An analysis of the effect of pre-incentives and post-incentives based on draws on response to web surveys

Sánchez‐Fernández, Juan; Muñoz‐Leiva, Francisco; Montoro-Ríos, Francisco; Ibáñez-Zapata, José Ángel

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“…Overall, psychological distress is measured using the K-6 instrument (Kessler et al, 2003), which is scored on a scale of 0-24. We also use the two K-6 items specific to anxiety (feeling 'nervous' and 'restless or fidgety') as a 6 We chose the $10 cash 'pre-incentive' (not conditional on participation) on the basis of survey methods research generally indicating that this is as effective as 'post-incentives' (awarded only after participation), at least for relatively small amounts (Sanchez-Fernandez et al, 2010). Also, the 'pre-incentive' has the advantage of not requiring an additional letter or email for delivery of the incentive.…”

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“… We chose the $10 cash ‘pre‐incentive’ (not conditional on participation) on the basis of survey methods research generally indicating that this is as effective as ‘post‐incentives’ (awarded only after participation), at least for relatively small amounts (Sanchez‐Fernandez et al ., ). Also, the ‘pre‐incentive’ has the advantage of not requiring an additional letter or email for delivery of the incentive.…”

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Social Contagion of Mental Health: Evidence From College Roommates

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From a policy standpoint the spread of health conditions in social networks is important to quantify, because it implies externalities and possible market failures in the consumption of health interventions. Recent studies conclude that happiness and depression may be highly contagious across social ties. The results may be biased, however, due to selection and common shocks. We provide unbiased estimates by using exogenous variation from college roommate assignments. Our findings are consistent with no significant overall contagion of mental health and no more than small contagion effects for specific mental health measures, with no evidence for happiness contagion and modest evidence for anxiety and depression contagion. The weakness of the contagion effects cannot be explained by avoidance of roommates with poor mental health or by generally low social contact among roommates. We also find that similarity of baseline mental health predicts the closeness of roommate relationships, which highlights the potential for selection biases in studies of peer effects that do not have a clearly exogenous source of variation. Overall our results suggest that mental health contagion is lower, or at least more context-specific, than implied by the recent studies in the medical literature.

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“…Munoz-Leiva et al (2010) examined how personalization and frequency of reminder mailings can influence response rates for mailing list-based surveys. Sanchez-Fernandez et al (2010) looked at how pre-and post-incentives for surveys affected response rates for mailing list-based surveys. Yet for surveys introduced through face-toface interaction we have been unable to find a study that examines the effects the survey administrator can have on survey response through their interaction with the respondents.…”

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How survey administration can affect response in electronic surveys

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Electronic surveys have become one of the most popular methods of data collection in research. In order to obtain satisfactory results, good response rates are needed. We examine response rates to a survey administered in a face-to-face class-based setting collected using an electronic survey tool. The electronic survey was administered in four separate instances where each instance involved the survey administrator using either an active or passive administrative approach, and either offering or declining to offer extra credit. While no significant difference was found in actual responses to questions between the four groups, a significant difference was found in response rates between respondents who were offered extra credit and those who were not, and between surveys that were administered using active versus passive approaches. Other expected findings include higher responses in individual groups using the active approach and offering extra credit. An unexpected result occurred in the groups where no extra credit was offered: No significant difference was found between the active and passive administrations.

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“…In addition, the economic exchange theory (Ryu et al 2006) is supported because cash (Birnholtz et al 2004;van Veen et al 2011) and larger incentives have been found to be more effective (Schaurer et al 2012). Both effects can also be found in telephone surveys (Singer et al 2000;Curtin et al 2007;Sánchez-Fernández et al 2010). However, in their study Bosnjak and Tuten (2003) find that prepaid incentives do not increase completion rates.…”

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Sample Representation and Substantive Outcomes Using Web With and Without Incentives Compared to Telephone in an Election Survey

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Pekari

2016

Journal of Official Statistics

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The objective of this article is to understand how the change of mode from telephone to web affects data quality in terms of sample representation and substantive variable bias. To this end, an experiment, consisting of a web survey with and without a prepaid incentive, was conducted alongside the telephone Swiss election survey. All three designs used identical questionnaires and probability samples drawn from a national register of individuals.First, our findings show that differences in completion rates mostly reflect different levels of coverage in the two modes. Second, incentives in the web survey strongly increase completion rates of all person groups, with the exception of people without Internet access or limited computer literacy. Third, we find voting behavior to be much closer to official figures in the web with the incentive version compared to the two other designs. However, this is partly due to the different sociodemographic compositions of the samples. Other substantive results suggest that the incentive version includes harder-to-reach respondents. Unit costs are much lower in the two web designs compared to the telephone, including when a relatively high incentive is used. We conclude that in countries with high Internet penetration rates such as Switzerland, web surveys are already likely to be highly competitive.

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An analysis of the effect of pre-incentives and post-incentives based on draws on response to web surveys

Abstract: Web surveys, Incentives, Draws, Response rate, Quality response,

Cited by 33 publications

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Social Contagion of Mental Health: Evidence From College Roommates

Social Contagion of Mental Health: Evidence From College Roommates

How survey administration can affect response in electronic surveys

Sample Representation and Substantive Outcomes Using Web With and Without Incentives Compared to Telephone in an Election Survey

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