2008b ("Bias in List-Assisted 100-Series RDD Sampling." Survey Practice, September 28, 2008)] re-examined the coverage of landline households in listed banks. The authors concluded that "the coverage loss for designs based on the 1+ listed banks is closer to 20 percent than 4 percent" today. Such coverage error calls into question the acceptability of current RDD sampling procedures for landline households, and in combination with cell phone coverage issues, the very future of telephone surveys. The current study attempted to replicate the Fahimi study using a different sample vendor and more elaborate procedures to establish household status and characteristics of households in unlisted banks. Based on a national RDD sample of 10,000 numbers from 1+ listed banks and 27,175 numbers from unlisted banks, we found that 95 percent of landline households are still located in 1+ listed banks. However, while the coverage error from unlisted telephone banks is only slightly higher today than a decade ago, there is now a measurable bias in the excluded households toward younger, lower income, minority and rental households. This bias will be particularly problematic for telephone samples that also do not include cell phone only households.
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Web survey bibliography - 2009 (509)
- Mail Invitation Letters for a Web Survey of a Targeted Population: Does the Cost Result in Response...; 2009; Jackson, N. M.
- What Difference Does It Make? Adding Cell Phone Numbers to Traditional Land-Line Samples; 2009; Lambries, D., Oldendick, R. W., Williams, L. G.
- Cost-Error Optimization Model for Mixed-Mode Surveys; 2009; Vehovar, V., Berzelak, N., Lozar Manfreda, K.
- Challenges and Benefits of Interactive Online Surveys: A Case Survey of Youth Political Ideology; 2009; Ren, G.
- An Exploratory Study of Participant Perceptions of In-Avatar Interviewing and Virtual Settings; 2009; Tuten, T. L., Dean, E.
- A Web Survey Interface for Building Surveys, Collecting Paradata and Testing Web-Respondent Interactions...; 2009; Walejko, G. K.
- “Log On”: Communicating Effectively with Respondents Using Websites; 2009; Kendall, E.
- Where Do We Find You? How to Locate Cell Respondents; 2009; Christian, L. M., Dimock, M.
- Out and About: An Evaluation of Data Quality in Cell Phone Surveys; 2009; Witt, L., ZuWallack, R. S., Conrey, F.
- Characteristics of Cell Phone Only, Listed and Unlisted Telephone Households; 2009; Tarnai, J., Moore, D., Schultz, M.
- Do Landline RDD Samples Adequately Cover the "Wireless Mostly"?; 2009; Dimock, M., Christian, L. M., Keeter, S.
- Identifying Cell-Phone-Primary Households: Why, How and Who?; 2009; Fleeman, A., Wasikowski, N., Wigney-Burmaka, M., Possett, R.
- Improving the Effectiveness of Mail Contact Procedures to Obtain Survey Response Over the Internet for...; 2009; Messer, B. L., Dillman, D. A.
- Evaluating Response Quality in a Study Using Random Digit Dialing, Mail and Web Using the Postal Delivery...; 2009; Lesser, V. M.
- Television Viewing Among Respondents and Nonrespondents to the Nielsen Diary Survey; 2009; Casas-Cordero, C., Kreuter, F.
- Interactive Interventions in Web Surveys Can Increase Respondent Conscientiousness; 2009; Conrad, F. G., Tourangeau, R., Couper, M. P., Kennedy, C.
- The Challenge and Importance of Including Spanish- Dominant Latinos in Online Panel Studies Addressing...; 2009; DiSogra, C., Wells, T., Torres, J.
- Differences Between Internet and Non-Internet Households on Survey Items: Do These Differences Disappear...; 2009; Zhang, C., Callegaro, M., Thomas, M.
- Does Weighting Improve the Accuracy of Data from Non- Probability Internet Survey Panels of People Who...; 2009; Yeager, D. S., Krosnick, J. A.
- Evaluation of Measurement Equivalence for a Web-Based Survey with Paper Survey Option; 2009; Gibson, J., Turner, S., Marsh, S., Medway, R.
- Who Chooses the Web Option?; 2009; O'Hare, B. C., Gentry, R. J.
- Priming Web Survey Respondents with Location-Specific Graphics: Effects on Customer Survey Scores and...; 2009; Cardador, J.
