Michael Link
Biographic Data
| ID | 4402541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Link |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Link |
| SIGNATURE | LINK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 422 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Presidential Address
Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them. Volleyed and thundered: Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. –The Charge of the Light Brigade, Lord Alfred Tennyson Ten years ago at the 2005 AAPOR Conference at the Fontainebleau Hotel, not too far from here, I opened my remarks as a discussant with this passage. The panel wa…
Facebook User Research Using a Probability-Based Sample and Behavioral Data
Research on Facebook users is often based on small convenience samples and on usage data collected through survey self-reports. The current research contributes to Facebook user research, as it is based on a large, nationally representative, probability-based, U.S. sample with Internet usage data collected from meters. Results revealed that 50% of sample members are recent Facebook users. However, within this group, there is wide variation in amo…
Mobile Technologies for Conducting, Augmenting and Potentially Replacing Surveys
Journal Article Mobile Technologies for Conducting, Augmenting and Potentially Replacing Surveys: Executive Summary of the AAPOR Task Force on Emerging Technologies in Public Opinion Research Get access Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link * Address correspondence to: Michael W. Link, Nielsen, 710 Springer Mountain Rd, Canton, GA 30114; e-mail: [email protected] . Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joe Mur…
Social Media in Public Opinion Research
Public opinion research is entering a new era, one in which traditional survey research may play a less dominant role. The proliferation of new technologies, such as mobile devices and social-media platforms, is changing the societal landscape across which public opinion researchers operate. As these technologies expand, so does access to users thoughts, feelings, and actions expressed instantaneously, organically, and often publicly across the p…
Comparison of Smartphone and Online Computer Survey Administration
The dramatic rise of smartphones has profound implications for survey research. Namely, can smartphones become a viable and comparable device for self-administered surveys? The current study is based on approximately 1,500 online U.S. panelists who were smartphone users and who were randomly assigned to the mobile app or online computer mode of a survey. Within the survey, we embedded several experiments that had been previously tested in other m…
Leveraging Auxiliary Data, Differential Incentives, and Survey Mode to Target Hard-to-Reach Groups in an Address-Based Sample Design
Journal Article Leveraging Auxiliary Data, Differential Incentives, and Survey Mode to Target Hard-to-Reach Groups in an Address-Based Sample Design Get access Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link * Michael W. Link is chief methodologist and senior vice president for the Measurement Science Institute at Nielsen, Marietta, GA, USA. Anh Thu Burks is a research director at Nielsen, Tampa, FL, USA. The findings and conclusions in this article are those o…
Cell-Phone-Only Households and Problems of Differential Nonresponse Using an Address-Based Sampling Design
Identifying and contacting cell-phone-only (CPO) households in an efficient and cost-effective manner is critical for many studies to ensure the representativeness of final survey estimates. With the advent of address-based sampling (ABS)—that is, the sampling of addresses from a database with near universal coverage of residential households—researchers have an alternative to cell-phone frame sampling for identifying and surveying these househol…
Research Synthesis
Kulp Dale, 1949-2009
Reaching Linguistically Isolated People
We can no longer ignore nonresponse rates in telephone surveys because of a language barrier (i.e., people who could not speak either English or Spanish) and the corresponding potential for bias in estimates from surveys that involve only English- or Spanish-speaking respondents. Building on a few published studies focusing on this problem, a pilot study was conducted in California as part of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)…
Measuring the Quality of Real-Time Telephone Survey Interpreters
Real-time interpretation during a survey can expand the number of languages in which surveys are offered. There are questions, however, about the quality of the interpretation process given that the interview is typically not pretranslated. A detailed assessment of the quality of this approach is provided using behavior-coding of interviews conducted with respondents who otherwise would have been finalized as “language barrier nonrespondents.” In…
A Comparison of Address-Based Sampling (ABS) Versus Random-Digit Dialing (RDD) for General Population Surveys
