Costs and benefits of selected response inducement techniques in mail survey research

Martin, Warren S.; Duncan, W. Jack; Powers, Thomas L.; Sawyer, Jesse C.

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“…Eligible households within the total sample were then selected. Telephone interviewing has been found to be comparable to in-person interviews in its reliability and validity (Bajos, Spira, Ducot, & Messiah, 1992;Bermack, 1989;Czaja, 1987;Martin, Duncan, Powers, & Sawyer, 1989). …”

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Interpersonal Victimization Among a National Sample of Latino Women

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Milloshi

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This article presents results from the Sexual Assault Among Latinas (SALAS) study, which obtained lifetime prevalence rates of interpersonal violence from a national sample of adult Latino women. Results show that more than half of the women in the study (53.6%) reported at least one victimization experience during their lifetime, with approximately two thirds of the victimized women (66.2%) experiencing more than one victimization incident, pointing to significant levels of polyvictimization and revictimization patterns across all victimization types. The results provide estimates of lifetime interpersonal violence and present a broader scope of the victimization experiences for this population. Keywords interpersonal violence, Latinas, victimizationResearch on the interpersonal victimization of Latino women is still, in large part, a burgeoning field. Despite the rapid growth of the Latino population (Pew Research Center, 2005), studies focusing on the interpersonal victimization of Latino women have lagged. Given that this literature is not fully developed, the study of this specific group is an important step in understanding and documenting the rate of victimization among Latino women. Therefore, this study takes up the task of ascertaining the prevalence rates of victimization, both in childhood and adulthood, by a variety of perpetrators, within a national sample of Latino women. The study overcomes previous limitations and Article

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“…Some prior research has found that some of the Dillman (1978) techniques have interactive effects in enhancing response rates, working better when used together (James & Bolstein, 1990;Martin, Duncan, Powers, & Sawyer, 1989), but there is no overarching theory to guide specific tests. Therefore, as suggested by Dillman (1991Dillman ( , 2000, we also performed additional, exploratory tests of the two-way interactions for the response enhancement techniques (salient topic, advance notice, follow-up, and personalization; shown in Model 2).…”

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What (Not) to Expect When Surveying Executives

Cycyota

Harrison

2006

Organizational Research Methods

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The authors developed hypotheses about the effectiveness of response rate techniques for organizational researchers surveying executives. Using meta-analytic procedures to test those hypotheses, the authors analyzed response rate data from 231 studies that surveyed executives and appeared in top management journals from 1992 to 2003. They found mean response rates to be declining over the period, yielding an overall 32% rate. Of the various methods suggested to increase response rates in other populations, none were found to be effective for executives. However, topical salience and sponsorship by an organization or person in the executive's social networks did bring about response rate increases. The authors provide recommendations about what (not) to do when trying to collectoriginal data from members of a firm's upper echelons.

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“…The evidence on prenotification and follow-ups is mixed (Helakorpi et al, 2015). Several studies reported that sending advance notice, or pre-notification, increases RR (Houston and Ford, 1976; Duncan, 1979;Heberlein and Baumgartner, 1978;Martin, et al, 1989; Bruvold et al,1990). The reported increase could vary from around seven percentage points (Fox et al, 1988) to 17.6…”

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“…Chidlow et al, (2015) reported that a utilization of Dillman's procedure can increase RR by 13.7 percentage points. For instance, personalization of cover letters are linked with high RR (Chidlow et al, 2015; Duncan, 1979), raising RR to up to nine percentage points (Martin, Duncan, Powers, and Sawyer, 1989). The evidence on prenotification and follow-ups is mixed (Helakorpi et al, 2015).…”

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Response Rates in Business and Management Research: An Overview of Current Practice and Suggestions for Future Direction

Mellahi

Harris

2015

British J of Management

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(2016) Response rates in business and management research : an overview of current practice and suggestions for future directions. British Journal of Management, 27 (2). pp. 426-437. Permanent WRAP URL:http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/73828 Copyright and reuse:The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes this work by researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions. Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. Publisher's statement:"This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mellahi, Kamel and Harris, Lloyd C.. (2016) Response rates in business and management research : an overview of current practice and suggestions for future directions. British Journal of Management, 27 (2). pp. 426-437., which has been published in final form http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12154 . This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving." A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or, version of record, if you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the 'permanent WRAP URL' above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. RESPONSE RATES IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT PRACTICE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE DIRECTIONS Kamel Mellahi And Lloyd Harris IntroductionSurvey methods are widely used in business and management research. Their advantages are well known; they can reach a large number of the target population at relatively low cost in money, time and effort. Their disadvantages are also well known and well documented. One of their key disadvantages, examined in this paper, is the low response rates (henceforth RR).Our review of the burgeoning literature on the use of survey methods in business and management research reveals that the issue of RR is a contentious one (Malhotra and Grover 1998;Roth and BeVier, 1998; Baruch, 1999;Rungtusanatham et al., 2003; Baruch and Holom, 2008). On the one hand, RR is an important dimension in the assessment of the soundness of a study using a survey method. A recent survey of editors of journals across the social sciences field revealed that about 90% of editors reported that RR is somewhat or very important criteria in publication decision i (Carley-Baxter et al., 2013). It is "often taken to be the primary measure of quality when assessing the v...

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Costs and benefits of selected response inducement techniques in mail survey research

Cited by 40 publications

References 35 publications

Interpersonal Victimization Among a National Sample of Latino Women

Interpersonal Victimization Among a National Sample of Latino Women

What (Not) to Expect When Surveying Executives

Response Rates in Business and Management Research: An Overview of Current Practice and Suggestions for Future Direction

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