Factors Affecting Response Rates to Natural Resource - Focused Mail Surveys: Empirical Evidence of Declining Rates Over Time

Connelly, Nancy A.; Brown, Tommy L.; Decker, Daniel J.

doi:10.1080/08941920309152

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“…This is at the low end of response rates now argued to be typical (Connelly et al 2003) but is comparable to those in other contingent valuation studies of private landowners (Banerjee et al 2007;Shaik et al 2007). Responses were from a spectrum of property sizes and land uses appropriate for illustrating the use of the contingent valuation approach to estimate amenity income values on a case study basis (Needham and Vaske 2008).…”

Section: Responses To Contingent Valuationsupporting

confidence: 81%

“…The Dillman four-wave method was used (Dillman 1978), resulting in a 64% survey response rate with 98 completed questionnaires, encompassing more than 10% of California oak woodlands on an acreage basis. The response rate attained overall is considered more than adequate (Connelly et al 2003;Huntsinger et al 2010;Needham and Vaske 2008), but the response rate for the main contingent valuation question was lower. To augment valid responses to the contingent valuation question for modeling purposes, 17 additional oak woodland owners were interviewed as part of a study of foothill landowners (Sulak and Huntsinger 2007), making the final number of respondents 115.…”

Section: Landowner Samplementioning

confidence: 99%

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Income value of private amenities assessed in California oak woodlands

Oviedo¹,

Huntsinger²,

Campos³

et al. 2012

Cal Ag

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Landowners in California were surveyed using a contingent valuation technique to assess its usefulness in estimating the monetary income value of private amenities from their oak woodland properties. Private amenities -such as recreation, scenic beauty and a rural lifestyle -are considered an important influence on rangeland owners, but few studies have attempted to place a monetary income value on them. Landowners were asked to estimate the maximum amount of earnings that they were willing to forgo before selling their property to invest in more commercially profitable, nonagrarian assets, and the proportion of the land price that they thought was explained by private amenities from their land. On average, landowners were willing to pay $54 per acre annually for private amenities, and they attributed 57% of the land price to them. Regression analysis revealed that the landowners' willingness to pay per acre decreased as property size increased. This approach sheds light on how landowners value the benefits of land ownership and offers insights for outreach and policy development for privately owned oak woodlands. P rivate amenities from California oak woodlands -including benefits such as recreational opportunities, scenic beauty, living in the country, and protecting wildlife and water qualityare important influences on landowner decisions and income (Huntsinger et al. 2010). Efforts to value these amenities in California and other Western states have included analyses of the relationship between land prices and property size (Pope 1985), tree density (Diamond et al. 1987), distance to open space (Standiford and Scott 2002) and production value (Torell et al. 2005). The most common commercial land use in oak woodlands is livestock grazing (Huntsinger et al. 2010), but throughout the West, private amenities are believed to be an important factor in explaining why land prices for ranches exceed their commercial production value (Torell et al. 2005). With land-use change and fragmentation threatening the extensive habitat and watershed benefits provided by private oak woodlands, understanding landowners' decisions and values is a conservation priority.Advocates of conserving areas that produce crops, livestock, hunting or timber, as well as other ecosystem services, call them "working landscapes," a term that fits oak woodlands well. The concept of ecosystem services is commonly defined as the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. Continued ecosystem services from oak woodlands depend largely on the commercial profitability of ranches, their amenity value to their owners and the opportunity costs of competing land uses -in other words, on the cost of maintaining oak woodland ownership measured as the foregone benefits from using the land for something else or selling it. Estimating values for private amenities can contribute to our understanding of landowners' decisions and their responsiveness to outreach and policies for oak woodlands. This is also important for assessing the economic value of the natural res...

