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Activity Number: 593
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #308585
Title: Respondent Incentives: Do They Bring Different Respondents to the Data Table?
Author(s): Alicia M. Frasier*+ and Heather M. Morrison and Kathleen B. Santos
Companies: NORC and NORC and NORC
Address: 55 E Monroe, Chicago, IL, 60603, USA
Keywords: Survey Research ; Incentives ; Bias
Abstract:

Declining response rates for Random Digit Dial (RDD) household surveys have prompted an increase in the use of monetary incentives as a tool for converting reluctant respondents. But the question remains - is this money well-spent? Previous research demonstrates that respondents included as the result of a refusal-based incentive effort can differ from initially compliant respondents along such measures as education level, gender, race, income, geography, and household composition. We expand on this research, examining data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health - an RDD survey conducted through the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey mechanism of the National Center for Health Statistics on behalf of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. We focus on whether and how incentive cases differ from non-incentive cases - all while considering any impact on survey bias.


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