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Abstract #304153

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Activity Number: 182
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 8, 2005 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #304153
Title: Reports from NCES on the Use of Incentives in Data Collection and the Timeliness of Data Collection and Reporting
Author(s): Pia Peltola*+
Companies: Education Statistics Services Institute
Address: POBox 105, Shepherdstown, WV, 25443, United States
Keywords: incentives ; response rate ; data collection
Abstract:

This paper reports on NCES' efforts to track two operational issues related to data quality: the use of incentives in data collection and the time surveyors spend in the field and preparing data for release to the public. We provide an overview of various purposes and types of incentives that have been incorporated into the design of recent waves of different NCES surveys. We use two experiments as examples to contextualize the use of incentives. The first one, which was part of the 2003 NHES, highlights the use of monetary incentives and mailing procedures in a telephone survey. The second, which was part of the 1992 NALS, demonstrates the ability of monetary incentives to increase response rate among groups often difficult to elicit responses from and to lower overall survey costs. The timeliness of data collection is an important data monitoring issue for NCES. Based on production dates collected for NCES surveys, we describe the average length of data collection and the average delay in the start and end of data collection. We also discuss the length of time it typically takes until the data is published and until a publication using the data is released.

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