Web Survey Bibliography
This paper examines respondent reactions to and performance on a CASI (computer-assisted selfinterview) portion of a CAPI (computer-assisted personal interview) survey. We first examine whether there are systematic differences between those who choose to do CASI themselves and those who seek the aid of the interviewer in completing these items. We then explore whether the decision to do CASI has any impact on the quality of data collected. This study appears to be virtually unique in the respect that a record was kept of whether respondents actually completed the CASI items themselves, or had the interviewer assist them. We found that 21% of respondents used some form of interviewer assistance in completing the self-administered items. In most other studies including self-administered portions (whether computer-assisted or paper-and-pencil), there is little discussion of this issue (see for example, Jobe et al., 1994; O'Reilly et aL, 1994; Tumer, Lessler and Devore, 1992). We infer from this that one of three things may have occurred: (a) respondents were pressured into completing the items themselves, (b) interviewers assisted respondents, or (c) these cases were treated as nonresponding units. We suspect that the second option may be likely in many surveys containing selfadministered components. Given that interviewer administration may defeat the purpose of self completion (increased privacy leading to more truthful reporting of highly sensitive behavior), it is important to examine the extent to which this might be happening. The Self Portraits Study, the subject of the present paper, also differed from other self-administered surveys in two other respects. First, many self-administered modules of surveys are designed to elicit reports of highly sensitive and sometimes illegal behaviors, such as drug use and high-risk sexual practices, whereas the Self Portraits CASI questions were of a more general attitudinal nature. Second, many of the CASI applications to date have been on surveys of younger persons, a group that may be regarded as comfortable, or at least familiar, with computer technology. Self Portraits, in contrast, included older persons. Although these differences may limit the generalizability of these results to other CASI studies, they also facilitate certain analyses which might otherwise not be possible. Specifically, we can examine respondent preferences (as evidenced by their behavior) for self-completion versus interviewer-completion of CASI items.
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Web survey bibliography - Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ) (90)
- Necessary but Insufficient: Why Measurement Invariance Tests Need Online Probing as a Complementary...; 2017; Meitinger, K.
- Nonresponse in Organizational Surveying: Attitudinal Distribution Form and Conditional Response Probabilities...; 2017; Kulas, J. T.; Robinson, D. H.; Kellar, D. Z.; Smith, J. A.
- Theory and Practice in Nonprobability Surveys: Parallels between Causal Inference and Survey Inference...; 2017; Mercer, A. W.; Kreuter, F.; Keeter, S.; Stuart, E. A.
- Is There a Future for Surveys; 2017; Miller, P. V.
- Respondent mode choice in a smartphone survey ; 2017; Conrad, F. G., Schober, M. F., Antoun, C., Yan, H. Y., Hupp, A., Johnston, M., Ehlen, P., Vickers, L...
- Effects of Mobile versus PC Web on Survey Response Quality: a Crossover Experiment in a Probability...; 2017; Antoun, C.; Couper, M. P.; G. G.Conrad, F. G.
- The Low Response Score (LRS): A Metric to Locate, Predict, and Manage Hard-to-Survey Populations; 2016; Erdman, C.; Bates, N.
- Targeted Appeals for Participation in Letters to Panel Survey Members; 2016; Lynn, P.
- Fieldwork Effort, Response Rate, and the Distribution of Survey Outcomes: A Multilevel Meta-analysis; 2016; Sturgis, P.; Williams, Jo.; Brunton-Smith, I.; Moore, J.
- Measuring Generalized Trust: An Examination of Question Wording and the Number of Scale Points; 2016; Lundmark, S.; Giljam, M.; Dahlberg, S.
- Social Media Analyses for Social Measurement; 2016; Schober, M. F.; Pasek, J.; Guggenheim, L.; Lampe, C.; Conrad, F. G.
- Do Attempts to Improve Respondent Attention Increase Social Desirability Bias?; 2015; Clifford, S.; Jerit, J.
- Response Rates, Nonresponse Bias, and Data Quality: Results from a National Survey of Senior Healthcare...; 2015; Meterko, M.; Restuccia, J. D.; Stolzmann, K.; Mohr, D.; Brennan, C. W.; Glasgow, J.; Kaboli, P.
- Respondent Screening and Revealed Preference Axioms: Testing Quarantining Methods for Enhanced Data...; 2015; Jones, M. S.; House, L. A.; Zhifeng, G.
- Exploring the Effects of Removing "Too Fast" Responses and Respondents from Web Surveys; 2015; Greszki, R.; Meyer, M.; Schoen, H.
- The Effects of the Direction of Rating Scales on Survey Responses in a Telephone Survey; 2015; Keusch, F., Yan, T.
- Assessing the Potential of Paradata and Other Auxiliary Data for Nonresponse Adjustments; 2014; Krueger, B. S., West, B. T.
