Survey Page Length and Progress Indicators: What Are Their Relationships to Item Nonresponse?

Sarraf, Shimon; Tukibayeva, Malika

doi:10.1002/ir.20069

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“…Future testing should aim to collect evaluation data online, that is, an online survey would enable respondents to complete the survey at their convenience, also allowing for the collection of detailed demographic and outcome data. Furthermore, while missing data were not an issue in this feasibility study, longer surveys pose a greater risk for missing data (Galesic & Bosnjak, 2009; Sarraf & Tukibayeva, 2014). Online data collection tools have capabilities that can minimize nonresponse bias (Albaum, Roster, Wiley, Rossiter, & Smith, 2010) and, therefore, will be incorporated into future testing phases.…”

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Designing a Transgender Health Training for Correctional Health Care Providers: A Feasibility Study

Hughto

Clark

2019

The Prison Journal

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Limited provider knowledge on transgender health contributes to stigmatizing interactions and access-to-care challenges for incarcerated transgender people. Drawing on interviews with recently incarcerated transgender individuals and correctional staff, we developed and piloted a transgender health training for correctional healthcare providers. Providers indicated that the training provided them with the requisite competencies to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients. Participants also found the intervention to be highly acceptable and feasible and recommended that the training be provided to others. Additionally, results suggested that the training may be able to increase providers’ transgender-related knowledge. Further testing of the intervention is warranted.

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confidence: 92%

Designing a Transgender Health Training for Correctional Health Care Providers: A Feasibility Study

Hughto

Clark

2019

The Prison Journal

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“…These qualities of web-survey tools can make them an ideal option for the study of sensitive topics, and sociological research thrives on the investigation of such topics. However, a crucial limitation of web surveys is that they generally produce relatively low response rates, potentially increasing the threat of nonresponse bias (Dugan et al 2015; Sarraf and Cole 2014). Improving response rates does not necessarily eliminate the possibility of nonresponse bias, but the systematic application of a different protocol in the second phase of a responsive survey design draws in respondents who themselves are systematically different than those in the first phase (Axinn et al 2011; Peytchev et al 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Surveys of individual college students have suffered from declining response rates (Jans and Roman 2007), with recent large national multi-institutional studies obtaining response rates around 30 percent (Dugan, Turman, and Torrez 2015; Krebs et al 2016; Sarraf and Cole 2014). Krebs et al (2016) conducted a similar survey at several schools and produced average response rates of 54 percent for females and 40 percent for males.…”

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Applying Responsive Survey Design to Small-Scale Surveys: Campus Surveys of Sexual Misconduct

Axinn

Wagner

Couper

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Sociological Methods & Research

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Responsive survey design is a technique aimed at improving the efficiency or quality of surveys by using incoming data from the field to make design changes. The technique was pioneered on large national surveys, but the tools can also be applied on the smaller-scale surveys most commonly used by sociologists. We demonstrate responsive survey design in a small-scale, list-based sample survey of students on the topic of sexual misconduct. We investigate the impact of individual incentive levels and a two-phase responsive design with changes to mode of contact as approaches for limiting the potential of nonresponse bias in data from such surveys. Our analyses demonstrate that a two-phase design introducing telephone and face-to-face reminders to complete the survey can produce stronger change in response rates and characteristics of those who respond than higher incentive levels. These findings offer tools for sociologists designing smaller-scale surveys of special populations or sensitive topics.

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“…One area of concentrated work investigated the use of progress indicators in online surveys (Villar, Callegaro, & Yang, 2013. Also see Conrad, Couper, Tourangeau, & Peytchev, 2010;Matzat, Snijders, and van der Horst 2009;and Sarraf and Tukibayeva, 2014). The emphasis was on the effect of alternative progress-indicator design to reduce "drop-off rates" -that is, to minimize the probability that a respondent fails to complete a survey after starting it.…”

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Information Technology Progress Indicators

Amer

Johnson

2016

International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction

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Users of information technology (IT) often encounter “progress indicators” during their interactions. These graphics appear on screen as a user waits for a task to complete and are designed to inform the user of the progress made as the task moves toward completion. This study employs theoretical models from research on human experiences in waiting to develop hypotheses related to the design of one type of progress indicator: the “stalling progress bar.” That is, a progress bar that moves consistently during most of the computing process but then stalls for an indeterminate period before completing. Data from one experiment indicates that participants preferred a progress bar that moves consistently to a stalling progress bar, and judged the process duration to be shorter with the linear progress bar. Data from a second experiment indicates that displaying an explanatory message with a stalling progress bar enhances participant's perception about the stalling bar.

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Survey Page Length and Progress Indicators: What Are Their Relationships to Item Nonresponse?

Abstract: The popularity of online student surveys has been associated with greater item nonresponse. This chapter presents research aimed at exploring what factors might help minimize item nonresponse, such as altering online survey page length and using progress indicators.

Cited by 6 publications

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Designing a Transgender Health Training for Correctional Health Care Providers: A Feasibility Study

Designing a Transgender Health Training for Correctional Health Care Providers: A Feasibility Study

Applying Responsive Survey Design to Small-Scale Surveys: Campus Surveys of Sexual Misconduct

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