Valid and reliable public health data are becoming more difficult to obtain through random-digit dial (RDD) telephone surveys. As a result, researchers are evaluating different survey designs (i.e., sampling frame and survey mode combinations) as complements or alternatives to RDD. Traditionally, mail surveys of the general public have been limited due to a lack of a complete sampling frame of households. Recent advances in electronic record keep…
An Evaluation of Respondent Selection Methods for Household Mail Surveys
Journal Article An Evaluation of Respondent Selection Methods for Household Mail Surveys Get access Michael P. Battaglia, Michael P. Battaglia Address correspondence to Michael P. Battaglia; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Martin R. Frankel, Martin R. Frankel Search…
Telephone Number Portability and the Prevalence of Cell Phone Numbers in Random Digit-Dialed Telephone Survey Samples
Telephone number portability is a feature of circuit switch telecommunication networks that allows people to ‘port’ (i.e., permanently move or transfer) a telephone number from a landline to a wireless service, between two wireless services or, less frequently, from a wireless to a landline service. It was introduced in the United States as a means of improving competition among telecommunications companies and offering customers greater flexibil…
Reaching the U.S. Cell Phone Generation
Noncoverage rates in U.S. landline-based telephone samples due to cell phone only households (i.e., households with no landline but accessible by cell phone) and the corresponding potential for bias in estimates from surveys that sample only from landline frames are growing issues. Building on some of the few published studies that focus on this problem, a study was conducted in three states (Georgia, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania) as part of the …
Has the National Do Not Call Registry Helped or Hurt State-Level Response Rates
By the end of the initial registration period on August 31, 2003, the National Do Not Call Registry (DNC Registry) had registered more than 50 million telephone numbers. Approximately 18 months later that number had increased to more than 91 million. The impact of the DNC Registry on survey response rates, however, is largely unknown. Some researchers speculate that the registry could make it easier to distinguish between telephone survey intervi…
Predicting the Persistence and Performance of Newly Recruited Telephone Interviewers
The impact of personal characteristics and work environment on telephone interviewer job persistence, efficiency, and effectiveness is examined. Data included interviewer demographics, experience, skills, and attitudes, as well as time-clock and production statistics from 383 newly recruited telephone interviewers working on two large-scale national surveys. Findings indicate that interviewer success results from a complex mix of individual and w…
Advance Letters as a Means of Improving Respondent Cooperation in Random Digit Dial Studies
Journal Article Advance Letters as a Means of Improving Respondent Cooperation in Random Digit Dial Studies: A Multistate Experiment Get access Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link michael w. link and ali mokdad are both affiliated with the Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Address correspondence to Michael W. Link; e-mail: MLink@cdc…
Leaving Answering Machine Messages
Journal Article Leaving Answering Machine Messages: Do they Increase Response Rates for RDD Surveys? Get access Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link Michael W. Link, Ph.D. is a Senior Survey Methodologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA, USA. Address correspondence to: Michael W. Link, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, Mailstop K–66, Atlanta, GA, USA 30341–3717; email: [email protected] …
The role of survey research in the benchmarking process
As more state and local governments and agencies embrace strategic planning as a means of cost control, accountability, and goal achievement, the process of benchmarking has become increasingly important. This article examines the role survey research can play in the benchmarking process. The authors focus on some of the considerations and controversies involved in this process, including questionnaire design (What types of questions should be in…
Call Screening
Journal Article Call Screening: Is It Really a Problem for Survey Research? Get access MICHAEL W. LINK, MICHAEL W. LINK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT W. OLDENDICK ROBERT W. OLDENDICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 4, February 1999, Pages 577–589, https://doi.org/10.1086/297872 Published: 01 February 1999
A New Perspective on the Foreign Policy Views of American Opinion Leaders in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Eras
This article breaks new ground in the study of the foreign policy views of American opinion leaders by using a systematic content analysis of writings published in leading foreign policy journals. It is in such jour nals that the debate on the nature and direction of American foreign policy is often played out. Such an approach allows us to examine the level of diversity in the foreign policy thought of opinion leaders and to provide an initial a…
