Investigating respondent multitasking in web surveys using paradata

Methods for Evaluating Respondent Attrition in Web-Based Surveys

BACKGROUND Electronic surveys are convenient, cost effective, and increasingly popular tools for collecting information. While the online platform allows researchers to recruit and enroll more participants, there is an increased risk of participant dropout in Web-based research. Often, these dropout trends are simply reported, adjusted for, or ignored altogether. OBJECTIVE To propose a concep...

Using paradata to explore item level response times in surveys

We analyse item level keystroke data from cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family Growth, which is a survey on fertility and related topics that is conducted in the USA. The National Survey of Family Growth is conducted among both males and females by using computer-assisted personal visit interviews and an audio computer-assisted self-interviewing component for the most sensitive topics. Our ...

Using Advance Respondent Letters in Random-digit-dialing Telephone Surveys

The rationale for the use of an advance respondent letter is based on the experience of survey researchers that contact before an actual interview attempt “warmsup” respondents, hopefully making them more positively disposed toward participation than if they were only to receive a “cold call.” The logic is that using advance respondent letters will increase response rates, thereby reducing the ...

surveys : issues in data collection on multitasking

Secondary-activity reports from the American Time Use Survey are not as good as those from the Family Interaction, Social Capital, and Trends in Time Use survey; statistical analysis reveals that the difference is attributable to the fact that such reports are requested in the former, but volunteered in the latter T ime-use surveys collect information on how people spend their time. In the Amer...

Respondent-Generated Intervals (RGI) For Recall in Sample Surveys