Web Survey Bibliography
As multi-mode surveys become the dominant methodology, questions have emerged about the optimal way to combine different modes. Is it best to offer all of the modes simultaneously, allowing respondents to choose their preferred mode of response, or is it best to offer first one mode and then another consecutively? Studies have shown that offering modes concurrently can depress response rates, a phenomenon sometimes called the “paradox of choice.” (Medway and Fulton 2012; Millar and Dillman 2011). According to this research, when respondents are provided with a choice of modes, they are less likely to respond by any mode. Consequently, there has been increased interest in determining how to best offer modes sequentially in order to increase survey response. For the 2010 IRS Individual Taxpayer Burden (ITB) Survey, an experiment compared a sequential administration (beginning with a Web survey) with a single mode, mail-only administration. The mail-only administration resulted in a higher response rate (44.1%) than an administration that offered first the Web survey and then the mail survey (40.9%).When planning for the 2011 ITB Survey, however, it was not an option to conduct a mail-only survey given federal government technology requirements. Therefore, it was decided that the 2011 ITB should follow the successful mail-only administration, with a simultaneous Web option. In an attempt to avoid the “paradox of choice,” the Web survey was offered in an understated way. While there has been very low Web survey response, overall response rates for the 2011 ITB Survey have so far been significantly higher than the 2010 survey (48.5%).This paper explores the success (and drawbacks) of this type of concurrent offering. The results of this administration suggest that it is possible to offer modes simultaneously if one mode is considered the primary mode and other modes are offered less prominently.
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Web survey bibliography - 2013 (465)
- The role of gamification in better accessing reality and hence increasing data validity ; 2015; Bailey, P.; Kernohan, H.; Pritchard, G.
- Rewarding the Truth; 2015; Puleston, J.
- Tailored fieldwork design to increase representative household survey response: an experiment in the...; 2015; Luiten, A.; Schouten, B.
- Challenges with Online Research for Couples and Families: Evaluating Nonrespondents and the Differential...; 2015; Busby, D. M.; Yoshida, Ke.
- Do Incentives Commoditize Surveys Or Reinforce The Relationship Economy?; 2014; Murphy, L.
- Is it what you say, or how you say It? An experimental analysis of the effects of invitation wording...; 2014; Fazekas, Z., Wall, M. T., Krouwel, A.
- Asking Sensitive Questions: An Evaluation of the Randomized Response Technique Versus Direct Questioning...; 2013; Wolter, F.; Preisendoerfer, P.
- Developing an Inclusive Web Survey Design for Respondents with Disabilities; 2013; Jagger, J.; Schaad, A.; Davis, As.; Falcone, A. E.
- The Impact of Survey Communications on Response Rates and Response Quality; 2013; Barlas, F. M.; Falcone, A. E.; Bellamy, N. D.; Mack, A. R.
- The Smartphone Way to Collect Survey Data; 2013; Stapleton, C.
- A Glimpse Inside the Mind of a Respondent: Using Paradata to Improve Online Surveys; 2013; Pape, T.; Barron, S.
- Respondent Choice of Survey Mode; 2013; Fuchs, M.
- Mobile-Mostly Internet Users and Noncoverage in Traditional Web Surveys ; 2013; Antoun, C.; Couper, M. P.
- Pret met panels [Fun online]; 2013; Roberts, A., de Leeuw, E. D., Hox, J., Klausch, L. T., de Jongh, A.
- Leuker kunnen wij het wel maken. Online vragenlijst design: standaard matrix of scrollmatrix (We can...; 2013; Roberts, A., de Leeuw, E. D., Hox, J., Klausch, L. T., de Jongh, A.
- Development and validation of a single- item scale for the relative assessment of physical attractiveness...; 2013; Lutz, J.; Kemper, C. J.; Beierlein, C.; etc.
- Accounting for the Effects of Data Collection Method Application to the International Tobacco Control...; 2013; Thompson, M. E.; Huang, Y. C.; Boudreau, C.; Fong, G. T.; van den Putte, B.; Nagelhout, G. E.; Willemsen...
- A dual-frame sampling methodology to address landline replacement in tobacco control research..; 2013; McMillen, R. C.; Winickoff, J. P.; Wilson, K.; Tanski, S.; Klein, J. D.