A New Perspective on the Foreign Policy Views of American Opinion Leaders in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Eras
Social Construction and White Attitudes toward Equal Opportunity and Multiculturalism
As the United States moves from being a predominantly biracial to a multiracial society, racial attitudes continue to become more diverse and more complex. Scholars need to address these changes not only in terms of black and white Americans, but also how these changes involve and affect other racial groups, particularly Asian and Hispanic Americans. This inquiry looks at some of these complexities by examining how social construction differentia…
Tracking Public Mood in the Supreme Court
Research Synthesis
A Comparison of Address-Based Sampling (ABS) Versus Random-Digit Dialing (RDD) for General Population Surveys
Valid and reliable public health data are becoming more difficult to obtain through random-digit dial (RDD) telephone surveys. As a result, researchers are evaluating different survey designs (i.e., sampling frame and survey mode combinations) as complements or alternatives to RDD. Traditionally, mail surveys of the general public have been limited due to a lack of a complete sampling frame of households. Recent advances in electronic record keep…
Reaching the U.S. Cell Phone Generation
Noncoverage rates in U.S. landline-based telephone samples due to cell phone only households (i.e., households with no landline but accessible by cell phone) and the corresponding potential for bias in estimates from surveys that sample only from landline frames are growing issues. Building on some of the few published studies that focus on this problem, a study was conducted in three states (Georgia, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania) as part of the …
Mobile Technologies for Conducting, Augmenting and Potentially Replacing Surveys
Journal Article Mobile Technologies for Conducting, Augmenting and Potentially Replacing Surveys: Executive Summary of the AAPOR Task Force on Emerging Technologies in Public Opinion Research Get access Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link * Address correspondence to: Michael W. Link, Nielsen, 710 Springer Mountain Rd, Canton, GA 30114; e-mail: [email protected] . Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joe Mur…
Social Construction and White Attitudes toward Equal Opportunity and Multiculturalism
As the United States moves from being a predominantly biracial to a multiracial society, racial attitudes continue to become more diverse and more complex. Scholars need to address these changes not only in terms of black and white Americans, but also how these changes involve and affect other racial groups, particularly Asian and Hispanic Americans. This inquiry looks at some of these complexities by examining how social construction differentia…
Social Media in Public Opinion Research
Public opinion research is entering a new era, one in which traditional survey research may play a less dominant role. The proliferation of new technologies, such as mobile devices and social-media platforms, is changing the societal landscape across which public opinion researchers operate. As these technologies expand, so does access to users thoughts, feelings, and actions expressed instantaneously, organically, and often publicly across the p…
An Evaluation of Respondent Selection Methods for Household Mail Surveys
Journal Article An Evaluation of Respondent Selection Methods for Household Mail Surveys Get access Michael P. Battaglia, Michael P. Battaglia Address correspondence to Michael P. Battaglia; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Martin R. Frankel, Martin R. Frankel Search…
Comparison of Smartphone and Online Computer Survey Administration
The dramatic rise of smartphones has profound implications for survey research. Namely, can smartphones become a viable and comparable device for self-administered surveys? The current study is based on approximately 1,500 online U.S. panelists who were smartphone users and who were randomly assigned to the mobile app or online computer mode of a survey. Within the survey, we embedded several experiments that had been previously tested in other m…
Tracking Public Mood in the Supreme Court
Representational models of judicial decision making posit that the Supreme Court is a permeable institution, subject to external pressures-namely elite and mass opinion. Court rulings, therefore, should be demonstrably congruent with the views of the majoritarian electoral/political alliance. Building upon an innovative study by Mishler and Sheehan (1993), the relationship between public and elite attitudes and Supreme Court rulings are examined …
The Answering Machine Generation
Journal Article THE ANSWERING MACHINE GENERATION: WHO ARE THEY AND WHAT PROBLEM DO THEY POSE FOR SURVEY RESEARCH? Get access ROBERT W. OLDENDICK, ROBERT W. OLDENDICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL W. LINK MICHAEL W. LINK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 58, Issue 2, SUMMER 1994, Pages 264–273, https://doi.org/10.1086/269422 P…
Call Screening
