Web Survey Bibliography
A large number of experiments in recent years have manipulated incentives in telephone and face-to-face surveys, complementing the earlier, and even more voluminous, research literature on the effects of incentives in mail surveys. These experiments are based loosely on various forms of exchange theory (e.g. Adams, 1965; Berger et al., 1972; Homans, 1961, 1974), though many are quite atheoretical. This chapter synthesizes findings about the effects of incentives from both interviewer-mediated and mail surveys in order to increase their usefulness for practicing survey researchers and to stimulate more targeted research by survey methodologists. It reviews what is known about the intended effects of incentives on response rates in both types of surveys, drawing on two existing meta analyses (Church, 1993; Singer et al., 1999) as well as on subsequent work by the same and other authors. It also reviews what is known about such unintended consequences of incentives as effects on response quality and sample composition, concerns about equity, and the development of expectation effects (Groves et al., 1999; Singer, Groves, and Corning, 1999; Singer, Van Hoewyk, and Maher, 1998, 2000). Finally, it discusses issues of cost effectiveness and suggests avenues of further research. Because of the additional complexities introduced in organizational surveys, they are not included in the present review.
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Web survey bibliography - Singer, E. (17)
- Informed Consent for Web Paradata Use; 2013; Couper, M. P., Singer, E.
- Incentives for college student participation in web-based substance use surveys; 2013; Patrick, M. E., Singer, E., Boyd, C. J., Cranford, J. A., McCabe, S. E.
- The Use and Effects of Incentives in Surveys; 2012; Singer, E.
- The Uses of Open-Ended Questions in Quantitative Surveys; 2011; Singer, E., Couper, M. P.
- Toward a Benefit-Cost Theory of Survey Participation: Evidence, Further Tests, and Implications; 2011; Singer, E.
- Communicating Disclosure Risk in Informed Consent Statements; 2010; Singer, E., Couper, M. P.
- Ethical Considerations in the Use of Paradata in Web Surveys; 2009; Couper, M. P., Singer, E.
- Survey Methodology (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology); 2009; Groves, R. M., Fowler, F. J., Couper, M. P., Lepkowski, J. M., Singer, E., Tourangeau, R.
- Privacy, confidentiality, and response burden as factors in telephone survey nonresponse; 2008; Singer, E., Presser, S.
- Introduction nonresponse bias in household surveys ; 2006; Singer, E.
- Experiments in Producing Nonresponse Bias ; 2006; Groves, R. M., Couper, M. P., Presser, S., Singer, E., Tourangeau, R., Piani Acosta, G., Nelson, Li.
- Does Voice Matter? An Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Experiment; 2004; Couper, M. P., Singer, E., Tourangeau, R.
- Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questions; 2004; Presser, S., Couper, M. P., Lessler, J. T., Martin, E., Martin, J., Rothgeb, J. M., Singer, E.
- Understanding the effects of audio-CASI on self-reports of sensitive behavior; 2003; Couper, M. P., Singer, E., Tourangeau, R.
- The use of incentives to reduce nonresponse household surveys; 2002; Singer, E.
- Leverage-saliency theory of survey participation; 2000; Groves, R. M., Singer, E., Corning, A.
- The Effect of Incentives on Response Rates in Interviewer-Mediated Surveys; 1999; Singer, E., van Hoewyk, J., Gebler, N., Raghunathan, T., McGonagle, K.