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Section: Responses To Contingent Valuationsupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: Landowner Samplementioning

confidence: 99%

Income value of private amenities assessed in California oak woodlands

Oviedo¹,

Huntsinger²,

Campos³

et al. 2012

Cal Ag

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“…Wetlands are defined according to the New Zealand Resource Management Act (1991). The response rate per region ranged from 19% to 32% of farmers sampled, and averaged 25.3%, about the same as other surveys of New Zealand farm populations in recent years (Connelly, Brown, & Decker, 2003).…”

Section: Questionnaire and Study Populationsupporting

confidence: 61%

“…It also assumes a representative questionnaire sample. One limitation of this study is that only 25% of dairy farmers completed the questionnaire, even if this reflects an acceptable rate of return (Connelly et al, 2003). It is also possible that more farmers favourable to planting completed the questionnaire than farmers unfavourable to planting, thus biasing the results.…”

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confidence: 94%

Evaluation of a dairy agri-environmental programme for restoring woody green infrastructure

McWilliam

Fukuda

Møller

et al. 2017

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Pastoral landscape woody vegetation provides ecosystem services, but potentially competes for space, light and nutrients that could provide additional farm production. A questionnaire determined the values and behaviours of New Zealand dairy farmers to evaluate voluntary agri-environmental programmes for restoring woody vegetation. Findings indicate the area is increasing, while the composition and configuration of networks are changing and redistributing. Farms with little are losing more, and those with more are gaining. Farmers are planting new areas to increase their public ecosystem services, but may not provide these services through planting and management. Barriers include insufficient private woody vegetation ecosystem services, and low rates of growth of native plants. Government incentive programmes are ineffective in overcoming barriers. Farmers may be motivated by stronger evidence of valued ecosystem services, information about their benefits and drawbacks and how to support services through planting and management. However, a targeted environmental stewardship scheme is required to overcome barriers to planting, with government and the dairy industry working together to develop and maintain a landscape-scaled woody vegetation network on private and public land. Such networks would build sustainability and resilience into dairy farming, leading to an equitably sharing of benefits and costs of their public ecosystem services. KEYWORDS

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“…One limitation was the low survey response rate, a finding that is increasingly common in mailed surveys. 21 However, we found no differences between survey responders and non-responders in PAP adherence, and using a mailed survey facilitated participation of older patients and those with lower socioeconomic status. 22,23 We only had adherence data from the VA site, which may limit the generalizability of our findings to women and non-veterans.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 55%

Patient-Reported Usability of Positive Airway Pressure Equipment Is Associated With Adherence in Older Adults

Fung

Martin

Patterson

et al. 2017

Sleep

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Study objectives:To examine the usability of positive airway pressure (PAP) devices and its association with PAP adherence among older adults with sleep-disordered breathing. Methods: We mailed questionnaires to patients aged ≥65 years prescribed PAP therapy during the prior 36 months from two large healthcare systems. Survey participants completed the Usability of Sleep Apnea Equipment-Positive Airway Pressure (USE-PAP) questionnaire, which assessed the usability of their PAP device. Other questionnaire items included demographics and self-rated health. We also abstracted adherence data (mean nightly hours of PAP use available from one site) and interface type from the electronic health record. Results: Five hundred sixty-four patients completed the survey (response rate = 33%). The mean USE-PAP score (0 = best to 100 = worst) was 20 (SD ± 20). Mean duration of PAP use (available in 189 respondents) was 5.2 hours per night (SD ± 2.0). In a nested regression model predicting nightly hours of PAP use, a 10-point (0.5 SD) increase in USE-PAP score corresponded to a 0.37 hour/night reduction in PAP use. The model including the USE-PAP score explained a significant proportion (R 2 = 15%) of the variation in nightly hours of PAP use above and beyond demographics, self-reported health, and interface type (∆R 2 = 12%). Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that PAP usability varies among older patients and is associated with PAP adherence, above and beyond other predictors of adherence. These results support measuring and improving PAP usability to further improve PAP adherence for older patients.

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Factors Affecting Response Rates to Natural Resource - Focused Mail Surveys: Empirical Evidence of Declining Rates Over Time

Cited by 113 publications

References 16 publications

Income value of private amenities assessed in California oak woodlands

Income value of private amenities assessed in California oak woodlands

Evaluation of a dairy agri-environmental programme for restoring woody green infrastructure

Patient-Reported Usability of Positive Airway Pressure Equipment Is Associated With Adherence in Older Adults

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