- Improving Response Rates and Questionnaire Design for Mobile Web Surveys; 2014; de Bruijne, M., Wijnant, A.
- Assessing Within-Household Selection Methods in Household Mail Surveys; 2014; Olson, K., Stange, M., Smyth, J. D.
- Mobile Technologies for Conducting, Augmenting and Potentially Replacing Surveys: Report of the AAPOR...; 2014; Link, M. W., Murphy, J., Schober, M. F., Buskirk, T. D., Childs, J. H., Tesfaye, C.
- Clicking vs. Dragging: Different Uses of the Mouse and Their Implications for Online Surveys; 2014; Sikkel, D., Steenbergen, R., Gras, S.
- The Effect of Benefit Wording on Consent to Link Survey and Administrative Records in a Web Survey; 2014; Sakshaug, J. W., Kreuter, F.
- Video Content in Web Surveys: Effects on Selection Bias and Validity; 2013; Shapiro-Luft, D., Cappella, J.
- Panel Conditioning in Difficult Attitudinal Questions; 2013; Binswanger, J., Schunk, D., Toepoel, V.
- Clarifying Categorical Concepts in a Web Survey.; 2013; Redline, C. D.
- Recruiting A Probability Sample For An Online Panel: Effects Of Contact Mode, Incentives, And Information...; 2012; Scherpenzeel, A., Toepoel, V.
- Does Giving People Their Preferred Survey Mode Actually Increase Survey Participation Rates?; 2012; Olson, K., Smyth, J. D., Wood, H.
- The changing role of address-based sampling in survey research; 2011; Iannacchione, V. G.
- Measuring americans' issue priorities. A new version of the most important problem question reveals...; 2011; Yeager, D. S., Larson, S. B., Krosnick, J. A., Tompson, T.
- Questions for Surveys: Current Trends and Future Directions; 2011; Schaeffer, N. C., Schaeffer, N. C.
- The Future of Modes of Data Collection; 2011; Couper, M. P.
- The Future of Survey Sampling; 2011; Brick, J. M.
- The Impact of “Forgiving” Introductions on the Reporting of Sensitive Behavior in Surveys...; 2011; Peter, J., Valkenburg, P. M.
- Surveying the General Public over the Internet Using Address-Based Sampling and Mail Contact Procedures...; 2011; Messer, B. L., Dillman, D. A.
- Use of Cognitive Shortcuts in Landline and Cell Phone Surveys; 2011; Everett, S. E., Kennedy, C.
- An Alternative to the Response Rate for Measuring a Survey's Realization of the Target Population; 2011; Skalland, B.
- Can Verbal Instructions Counteract Visual Context Effects in Web Surveys?; 2011; Toepoel, V., Couper, M. P.
- Nonresponse Error, Measurement Error, And Mode Of Data Collection: Tradeoffs in a Multi-mode Survey...; 2011; Sakshaug, J. W., Yan, T., Tourangeau, R.
- A Method for Evaluating Mode Effects in Mixed-mode Surveys; 2011; Vannieuwenhuyze, J., Loosveldt, G., Molenberghs, G.
- Total Survey Error: past, present, and future; 2010; Groves, R. M., Lyberg, L. E.
- Research synthesis. AAPOR report on online panels; 2010; Brick, J. M., Baker, R., Blumberg, S. J., Couper, M. P., Courtright, M., Dennis, J. M., Dillman, D....
- Recruiting probability samples for a multi-mode research panel with Internet and mail components; 2010; Rao, K.
- Cell-Phone-Only Voters in the 2008 Exit Poll and Implications for Future Noncoverage Bias ; 2009; Mokrzycki, M., Keeter, S., Kennedy, C.
- Zero Banks: Coverage Error and Bias in Rdd Samples Based on Hundred Banks with Listed Numbers ; 2009; Boyle, J., Bucuvalas, M., Piekarski, L., Weiss, A.
- National Surveys Via RDD Telephone Interviewing vs. the Internet: Comparing Sample Representativeness...; 2009; Chang, L. C., Krosnick, J. A.
- Impact of T-ACASI on Survey Measurements of Subjective Phenomena ; 2009; Harmon, T., Rogers, S. M., Eggleston, E., Roman, A. M., Villarroel, M. A., Chromy, J. R., Ganapathi,...
- Open-Ended Questions in Web Surveys: Can Increasing the Size of Answer Boxes and Providing Extra Verbal...; 2009; Smyth, J. D., Dillman, D. A., Christian, L. M., McBride, M.
- Web Survey Methods: Introduction; 2009; Couper, M. P., Miller, P. V.
- Social desirability bias in CATI, IVR and Web surveys: The effects of mode and question sensitivity; 2008; Kreuter, F., Presser, S., Tourangeau, R.
- Does a Probability-Based Household Panel Benefit from Assignment to Postal Response as an Alternative...; 2008; Rookey, B. D., Hanway, S., Dillman, D. A.