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Activity Number: 294 - SPEED: Statistics in Social Sciences and Survey Research Part 2
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 : 10:30 AM to 11:15 AM
Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
Abstract #323805
Title: Results of a Push-to-Web Protocol in a Survey of Commercial Buildings
Author(s): Katie Lewis* and Sarah Grady and Lawrence Chrishelle
Companies: Energy Information Administration and Energy Information Administration and Energy Information Administration
Keywords: push-to-web; multi-mode; paradata; web survey; CAPI survey
Abstract:

Push-to-web survey protocols, which encourage respondents that are contacted with non-web modes to respond to a survey using a web survey instrument, are common in surveys with multiple modes. These protocols can save costs, improve data quality, and potentially reduce non-response bias. The Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) implemented a multi-mode design for the first time in the 2018 cycle with a combination of web and computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) for data collection. As an adaptive design strategy, a subset of the 2018 sampled buildings was selected for a push-to-web protocol. The protocol included a series of eight standardized contacts that used email, text, mail, and an interviewer visit in the final contact. In this presentation we analyze data about the push-to-web buildings, looking at response rates and contact level paradata to identify if the protocol was successful, and if the protocol reduced the number of in-person contacts. We use the results to make recommendations for the next CBECS.


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