Can we augment web responses with telephonic responses to a graduate destination survey?

Toit, Jacques du

doi:10.1080/02602938.2015.1033613

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“…As discussed above, the CHEC study provides important pointers for subsequent graduate destinations surveys. For example, the use of follow-up telephone interviews can help address selection bias, as they can reach those who do not use email regularly (du Toit et al 2014;du Toit 2016). However, the conditions for conducting these surveys in Kenya and many other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are more challenging than in the Western Cape (South Africa), on account of incomplete student records and lack of administrative capacity, along with a range of other issues.…”

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Towards a National Graduate Destinations Survey in Kenya: An Exploratory Study of Three Universities

2017

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While concerns about graduate unemployment and the work-readiness of graduates in Sub-Saharan Africa abound, there is a severe lack of institutional data and academic research on graduate destinations on which to base policy changes. This article presents findings from an exploratory study of three major higher education institutions in Kenya. An online survey was conducted of undergraduate students graduating between 6 and 12 months prior to the study, aiming to determine, first, what employment activities they were engaged in, and second, what associations there might be between those activities, the graduates' background characteristics, and their experiences at university. Findings suggest that proportions of absolute unemployment are lower than expected, but that many graduates are transiting between provisional or part-time employment and internships, and have not yet obtained the graduate level jobs aspired to. Finally, implications are drawn out for potential national-level graduate destination surveys in Kenya and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Towards a National Graduate Destinations Survey in Kenya: An Exploratory Study of Three Universities

2017

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“…First, the target population was widely dispersed and highly mobile (no fixed address). Second, given the relatively sensitive nature of the topic (i.e., interethnic relations), an interviewer-mediated survey could lead to severe social desirability biases (du Toit 2016). Third, the cost effectiveness of WSAQ surveys allowed for a larger sample size within the available budget.…”

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“…However, online surveys—especially in developing countries—have their own methodological challenges, such as sampling, coverage, and response issues. Below, we discuss how we tackled these challenges in our survey (for a slightly different approach to similar challenges, see du Toit 2016; du Toit et al 2014).…”

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Can Student Populations in Developing Countries Be Reached by Online Surveys? The Case of the National Service Scheme Survey (N3S) in Ghana

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This article tackles the question whether it is a viable strategy to conduct online surveys among university students in developing countries. By documenting the methodology of the National Service Scheme Survey conducted in Ghana, we set out to answer three questions: (1) How can a sample of university students be obtained? (2) How can students be motivated to cooperate in online surveys? (3) What kind of devices do students use for completing an online survey? Our results indicate that online strategies can be very useful to reach this particular target group, if the necessary precautions are taken.

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“…In recent years, the sequential mixed-mode strategy has become standard practice in the survey management of longitudinal studies (Sakshaug et al 2019 : 546; de Leeuw 2018 , 2010 2005 ; Mauz et al 2018 ; Klausch et al 2017 ; Couper 2017 , 2008 ; Bianchi et al 2016 ; Buelens and Brakel 2015 ; Lynn 2013 : 184; Schouten et al 2013 ; Millar and Dillman 2011 ; Börkan 2010 ; Dillman and Christian 2005 ; Biemer and Lyberg 2003 ). In the case of multiple panels in particular, time pressure, extreme high data collection costs in surveys, declining response rates, minimisation of nonresponse bias, and coverage issues, as well as a direct trade-off of mode-specific errors in the total survey error relative to a single mode, are the main reasons for applying this strategy in contrast to concurrent mixed-mode designs (Bucks et al 2020 : 353; Sakshaug et al 2019 ; Couper 2017 ; Dillman 2017 ; Klausch et al 2017 ; du Toit 2016 ; Buelens and Brakel 2015 ). Reducing sample selection bias is an additional primary motivation for applying sequential mixed-mode methods (Klausch et al 2017 ).…”

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“…According to de Leeuw ( 2010 : 1), “mixed-mode surveys try to combine the best of all possible worlds by exploiting the advantages of different modes to compensate for their weakness” (see also: Lynn 2013 : 185; Jäckle et al 2010 ). The researcher’s decision to mix modes therefore entails an explicit trade-off between errors and the costs of using data collection modes (de Leeuw 2005 : 235; du Toit 2016 ).…”

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The effects of a special sequential mixed-mode design, and reminders, on panellists’ participation in a probability-based panel study

Becker

2021

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The sequential mixed-mode strategy has become standard practice in the survey management of longitudinal studies, in order to achieve consistently high response rates. To realise this aim in a cost-efficient way, a first mode is often an online questionnaire, towards which the target persons are pushed, and a second mode is then a telephone interview, offered to those who do not respond to the initial mode. However, the rationale for using the sequential mixed-mode plus “push-to-web” strategy to reduce the burden of choosing between survey modes, in order to maximise survey participation, could be undermined if there is an overlapping field period during which the target persons could choose between two or more offered modes. The use of reminders might be useful in solving this problem of competing risks. In the context of a multiple-panel study, this question was investigated by utilising longitudinal paradata from the fieldwork, as well as procedures of event history analysis that are adequate for the analysis of processes with competing risks. First, for a web survey as the initial mode and computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) as the subsequent mode, it was found that the idea of a sequential mixed-mode plus “push-to-web” strategy does work even in the case of competing risks in the choice of a survey mode. Second, it was confirmed that reminders are a useful instrument for stimulating panellists to choose the running survey mode. Third, and finally, it was found that this feature of survey management is effective in countering panellists’ procrastination in regard to responding to a survey.

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Can we augment web responses with telephonic responses to a graduate destination survey?

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Towards a National Graduate Destinations Survey in Kenya: An Exploratory Study of Three Universities

Towards a National Graduate Destinations Survey in Kenya: An Exploratory Study of Three Universities

Can Student Populations in Developing Countries Be Reached by Online Surveys? The Case of the National Service Scheme Survey (N3S) in Ghana

The effects of a special sequential mixed-mode design, and reminders, on panellists’ participation in a probability-based panel study

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