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Activity Number:
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652
- Improving Efficiency and Maintaining High Data Quality: Outcomes for the 2017 Survey of Consumer Finances
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 3, 2017 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Survey Research Methods Section
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Abstract #323565
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View Presentation
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Title:
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Elusive Respondents: Characteristics and Interventions
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Author(s):
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Catherine C Haggerty* and Kate Bachtell and Becky Curtis and Karen Veldman and Shannon Nelson and Ella Kemp
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Companies:
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NORC University of Chicago and NORC University of Chicago and NORC University of Chicago and NORC University of Chicago and NORC University of Chicago and NORC University of Chicago
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Keywords:
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elusive respondents ;
paradata
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Abstract:
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Every three years the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) is conducted to collect personal income and family finance data from a national area probability and list sample with a lengthy and complex survey instrument. The survey faces challenges in gaining cooperation from households due to the sensitive nature of the study. Since 2004 the field period had to be extended to reach both the targeted response rate and targeted number of completed cases. For the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances (2016 SCF), and most surveys seeking high response rates, the pursuit of elusive respondents is necessary and both a lengthy and labor intensive process. Last year we presented findings from our examination of the 2013 SCF data to inform and target special efforts designed to shorten start to finish time and reduce total labor associated with these most challenging respondents. We will describe our experiences on the 2016 SCF: the challenging places in which there is a higher percentage of hard-to-contact cases, our analysis of the characteristics of these places and households,and determine whether we were able to reduce the level of effort and improve the outcomes of these more difficult cases.
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