Web Survey Bibliography
When designing a Web questionnaire, various HTML input elements can be used to register the respondent’s answers. Two of these input elements, radio-buttons and drop-down boxes, can be regarded as technically equivalent since they serve the same purpose: they both allow to select one answer from a list of response options. However, these input elements are dissimilar from each other in many respects and there is reason to believe that some people are less familiar with drop-down boxes. By means of two experiments, this study evaluates the effect of the two response formats on data quality. Lower data quality was expected in the drop-down boxes condition than in the radio-buttons condition. The data showed that a slight preference for radio-buttons might be justified, although both response formats have benefits and drawbacks. Consequently, the choice between these response formats is not self-evident and needs to be guided by other considerations such as sample composition and survey design.
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Web survey bibliography - Heerwegh, D. (10)
- Using Internet survey paradata to optimize survey questionnaire design; 2009; Heerwegh, D.
- Mode Differences Between Face-to-Face and Web Surveys: An Experimental Investigation of Data Quality...; 2009; Heerwegh, D.
- Web survey paradata: Understanding respondent’s behavior and evaluating survey questions; 2007; Heerwegh, D.
- An investigation of the effect of lotteries on web survey response rates; 2006; Heerwegh, D.
- The effect of personalization on response rates and data quality in web surveys; 2005; Heerwegh, D., Vanhove, T., Matthijs, K., Loosveldt, G.
- Using progress indicators in web surveys; 2004; Heerwegh, D.
- An Evaluation of the Semiautomatic Login Procedure to Control Web Survey Access; 2003; Heerwegh, D., Loosveldt, G.
- Using client side paradata to evaluate respondent behavior in Web surveys; 2002; Heerwegh, D.
- An evaluation of the effect of response formats on data quality in Web surveys; 2002; Heerwegh, D., Loosveldt, G.
- Web Surveys: The Effect of Controlling Survey Access using PIN Numbers; 2002; Heerwegh, D., Loosveldt, G.