Journal Article Call Screening: Is It Really a Problem for Survey Research? Get access MICHAEL W. LINK, MICHAEL W. LINK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT W. OLDENDICK ROBERT W. OLDENDICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 4, February 1999, Pages 577–589, https://doi.org/10.1086/297872 Published: 01 February 1999
Cell-Phone-Only Households and Problems of Differential Nonresponse Using an Address-Based Sampling Design
Identifying and contacting cell-phone-only (CPO) households in an efficient and cost-effective manner is critical for many studies to ensure the representativeness of final survey estimates. With the advent of address-based sampling (ABS)—that is, the sampling of addresses from a database with near universal coverage of residential households—researchers have an alternative to cell-phone frame sampling for identifying and surveying these househol…
Advance Letters as a Means of Improving Respondent Cooperation in Random Digit Dial Studies
Journal Article Advance Letters as a Means of Improving Respondent Cooperation in Random Digit Dial Studies: A Multistate Experiment Get access Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link michael w. link and ali mokdad are both affiliated with the Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Address correspondence to Michael W. Link; e-mail: MLink@cdc…
Leveraging Auxiliary Data, Differential Incentives, and Survey Mode to Target Hard-to-Reach Groups in an Address-Based Sample Design
Journal Article Leveraging Auxiliary Data, Differential Incentives, and Survey Mode to Target Hard-to-Reach Groups in an Address-Based Sample Design Get access Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link * Michael W. Link is chief methodologist and senior vice president for the Measurement Science Institute at Nielsen, Marietta, GA, USA. Anh Thu Burks is a research director at Nielsen, Tampa, FL, USA. The findings and conclusions in this article are those o…
Exploring the Psychopolitical Dynamics of Advisory Relations
A president's personality is an important variable which affects the selection of individuals from whom he seeks counsel and influences both the advice he is given as well as the extent to which this advice is followed. Using personality theory as a tool and the Carter presidency as a case study, this research delineates five advisory relation types: reality testing, bolstering, reality testingbolstering (mixed), compensatory, and proxy. The data…
Presidential Address
Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them. Volleyed and thundered: Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. –The Charge of the Light Brigade, Lord Alfred Tennyson Ten years ago at the 2005 AAPOR Conference at the Fontainebleau Hotel, not too far from here, I opened my remarks as a discussant with this passage. The panel wa…
Facebook User Research Using a Probability-Based Sample and Behavioral Data
Research on Facebook users is often based on small convenience samples and on usage data collected through survey self-reports. The current research contributes to Facebook user research, as it is based on a large, nationally representative, probability-based, U.S. sample with Internet usage data collected from meters. Results revealed that 50% of sample members are recent Facebook users. However, within this group, there is wide variation in amo…
Predicting the Persistence and Performance of Newly Recruited Telephone Interviewers
The impact of personal characteristics and work environment on telephone interviewer job persistence, efficiency, and effectiveness is examined. Data included interviewer demographics, experience, skills, and attitudes, as well as time-clock and production statistics from 383 newly recruited telephone interviewers working on two large-scale national surveys. Findings indicate that interviewer success results from a complex mix of individual and w…
A New Perspective on the Foreign Policy Views of American Opinion Leaders in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Eras
This article breaks new ground in the study of the foreign policy views of American opinion leaders by using a systematic content analysis of writings published in leading foreign policy journals. It is in such jour nals that the debate on the nature and direction of American foreign policy is often played out. Such an approach allows us to examine the level of diversity in the foreign policy thought of opinion leaders and to provide an initial a…
Has the National Do Not Call Registry Helped or Hurt State-Level Response Rates
By the end of the initial registration period on August 31, 2003, the National Do Not Call Registry (DNC Registry) had registered more than 50 million telephone numbers. Approximately 18 months later that number had increased to more than 91 million. The impact of the DNC Registry on survey response rates, however, is largely unknown. Some researchers speculate that the registry could make it easier to distinguish between telephone survey intervi…
Is access influence? Measuring adviser‐presidential interactions in light of the Iranian hostage crisis
Access is not a well‐defined, empirical concept in scholarly treatments of relations between presidents and their closest advisers. This is unfortunate, because the advisory process is central to the exercise of influence over decision making. Presidential access provides a means of controlling the flow of information to the chief executive, thereby enhancing an adviser's ability to define problems, identify options, and persuade the president to…
