Web Survey Bibliography
NSD has been member of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) since 1989. From the beginning, the ISSP surveys in Norway were administered as self-completion, paper and pencil mail surveys, the target population being people aged 16/18 to 79 years, residing in Norway, regardless of nationality and dwelling. The survey samples have been selected as SRS from the Central Register of Persons in Norway, providing sampling lists of named individuals with addresses and the characteristics gender, year of birth and marital status. Up to 2004 the unit nonresponse was stable, varying between 37 and 43 percent. With respect to gender and age net samples were slightly biased, due to higher unit nonresponse among elderly women (65+) and younger men (34-), beyond what could be ascribed to random variation only. From 2004 we have however seen the well-known picture of dramatically increasing unit nonresponse, reaching 50 percent in 2005 and 57 percent in 2007. Since 2008 it has levelled out on approximately 60 percent. The increased unit nonresponse has not been evenly distributed by gender and age. Younger rather than elderly women now seem to be underrepresented in the net samples, but this is not yet a consistent trend. Nonresponse among younger men has however increased more than other age-by-gender groups, reaching as high as 74 percent. High nonresponse rates pose a major threat to survey quality as they might cause biased estimators for the target population when respondents differ from nonrespondents on the variables of interest. As seen above, significant bias and changing bias patterns can be identified with respect to age and gender. The same could apply to important characteristics we can’t control for directly on individual level, for example education. During the last years NSD has therefore increasingly focused on planned mixed-mode designs, based on assumptions emerging in the literature about than ten years ago, that tailored questionnaires and implementations offering respondents (some) freedom of choice can reduce nonresponse and also improve data quality. In the ISSP survey fielded early in 2011, a web and a paper questionnaire were offered to the sample units A split-ballot design testing contact design (first contact and further follow-up of respondents) was implemented. In the presentation we will report on some results from the survey with respect to nonresponse, mode preferences, split ballot and data quality.
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Web survey bibliography - Other (439)
- What can be said about quality in the Central Population Register based on a self-completion survey...; 2012; Falnes-Dalheim, E., Pedersen, H. E.
- Boosting Web pick-up Rates by referring to Compliance Principles ; 2012; Falnes-Dalheim, E., Haraldsen, G., Sundvoll, A.
- Subjective Well-being Of Spanish Workers: Continuous Voluntary Web Survey Examination; 2012; de Pedraza, P., Guzi, M.
- Facing The Future Webcams as a survey tool in China; 2012; Gordon, A., Llewellyn, T., Gu, E.
- Reality check in the digital age: The relationship between what we ask and what people actually do; 2012; Hofmeyr, J., Louw, A.
- WEBDATANET: web-based data-collection methodological challenges, solutions and implementations. Action...; 2012; de Pedraza, P.
- WebSM Study: Survey software features overview ; 2012; Vehovar, V., Cehovin, G., Kavcic, L., Lenar, J.
- Use of Web 2.0 to Recruit Australian Gay Men to an Online HIV/AIDS Survey; 2012; Theriault, N., Bi, P., Hiller, J. E., Nor, M.
- Evaluation of an online (opt-in) panel for public participation geographic information systems surveys...; 2012; Brown, G., Weber, D., Zanon, D., de Bie, K.
- Measures of Data Quality Across the RDD Frames; 2012; Lavrakas, P. J.
- Collecting data electronically from enterprises – searching for the right approach; 2012; Keating, J., Portillo, S.
- Psychometric properties of an internet administered version of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability...; 2012; Vesteinsdottir, V., Reips, U.-D., Joinson, A. N., Porsdottir, F.
- Analysis of coverage bias for the implementation of web surveys in Spain; 2012; de Pedraza, P., Serrano, F.
- Presidential Elections in Iceland 2012 – Did online panel surveys give false hope to new candidates...; 2012; Jonsdottir, G. A., Dofradottir, A. G., Bjornsdottir, A. E.
- Website exit surveys. What can we measure with them?; 2012; Andreadis, I.
- Analyzing Functionalities for Online Questionnaire System (OQS); 2012; Atown, H. Y.
