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Activity Number: 149
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2008 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #301908
Title: Response Quality Among Reluctant Respondents
Author(s): Olena Kaminska*+
Companies: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Address: 200 N. 11th Str., , Lincoln, NE, 68508,
Keywords: reluctant respondents ; converted refusals ; response quality ; measurement error ; European Social Survey
Abstract:

While increasing response rate by converting refusals aims to minimize nonresponse error, it can possibly lead to higher measurement error if reluctant respondents are less motivated to attend carefully to respondent tasks. Using data from the second round of European Social Survey conducted in 2004/2005 in Netherlands, we investigate whether reluctant respondents tend to provide lower data quality. Willing and reluctant respondents are compared on measures of acquiescence, straight responses, don't know responses, middle and extreme responses, random selection of response alternatives (coin-flipping), as well as interviewer evaluation of respondent effort. The implications of the study for the future waves of the European Social Survey are discussed.

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