The Social Philosophy of Reinhold Niebuhr
Journal Article The Social Philosophy of Reinhold Niebuhr: An Historical Introduction. By Michael Link. (Chicago: Adams, 1975. iii + 143 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Paper.) Get access Jacob H. Dorn Jacob H. Dorn Wright State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 192, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888356 Published: 01 June 1977
Dialogue
The Social Philosophy of Reinhold Niebuhr
Journal Article The Social Philosophy of Reinhold Niebuhr: An Historical Introduction. By Michael Link. (Chicago: Adams, 1975. iii + 143 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Paper.) Get access Jacob H. Dorn Jacob H. Dorn Wright State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Page 192, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888356 Published: 01 June 1977
Antropología política e indigenismo
AbbVie
Is access influence? Measuring adviser‐presidential interactions in light of the Iranian hostage crisis
Access is not a well‐defined, empirical concept in scholarly treatments of relations between presidents and their closest advisers. This is unfortunate, because the advisory process is central to the exercise of influence over decision making. Presidential access provides a means of controlling the flow of information to the chief executive, thereby enhancing an adviser's ability to define problems, identify options, and persuade the president to…
The Answering Machine Generation
Journal Article THE ANSWERING MACHINE GENERATION: WHO ARE THEY AND WHAT PROBLEM DO THEY POSE FOR SURVEY RESEARCH? Get access ROBERT W. OLDENDICK, ROBERT W. OLDENDICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL W. LINK MICHAEL W. LINK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 58, Issue 2, SUMMER 1994, Pages 264–273, https://doi.org/10.1086/269422 P…
Exploring the Psychopolitical Dynamics of Advisory Relations
A president's personality is an important variable which affects the selection of individuals from whom he seeks counsel and influences both the advice he is given as well as the extent to which this advice is followed. Using personality theory as a tool and the Carter presidency as a case study, this research delineates five advisory relation types: reality testing, bolstering, reality testingbolstering (mixed), compensatory, and proxy. The data…
Tracking Public Mood in the Supreme Court
Tracking Public Mood in the Supreme Court
Representational models of judicial decision making posit that the Supreme Court is a permeable institution, subject to external pressures-namely elite and mass opinion. Court rulings, therefore, should be demonstrably congruent with the views of the majoritarian electoral/political alliance. Building upon an innovative study by Mishler and Sheehan (1993), the relationship between public and elite attitudes and Supreme Court rulings are examined …
Social Construction and White Attitudes toward Equal Opportunity and Multiculturalism
As the United States moves from being a predominantly biracial to a multiracial society, racial attitudes continue to become more diverse and more complex. Scholars need to address these changes not only in terms of black and white Americans, but also how these changes involve and affect other racial groups, particularly Asian and Hispanic Americans. This inquiry looks at some of these complexities by examining how social construction differentia…
A New Perspective on the Foreign Policy Views of American Opinion Leaders in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Eras
This article breaks new ground in the study of the foreign policy views of American opinion leaders by using a systematic content analysis of writings published in leading foreign policy journals. It is in such jour nals that the debate on the nature and direction of American foreign policy is often played out. Such an approach allows us to examine the level of diversity in the foreign policy thought of opinion leaders and to provide an initial a…
A New Perspective on the Foreign Policy Views of American Opinion Leaders in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Eras
Call Screening
Journal Article Call Screening: Is It Really a Problem for Survey Research? Get access MICHAEL W. LINK, MICHAEL W. LINK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT W. OLDENDICK ROBERT W. OLDENDICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 4, February 1999, Pages 577–589, https://doi.org/10.1086/297872 Published: 01 February 1999
The role of survey research in the benchmarking process
As more state and local governments and agencies embrace strategic planning as a means of cost control, accountability, and goal achievement, the process of benchmarking has become increasingly important. This article examines the role survey research can play in the benchmarking process. The authors focus on some of the considerations and controversies involved in this process, including questionnaire design (What types of questions should be in…
