Web surveys: a review of issues and approaches.

By Mick Couper. Public Opinion Quarterly, 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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Is stalking a learned phenomenon? An empirical test of social learning theory (2011, result): “…total of 2,783 students participated voluntarily, which represented a 19% response rate.6 While the response rate is relatively low, the rate is consistent with other webbased survey research, particularly without respondent incentives (Nobles, Fox, Piquero, & Piquero, 2009; see also Couper, 2000).”
Logging On and Letting Out: Using Online Social Networks to Grieve and to Mourn (2010, background): “The findings offer insight into how those who bothered to respond think and feel, and into why they turned to online media to grieve and to memorialize (Couper, 2000).”
Open-ended vs. close-ended questions in Web questionnaires (2003, background): “Therefore it is a non-probability Web survey (Couper, 2000b).”
The impact of material incentives on response quantity, response quality, sample composition, survey outcome, and cost in online access panels (2004, background): “Online panels are an important, if not the dominant, form of reactive web-based research in the medium term (Couper 2000).”
Comparing Response Rates from Web and Mail Surveys: A Meta-Analysis (2008, background): “In any discussion of online data collection, the college population has been distinctly separate from the noncollege population, both in terms of Internet coverage (Couper 2000) and whether survey findings can be generalized (McCabe 2004).”
Increasing Web Survey Response Rates in Innovation Research: An Experimental Study of Static and Dynamic Contact Design Features (2013, neutral): “Survey participation is a particularly acute issue for web surveys, which tend to suffer from lower response rates than other survey modes, especially as low survey costs lead to “oversurveying” (cf. Couper, 2000; Fricker et al., 2005; Kaplowitz et al., 2004; Rogelberg & Stanton, 2007).”
Should we trust web-based studies? A comparative analysis of six preconceptions about internet questionnaires. (2004, background): “…about self-selected Internet assessments requiring representative samples, such as general surveys, opinion polls, or other research often used in sociology and other social sciences that rely on probabilistic sampling (but see Best, Krueger, Hubbarb, & Smith, 2001; Couper, 2000; Taylor, 2000).”
Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Research Surveys: Evidence from the Literature (2002, neutral): “While lower costs are often touted as one of the benefits of Internet-based surveys, Couper et al. (1999) found no cost benefit in e-mail compared to postal mail surveys in their work.”
Selection Bias in Web Surveys (2010, neutral): “See for example Couper (2000), and Dillman & Bowker (2001).”
Sampling Methods for Web and E-mail Surveys (2012, background): “As discussed in Couper (2000), an important issue with intercept surveys is that there is no way to assess nonresponse bias, simply because no information is available on those that choose not to complete a survey.”
Three maps and three misunderstandings: A digital mapping of climate diplomacy (2014, neutral): “(Couper, 2000).”
Conducting behavioral research on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (2011, neutral): “Surveys conducted on Mechanical Turk share the same advantages and disadvantages as any online survey (Andrews, Nonnecke, & Preece, 2003; Couper, 2000).”
Speeding in Web Surveys: The tendency to answer very fast and its association with straightlining (2014, background): “…the level of e ﬀ ort people are willing to ex-pend on a Web survey can be inﬂuenced by a variety of factors, e.g., incentives, questionnaire design, survey length, and types of panels (see Couper, 2000; Tourangeau, Conrad, & Couper, 2013) which, in turn, a ﬀ ect the likelihood they will speed.”
Web Surveys versus other Survey Modes: A Meta-Analysis Comparing Response Rates (2008, background): “However, also in web surveys there is the problem of non-response (Couper 2000; Vehovar et al .”
E-mail interviewing in qualitative research: A methodological discussion (2006, neutral): “, Curasi, 2001; Meho & Tibbo, 2003; Murray, 2004; Murray & Harrison, 2004). These studies found that participants interviewed via e-mail remained more focused on the interview questions and provided more reflectively dense accounts than their face-to-face counterparts. This is not to say that the qu”
Internet Addiction: Metasynthesis of 1996–2006 Quantitative Research (2009, neutral): “In an analysis of the challenges associated with Internet surveying, Couper 50 concludes that if a survey targets Internet users only, it is a good decision to employ the Internet survey mode.”