The Value of the Increasing Effort to Maintain High Response Rates in Telephone Surveys

Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Richard Strouse

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Abstract: Using the Community Tracking Study Household Survey, a health services survey of roughly 30,000 families per round based on a national RDD sample, the authors examine the impact on key survey estimates of different simulated levels of effort.

Keywords: RDD survey; response rate; refusal conversion; call attempts; nonresponse bias; Community Tracking Study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8
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