Leaving Answering Machine Messages
Journal Article Leaving Answering Machine Messages: Do they Increase Response Rates for RDD Surveys? Get access Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link Michael W. Link, Ph.D. is a Senior Survey Methodologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA, USA. Address correspondence to: Michael W. Link, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, Mailstop K–66, Atlanta, GA, USA 30341–3717; email: [email protected] …
Advance Letters as a Means of Improving Respondent Cooperation in Random Digit Dial Studies
Journal Article Advance Letters as a Means of Improving Respondent Cooperation in Random Digit Dial Studies: A Multistate Experiment Get access Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link michael w. link and ali mokdad are both affiliated with the Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Address correspondence to Michael W. Link; e-mail: MLink@cdc…
Has the National Do Not Call Registry Helped or Hurt State-Level Response Rates
By the end of the initial registration period on August 31, 2003, the National Do Not Call Registry (DNC Registry) had registered more than 50 million telephone numbers. Approximately 18 months later that number had increased to more than 91 million. The impact of the DNC Registry on survey response rates, however, is largely unknown. Some researchers speculate that the registry could make it easier to distinguish between telephone survey intervi…
Predicting the Persistence and Performance of Newly Recruited Telephone Interviewers
The impact of personal characteristics and work environment on telephone interviewer job persistence, efficiency, and effectiveness is examined. Data included interviewer demographics, experience, skills, and attitudes, as well as time-clock and production statistics from 383 newly recruited telephone interviewers working on two large-scale national surveys. Findings indicate that interviewer success results from a complex mix of individual and w…
Telephone Number Portability and the Prevalence of Cell Phone Numbers in Random Digit-Dialed Telephone Survey Samples
Telephone number portability is a feature of circuit switch telecommunication networks that allows people to ‘port’ (i.e., permanently move or transfer) a telephone number from a landline to a wireless service, between two wireless services or, less frequently, from a wireless to a landline service. It was introduced in the United States as a means of improving competition among telecommunications companies and offering customers greater flexibil…
Reaching the U.S. Cell Phone Generation
Noncoverage rates in U.S. landline-based telephone samples due to cell phone only households (i.e., households with no landline but accessible by cell phone) and the corresponding potential for bias in estimates from surveys that sample only from landline frames are growing issues. Building on some of the few published studies that focus on this problem, a study was conducted in three states (Georgia, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania) as part of the …
A Comparison of Address-Based Sampling (ABS) Versus Random-Digit Dialing (RDD) for General Population Surveys
Valid and reliable public health data are becoming more difficult to obtain through random-digit dial (RDD) telephone surveys. As a result, researchers are evaluating different survey designs (i.e., sampling frame and survey mode combinations) as complements or alternatives to RDD. Traditionally, mail surveys of the general public have been limited due to a lack of a complete sampling frame of households. Recent advances in electronic record keep…
An Evaluation of Respondent Selection Methods for Household Mail Surveys
Journal Article An Evaluation of Respondent Selection Methods for Household Mail Surveys Get access Michael P. Battaglia, Michael P. Battaglia Address correspondence to Michael P. Battaglia; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael W. Link, Michael W. Link Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Martin R. Frankel, Martin R. Frankel Search…
Measuring the Quality of Real-Time Telephone Survey Interpreters
Real-time interpretation during a survey can expand the number of languages in which surveys are offered. There are questions, however, about the quality of the interpretation process given that the interview is typically not pretranslated. A detailed assessment of the quality of this approach is provided using behavior-coding of interviews conducted with respondents who otherwise would have been finalized as “language barrier nonrespondents.” In…
Research Synthesis
Kulp Dale, 1949-2009
Reaching Linguistically Isolated People
We can no longer ignore nonresponse rates in telephone surveys because of a language barrier (i.e., people who could not speak either English or Spanish) and the corresponding potential for bias in estimates from surveys that involve only English- or Spanish-speaking respondents. Building on a few published studies focusing on this problem, a pilot study was conducted in California as part of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)…
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