Effects of E-Mailed Versus Mailed Invitations and Incentives on Response Rates, Data Quality, and Costs in a Web Survey of University Faculty

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 359-370

  Dykema, Jennifer ^a   Stevenson, John ^a   Klein, Lisa ^b   Kim, Yujin ^a   Day, Brendan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

costs; demographic representativeness; incentives; mailed invitations; response rates; web surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877323148     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439312465254     Document Type: Article

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