- Exploring the Overlap Domain in a National Dual-Frame (Cell/Landline) Telephone Survey: Results from...; 2009; Lohr, S. L., Grandjean, B. D., Taylor, P. A.
- Wireless and Wireline: Dual Frame Implications for Sample Design Decisions on Estimates, Weighting and...; 2009; Benford, R., Tompson, T., Feinberg, B., Feinberg, G., Weber, A., Speulda, N., Fleury, C.
- Cell Phones: The Key to Including the Full Population?; 2009; Frankel, M. R., Battaglia, M. P., Balluz, L. S.
- Timing and Amount of Incentives: Implications for Enhancing Survey Participation and Encouraging Web...; 2009; Ciemnecki, A., Heaviside, S., Barrett, K., Mooney, G., Jang, D., Kang, K. H.
- Results of Mailing Experiments Aimed at Maximizing Self- Administered Web Participation; 2009; Franklin, J.
- Producing Straightlining and Item Non-Differentiation in a Web Survey: How Visual Design Plays a Role...; 2009; Callegaro, M., Shand-Lubbers, J., Dennis, J. M.
- New Media Use, Political Sophistication and Cell-Phone Surveys; 2009; Goidel, R. K., Kenny, C., Xenos, M. A.
- Comparative Analysis of Gender and Age in the Cell-Only and Landline Samples of the 2008 Iowa Behavioral...; 2009; Bonsall Hoekstra, A., Losch, M. E., Lutz, G. M.
- Examining Mail and Web Survey Response Differences in a Survey on Assessment of Hospital Inpatient Care...; 2009; Lynch, J., Chen, P., Gordek, H., Babeu, L.
- Can Post-Stratification Adjustments Correct Telephone Survey Estimates for Coverage Bias Associated...; 2009; Call, K. T., Davern, M. E., Boudreaux, M., Johnson, P. J., Nelson, J., Spencer, D.
- Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der Responserate bei listenbasierten Stichproben in Webbefragungen; 2009; Keusch, F.
- Indikatoren und Erfolgsfaktoren von Online-Befragungen; 2009; Knijff, M.
- Cell Phone Mainly Households: Coverage and Reach for Telephone Surveys Using RDD Landline Samples; 2009; Boyle, J., Lewis, F., Tefft, B.
- Cell-Phone-Only Voters in the 2008 Exit Poll and Implications for Future Noncoverage Bias ; 2009; Mokrzycki, M., Keeter, S., Kennedy, C.
- Zero Banks: Coverage Error and Bias in Rdd Samples Based on Hundred Banks with Listed Numbers ; 2009; Boyle, J., Bucuvalas, M., Piekarski, L., Weiss, A.
- National Surveys Via RDD Telephone Interviewing vs. the Internet: Comparing Sample Representativeness...; 2009; Chang, L. C., Krosnick, J. A.
- Making small effects observable: Reducing error by using visual analogue scales; 2009; Funke, F., Reips, U.-D.
- Effects of incentives and the Big Five personality dimensions on internet panellists' ratings; 2009; Larson, A. J., Sachau, D. A.
- Best practices in mobile research; 2009; Zahariev, M., Ferneyhough, C., Ryan, C.
- Mobile interviewing; 2009; Lavine, S.
- Qualitative Research Online; 2009; Buckley, N., Dimoldenberg, S.
- Social Context of Online Research; 2009; Hardey, M., Beeftink, B.
- If Access Panels no Longer Offer the Solution What is the Future?; 2009; Case, S., Petit, F. C., Davis, H.
- Crowd Source data for the social sciences: Web based services and real-time geographic surveys; 2009; Hudson-Smith, A., Milton, R., Crooks, A., Batty, M.
- Using Mixed Modes to Create Broadly Representative Samples; 2009; Kennedy, G., Harmon, C.
- A comparison of web-based and telephone surveys for assessing traffic safety concerns, beliefs, and...; 2009; Beck, K. H., Yan, A. F., Qi Wang, M.
- Comparison of ability tests administered online and in the laboratory; 2009; Marten Ihme, J., Lemke, F., Lieder, K., Martin, F., C. C., Schmidt, Sa., Mueller, J. C.
- The Impact of Textual Messages of Encouragement on Web Survey Breakoffs: An Experiment ; 2009; Sakshaug, J. W., Crawford, S. D.