An Exploratory Analysis of Family Social Science Mail Survey Response Rates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13656200 |
|---|---|
| Authors | CHARLES A CALAHAN (Kansas State University, corresponding author), W R Schumm (0000-0003-3097-3551, Kansas State University) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3_suppl |
| Pages | 1379-1388 |
| Publication date | 1995-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1995.76.3c.1379 |
| OpenAlex | W2075938593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
Dillman (1978) has aggressively promoted his Total Design Method as a proven technique for generating higher response rates to social science surveys. Many university faculty teach his technique on the assumption that its use will generate high response rates for the individual student who uses it faithfully in thesis or dissertation research. In an exploratory assessment of six of Dillman's mail survey steps—quality of covering letter, use of follow-ups, importance of the study, survey's appearance or readability, survey's length, and type of sample (general public or specialized population)—with 15 family social science surveys, we found that, despite the small sample size, type of sample, and follow-up predicted mail survey response rates, as did a summary measure of the use of all six steps. The results suggest that the Total Design Method's mail survey steps are useful even for low-cost research by graduate students
Exploratory research · General Social Survey · Medical education · Population · Readability · Sample (material · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Survey methodology · Survey research · Survey sampling · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Demography · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2000 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |