Comparison of Survey Data Collection Methods
| Autor: | VIDAL DÍAZ DE RADA, Juan Antonio Domínguez Álvarez |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (REIS), Vol 1, Iss 158, Pp 137-148 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1988-5903 0210-5233 |
| Popis: | This paper presents the results of a mixed-mode survey of the general population using a combination of postal, telephone, and Internet survey protocols. Potential respondents were invited to participate by ordinary mail and were allowed to choose their preferred response mode. The paper focuses on response quality (taking non-responses into consideration), fieldwork time and data collection cost. The results reveal that the Internet survey produces the lowest rate of non-responses and requires significantly less fieldwork time, although it is slightly more costly than the postal survey. However, when differences in cost structure are taken into account, we find that the same number of completed questionnaires could have been obtained through the Internet alone at a cost that is 18.2% lower than the mixed-mode survey. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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