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Title Understanding the Impact of Lottery Incentives on Web Survey Participation and Response Quality; A Leverage-salience Theory Perspective
Source Field Methods; 29, 1, pp. 42-60
Year 2016
Access date 24.07.2017
Abstract Cumulative evidence is mixed regarding the effect of lottery incentives on survey participation; little is known about why this strategy sometimes works and other times fails. We examined two factors that can influence the effectiveness of lottery incentives as suggested by leverage-salience theory: emphasis of survey attributes in invitations and characteristics of target populations. We conducted a web survey experiment where one condition highlighted lottery incentives in the e-mail invitations (incentive-centered condition) and the other highlighted the value of the survey with a brief mention of the lottery (survey-centered condition). We found that the incentive-centered condition had a significantly higher response rate than the survey-centered condition, especially among individuals with a relatively low income. Although invitation emphasis affected respondent compositions regarding motives for participation, the differences in response quality between the two experimental conditions were small and mostly not significant.
Year of publication2016
Bibliographic typeJournal article
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