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Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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313
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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Abstract - #309070 |
Title:
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Experimenting with Pre-Contact Strategies for Reducing Nonresponse in an Economic Survey
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Author(s):
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Alfred David Tuttle*+ and Richard S. Hough and Jeri Mulrow and Kenneth M. Pick and Diane K. Willimack
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Companies:
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U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau and National Science Foundation and U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
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Address:
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4600 Silver Hill Rd., Washington, DC, 20233, USA
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Keywords:
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establishment survey ;
contact strategies ;
pre-survey notice ;
experiment
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Abstract:
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The new Business R&D and Innovation Survey, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Census Bureau, is conducted annually with a sample of about 40,000 US private sector companies. To maximize the success of the survey we conducted an experiment with historically problematic respondents and non-responders. In the control treatment, we sent a pre-survey letter to the respondent of record requesting updated contact information for the appropriate recipient of the survey. In the experimental treatment we sent the request to a company executive. We present the results of this experiment, assessing the effect of the experimental strategy on response rates and other outcomes of interest.
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