Web Survey Bibliography
To combat nonresponse, many surveys repeatedly follow up with nonrespondents, often targeting a response rate or fixed number of cases. Acknowledging returns diminish with each wave of data collection, a recently proposed stopping rule in the literature aims at determining when the current wave’s impact on a key survey estimate is inconsequential. The rule employs explicit imputation models, however, which require predictive covariates known for all sample units. This paper describes a stopping rule similar in spirit but applicable to surveys that reweight respondent records to adjust for nonresponse. The two methods are compared using data from a Web-based employee satisfaction survey. The weighting rule proves more conservative in the sense that it dictates more waves of data collection should occur. It is argued the difference is attributable to how the covariance of adjacent wave respondent data is incorporated.
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Web survey bibliography - WAPOR 64th Annual Conference, 2011 (6)
- Establishing Cross-National Equivalence of Measures of Xenophobia: Evidence from Probing in Web Surveys...; 2011; Braun, M., Behr, D., Kaczmirek, L.
- “Don’t know” the difference - An experimental comparison between Web and CATI; 2011; Schielicke, A.-M., Degen, M.
- A Survey Stopping Rule Based on Weighting for Unit Nonresponse; 2011; Lewis, T.
- Classic Inspirations for Social Research Methodology in the time of Online Access Panels ; 2011; Jerabek, H.
- Question Comprehensibility and Satisficing Behavior in Web Surveys; 2011; Lenzner, T.
- Examination of a ’Web Mode Effect’. An Experimental Comparison of Web and Paper Based Surveys...; 2011; Shamshiri-Petersen, D., Clement, S. L.