- User Modeling via Machine Learning and Rule-Based Reasoning to Understand and Predict Errors in Survey...; 2013; Stuart, L. C.
- Measuring Mobile Phone Use: Self-Report Versus Log Data; 2013; Boase, J., Ling, R.
- How Sliders Bias Survey Data; 2013; Sellers, R.
- Does the first impression count? Examining the effect of the welcome screen design on the response rate...; 2013; Haer, R., Meidert, N.
- Survey Research Response Rates: Internet Technology vs. Snail Mail ; 2013; Lanier, P. A., Tanner, J. R., Totaro, M. W., Gradnigo, G.
- The impact of New Zealand's 2008 prohibition of piperazine-based party pills on young people'...; 2013; Sheridan, J., Dong, C. Y., Butler, R., Barnes, J.
- PRM144 – An adaptable methodology for the design, implementation and conduct of a web-based survey...; 2013; Yeomans, K., Kawata, A. K., Bassel, M., Burk, C. T., Daniels, S. R., Wilcox, T. K.
- The relationships among nurses' job characteristics and attitudes toward web-based continuing learning...; 2013; Chiu, Y.-L., Tsai, C.-C., Fan Chiang, C.-Y.
- Surveillance of patients post-endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR). A web-based survey...; 2013; Patel, A., Edwards, R., Chandramohan, S.
- How well do volunteer web panel surveys measure sensitive behaviours in the general population, and...; 2013; Erens, B., Burkill, S., Copas, A., Couper, M. P., Conrad, F.
- Tailoring mode of data collection in longitudinal studies; 2013; Kaminska, O., Lynn, P.
- Comparison of Three Modes for a Crime Victimization Survey; 2013; Laaksonen, S., Heiskanen, M.
- Community Life Survey: Summary of web experiment findings; 2013
- Does Stress Increase the Risk of Atopic Dermatitis in Adolescents? Results of the Korea Youth Risk Behavior...; 2013; Kwon, J. A., Lee, M., Park, E.-C., Park, S., Yoo, K.-B.
- The Short-term Campaign Panel of the German Longitudinal Election Study 2009. Design, Implementation...; 2013; Steinbrecher, M., Rossmann, J.
- Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 5: results from methodological experiments; 2013; Auspurg, K., Burton, J., Cullinane, C., Delavande, A., Fumagalli, L., Iacovou, M., Jaeckle, A., Kaminska...
- Bringing usability to pretesting of Business Survey Web Forms in Statistics Finland; 2013; Rouhunkoski, J.
- How do we Know Cognitive Interviewing is Any Good?; 2013; Willis, G. B.
- Survey optimisation considerations for Android, Apple and Windows 8 mobile devices; 2013; Owen, R.
- Speeding in Web Surveys: The tendency to answer very fast and its association with straightlining; 2013; Conrad, F. G.; Zhang, Che.
- About the Institute of Public Health - Data aspect; 2013; Zaletel, M.
- Analyzing Paradata to Investigate Measurement Error; 2013; Yan, T., Olson, K.
- Too Fast, Too Straight, Too Weird: Post Hoc Identification of Meaningless Data in Internet ; 2013; Leiner, D. J.
- Can timestamp analyses show the bottlenecks in web surveys?; 2013; Andreadis, I.
- Timing in a web based survey: an influential factor of the response rate; 2013; Paraschiv, D.-C.
- Achieving Synergy Across Survey Modes: Mail Contact and Web Responses from Address-Based Samples; 2013; Dillman, D. A.
- The Future of Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research; 2013; Hill, C., Dever, J. A.
- Collecting Diary Data on Twitter; 2013; Richards, A., Dean, E., Cook, S.
- Second Life as a Survey Lab: Exploring the Randomized Response Technique in a Virtual Setting; 2013; Richards, A., Dean, E.
- Virtual Cognitive Interviewing Using Skype and Second Life; 2013; Dean, E., Head, B., Swicegood, J. E.
- Sentiment Analysis: Providing Categorical Insight into Unstructured Textual Data; 2013; Haney, C.
- Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research; 2013; Hill, C., Dean, E., Murphy, J.