Effects and Costs of Tracing Strategies on Nonresponse Bias in a Survey of Workers with Low-Back Injury
| Autor: | Elena M. Andresen, John T. Chibnall, C. Renea Machuga, Mary Ellen Van Booven, Raymond C. Tait, John Egel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Sociology and Political Science Communication General Social Sciences Sample (statistics) Tracing medicine.disease Representativeness heuristic Back injury Telephone survey History and Philosophy of Science Respondent medicine Non-response bias Psychology Social psychology Low back Demography |
| Zdroj: | Public Opinion Quarterly. 72:40-54 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5331 0033-362X |
| DOI: | 10.1093/poq/nfm055 |
| Popis: | Declining rates of participation are an increasing challenge for studies that involve telephone surveys. This study examined the costs of a telephone survey methodology that used increasingly intensive trac- ing methods to track a pool of claimants who had sustained occupational back injuries. It also compared the respondent sample to people who refused the survey and/or were not located or contacted. 3,181 claimants were drawn from a database maintained by the Missouri Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) and 1,475 completed a telephone inter- view. The DWC database provided data reflecting monetary and disabil- ity outcomes for all potential participants; telephone interviews provided additional self-reported data. More intensive tracing strategies improved the representativeness of the sample, yielding more women and minority participants. Relative to less intensive techniques, advanced tracing ef- forts located people whose DWC records were more similar to claimants not located. While the hands-on tracing efforts reduced the apparent bias of the respondent sample, costs increased as tracing strategies in- tensified - over $98,000 was spent to trace 1,027 claimants who were never located or contacted. The results suggest some guidelines that may |
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