- Bringing data from an online survey or spreadsheet into SPSS; 2012; Raftery, D.
- Exploring the impact of animation-based questionnaire on conducting a web-based educational survey and...; 2012; Chien, Y.-T., Chang, C.-Y.
- The “frequency divide”: implications for internet-based surveys; 2012; Vicente, P., Reis, E.
- Open-ended Questions in Web Surveys: One Large vs. Ten Small Boxes; 2012; Keusch, F.
- The influence of social desirability on data quality in face-to-face and web surveys; 2012; Keusch, F.
- User models as revealed in web-based research services; 2012; Bodoff, D., Raban, D.
- Who should supervise students during self-report interviews? A controlled experiment on response behavior...; 2012; Walser, S., Killias, M.
- Using Webinar Polls to Collect Online Survey Data: The Case of a Behavioral Finance Problem; 2012; Sahu, C.
- Online Questionnaires for Outbreak Investigations; 2011; Parry, A. E.; Johnson, D. R.; Byron-Gray, K.; Raupach, J. C. A.; McPherson, M.
- Inventory of published research: Response burden measurement and reduction in official business statistics...; 2011; Giesen, D. & Snijkers, G. (Eds.), Bavdaz, M., Bergstrom, Y., Gravem, D. F., Haraldsen, G., Hedlin, D...
- Understanding the new digital divide—A typology of Internet users in Europe; 2011; Brandtzæg, P.B.; Heim, J.; Karahasanoviæ, A.
- Patients’ attitudes toward side effects of antidepressants: an Internet survey; 2011; Kikuchi, T., Uchida, H., Suzuki, T., Watanabe, K., Kashima, H.
- Web-based or paper-based surveys: a quandary?; 2011; Bennett, L., Sid Nair, C.
- Less questions, more data: Revitalizing the european currency in single source affluent audience measurement...; 2011; Hartman, H.
- Methodological challenges in the use of the Internet for scientific research: Ten solutions and recommendations...; 2011; Reips, U.-D., Buchanan, T., Krantz, J. H., McGrawn, K.Reips, U.-D.
- Using Internet in Stated Preference Surveys: A Review and Comparison of Survey Modes; 2011; Lindhjem, H., Navrud, S.
- The impact of cookie deletion on site-server and ad-server metrics in Australia. An empirical comScore...; 2011
- Mobile, webmail, desktops: Where are we viewing email now?; 2011
- Evaluating the usability of personal digital assistants to collect behavioral data on adolescents with...; 2011; McClamroch, K. J.
- Eurobarometer Special surveys: EB75.1 E-Communications Household Survey. Special Eurobarometer 362; 2011
- Classic Inspirations for Social Research Methodology in the time of Online Access Panels ; 2011; Jerabek, H.
- Background - QSOAP; 2011
- Facial imaging: The new face of online survey research; 2011; Gordon, A., McCallum, D., Sorci, M., Llewellyn, T.
- The optimal number of response options in internet panel surveys; 2011; Thorsdottir, F.
- Romanian financing opportunities for the action; 2011; Moga, L.
- Collecting information with Knowledge technologies; 2011; Foulonneau, M.
- Utilizing Web Technology in Business Data Collection: Some Norwegian, Dutch and Danish Experiences; 2011; Snijkers, G., Haraldsen, G., Stax, H.-P.
- Experiences with mixed mode mail & web-enquêtes in probability samples with known individuals; 2011; Kalgraff Skjak, K., Kolsrud, K.
- The use of paradata to improve data collection at Statistics Canada: Empirical results and research; 2011; Gambino, J., Wrighte, D.
- A new online building survey system; 2011; Wang, Yic.
- A Comparison of Internet-Based Participant Recruitment Methods: Engaging the Hidden Population of Cannabis...; 2011; Temple, E. C., Brown, R. F.
- Experiences with the online questionnaire on www.csfd.cz as a part of mixed research; 2011; Kratka, J.
- Administered versus self-administered online surveys: Are the findings comparable?; 2011; de Rada, V. D.
- Methodological Issues in Internet-Mediated Research: A Randomized Comparison of Internet Versus Mailed...; 2011; Whitehead, L.