Web Survey Bibliography
Background: Surveying persons with disabilities is challenging, as targeted subjects may experience specific barriers to survey participation. Here we report on participation rates and response behaviour in a community survey of people with spinal cord injury (SCI) in Switzerland. The cross-sectional survey was implemented as part of the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Cohort Study (SwiSCI) and represents the largest population-based SCI survey in Europe including nearly 2000 persons. Design features to enhance participation rates included the division of the questionnaire volume over three successive modules; recurrent and mixed-mode reminding of non-responders; and mixed-mode options for response. Methods: We describe participation rates of the SwiSCI community survey (absolute and cumulative cooperation, contact, response, and attrition rates) and report on response rates in relation to recruitment efforts. Potential non-response bias and the association between responders’ characteristics and response behaviour (response speed: reminding until participation; response mode: paper-pencil vs. online completion) were assessed using regression modelling. Results: Over the successive modules, absolute response rates were 61.1, 80.6 and 87.3 % which resulted in cumulative response rates of 49.3 and 42.6 % for the second and third modules. Written reminders effectively increased response rates, with the first reminder showing the largest impact. Telephone reminders, partly with direct telephone interviewing, enhanced response rate to the first module, but were essentially redundant in subsequent modules. Non-response to the main module was related to current age, membership of Swiss Paraplegic Association (SPA) and time since injury, but not to gender, lesion level and preferred language of response. Response speed increased with household income, but was not associated to other sociodemographic factors, lesion characteristics or health indicators. We found significant associations between online completion and male gender, younger age, higher education, higher income, SPA membership, tetraplegia, longer time since injury, higher quality of life, and more participation restrictions. Conclusion: In this sample with little non-response bias, recurrent and mixed-mode reminding and mixed-mode options for response were key features of optimizing survey design.
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Web survey bibliography (4086)
- App vs. Web for Surveys of Smartphone Users: Experimenting with mobile apps for signal-contingent experience...; 2015; McGeeney, K.; Keeter, S.; Igielnik, R.; Smith, A.; Rainie, L.
- Using Video to Reinvigorate the Open Question; 2015; Cape, P.
- On the Go: How Mobile Participants Affect Survey Results; 2015; Barlas, F. M.; Thomas, R. K.
- The Matrix Lives On: Improving Grids for Online Surveys; 2015; Thomas, R. K.; Barlas, F. M.; Graham, P.; Subias, T.
- Variance Estimation for Surveys from Internet Panels ; 2015; Rivers, D.
- Sensitivity Analysis of Bias of Estimates from Web Surveys with Nonrandomized Panel Selection; 2015; Beresovsky, V.
- Detecting Fraud in a Survey Sample Recruited Online; 2015; Brown, D.; Dever, J. A.; Augustson, E.; Squiers, L.
- Survey Treatments and Response Modes: Bayesian Survival Analysis with Competing Risks; 2015; Minato, H.
- Purposefully Mobile: Experimentally Assessing Device Effects in an Online Survey ; 2015; Barlas, F. M.; Thomas, R. K.; Graham, P.
- Use of Smartphones as a New Survey Mode: A Feasibility Study ; 2015; Hu, S.; Freedner-Maguire, N.; Dayton, J.; Neff, L.
- Using equivalence testing to disentangle selection and measurement in mixed modes surveys ; 2015; Cernat, A.
- What do web survey panel respondents answer when asked “Do you have any other comment?”; 2015; Schonlau, M.
- On Climbing Stairs Many Steps at a Time: The New Normal in Survey Methodology; 2015; Dillman, D. A.
- Mobile Research Methods: Opportunities and challenges of mobile research methodologies. ; 2015; Toninelli, D. (Ed.); Pinter, R.; de Pedraza, P.
- Effect of Web-Based Versus Paper-Based Questionnaires and Follow-Up Strategies on Participation Rates...; 2015; Kilsdonk, E.; van den Heuvel-Eibrink, M. M.; van Dulmen-den Broeder, E.; van der Pal, H. J. H.; van...
- Polling Error in the 2015 UK General Election: An Analysis of YouGov’s Pre and Post-Election Polls...; 2015; Wells, A.; Rivers, D.
- Cell Phone and Face-to-face Interview Responses in Population-based Sur- veys - How Do They Compare?; 2015; Ghandour, L.; Ghandour, B.; Mahfoud, Z.; Mokdad, A.; Sibai, A. M.
- Collecting Health Research Data - Comparing Mobile Phone-assisted Personal Interviewing to Paper-and...; 2015; van Heerden, A. C.; Norris, S. A.; Tollman, S. M.; Richter, L. M.
