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Activity Number: 120
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 1, 2016 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
Abstract #320767
Title: Elusive Respondents: Target Interventions for Challenging Geographic 'Hot-Spots'
Author(s): Catherine C. Haggerty* and Kate Bachtell and Katherine Archambeau and Karen Veldman and Shannon Nelson and Ella Kemp
Companies: NORC at the University of Chicago and NORC at the University of Chicago and NORC at the University of Chicago and NORC at the University of Chicago and NORC at the University of Chicago and NORC at the University of Chicago
Keywords: hard-to-contact ; paradata
Abstract:

Every three years the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) is conducted to collect personal income and family finance data from a national area probability and list sample with a lengthy and complex survey instrument. The survey faces challenges in gaining cooperation from households due to the sensitive nature of the study. Since 2004 the field period had to be extended to reach both the targeted response rate and targeted number of completed cases. For the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances (2016 SCF), and most surveys seeking high response rates, the pursuit of elusive respondents is necessary and both a lengthy and labor intensive process. To target special efforts designed to shorten start to finish time and reduce total labor associated with these respondents we have identified specific places from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances with both a higher than average incidence of number of contacts and longer than average time in-between the first and last contact. We will describe the places with a high percentage of hard-to-contact cases, and the characteristics of these cases, to identify ways in which we might reduce the level of effort and improve the outcomes of these more difficult cases.


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