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Activity Number:
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39
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, August 2, 2009 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #303919 |
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Title:
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Getting to the Top: Reaching Wealthy Respondents in the SCF
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Author(s):
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Arthur B. Kennickell*+
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Companies:
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Federal Reserve Board
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Address:
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Mail Stop 153, Washington, DC, 20551,
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Keywords:
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Survey field operations ; Nonresponse bias ; Paradata ; Administrative records
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Abstract:
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This paper examines efforts to interview a very wealthy part of the sample for the 2007 SCF. Only about a quarter of the group was interviewed. But at the close of the field period, more than a third of this sample was judged to be still workable. Progress of the field work was driven both by the behavior of respondents and the behavior of the field staff. The paper uses the formal data coded in the call records for each case to describe the work. But that information is inconclusive about the factors that drove the work. Informal notes in the call records do provide a clear picture of the points of resistance among respondents. Although it was difficult to locate, contact, and convince respondents of the legitimacy and value of the survey, it appears that the ultimate constraint in a large proportion of cases was time. Auxilliary data show little evidence of nonresponse bias.
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