- The Effects of Questionnaire Completion Using Mobile Devices on Data Quality. Evidence from a Probability...; 2015; Bosnjak, M.; Struminskaya, B.; Weyandt, K.
- Are Sliders Too Slick for Surveys? An Experiment Comparing Slider and Radio Button Scales for Smartphone...; 2015; Aadland, D.; Aalberg, T.
- Evaluation of an Adapted Design in a Multi-device Online Panel: A DemoSCOPE Case Study; 2015; Arn, B.; Klug, S.; Kolodziejski, J.
- Maximizing Data Quality using Mode Switching in Mixed-Device Survey Design: Nonresponse Bias and Models...; 2015; Axinn, W.; Gatny, H. H.; Wagner, J.
- Web Surveys Optimized for Smartphones: Are there Differences Between Computer and Smartphone Users?; 2015; Andreadis, I.
- Usability of the ACS Internet Instrument on Mobile Devices; 2015; Horwitz, R.
- Explorations in Non - Probability Sampling Using the Web; 2015; Brick, J. M.
- On Bias Adjustments for Web Surveys; 2015; Fan, L.; Lou, W.; Landsman, V.
- Are they willing to use the web? First results of a possible switch from PAPI to CAPI/CAWI in an establishment...; 2015; Ellguth, P.; Kohaut, S.
- Web panel surveys – a challenge for official statistics; 2015; Svensson, J.
- Estimation with Non-probability Surveys and the Question of External Validity; 2015; Dever, J. A.; Valliant, R. L.
- Measurement Properties of Web Surveys; 2015; Tourangeau, R.
- Measuring Political Knowledge in Web-Based Surveys: An Experimental Validation of Visual Versus Verbal...; 2015; Munzert, S.; Selb, P.
- Validation of the new scale for measuring behaviors of Facebook users: Psycho-Social Aspects of Facebook...; 2015; Bodroza, B.; Jovanovic, T.
- Adding Postal Follow-Up to a Web-Based Survey of Primary Care and Gastroenterology Clinic Physician...; 2015; Partin, M. R.; Powell, A. A.; Burgess, D. J.; Haggstrom, D. A.; Gravely, A. A.; Halek, K.; Bangerter...
- Can Non-full-probability Internet Surveys Yield Useful Data? A Comparison with Full-probability Face...; 2015; Simmons, A.D.; Bobo, L. D.
- Participation rates, response bias and response behaviours in the community survey of the Swiss Spinal...; 2015; Fekete, C.; Segerer, W.; Gemperli, A.; Brinkhof, M.W.G.
- The Cathie Marsh lecture: What does the failure of the polls tell us about the future of survey research...; 2015; Sturgis, P., Matheson, J.
- GreenBook Research Industry Trends Report; 2015; Murphy, L. (Ed.)
- Designing web surveys for the multi-device internet; 2015; de Bruijne, M.
- Data Quality Standards in Mixed Mode Surveys; 2015; Bremer, J.; Barbulescu, M.; Bennett, J.
- Mobile Surveys for Kids: Making Surveys G-rated; 2015; Simpson, B.
- Changing from CAPI to CAWI in an ongoing household panel - experiences from the German Socio-Economic...; 2015; Schupp, J.; Sassenroth, D.
- Rating Scales in Web Surveys: A Test of New Drag-and-Drop Rating Procedures; 2015; Kunz, T.
- A Review of Issues in Gamified Surveys; 2015; Keusch, F.; Zhang, Che.
- Mobility Enabled: Effects of Mobile Devices on Survey Response and Substantive Measures; 2015; Barlas, F. M.; Randall, T. K.
- Innovations in Email Invitation Design for Today’s Digital World; 2015; Saunders, T.; Kessler, A.
- Gamification in Survey Research: Do The Results Support The Evangelists?; 2015; Pashupati, K.; Weber-Raley, L.
- What They Can’t See Can Hurt You: Improving Grids for Mobile Devices; 2015; Randall, T. K.; Barlas, F. M.; Graham, P.; Subias, T.
- Same, Same but Different: Effects of mixing Web and mail modes in audience research; 2015; Bergstroem, A.
- Comparison of telephone RDD and online panel survey modes on CPGI scores and co-morbidities; 2015; Lee, C.-K.; Back, K.-J.; Williams, Ro. J.; Ahn, S.-S.
- An Empirical Test of Nonresponse Bias in Internet Surveys; 2015; af Wahlberg, AE; Poom, L.