Reducing Panel Attrition: A Search for Effective Policy Instruments

By D. Hill, R. Willis. 2001

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The Causes of No-Opinion Responses to Attitude Measures in Surveys: They Are Rarely What They Appear to Be (2002, background): “Beatty, P., Henmann, D., Puskar, C., and Kenvin, J. (1998), "Don't Know Responses in Surveys: Is What 1 know What You Want to Know, and Do I Want You to Know it?"”
Identifying Factors Affecting Longitudinal Survey Response (2009, background): “Interviewer assessments of how cooperative the respondent was, how much they enjoyed the interview and / or the ease with which the survey questions could be answered, have invariably been found to be highly predictive of cooperation at the next survey wave (e.g., Kalton et al., 1990; Branden et al.”
The use of respondent incentives on longitudinal surveys (2008, background): “…of respondents or the interview length is longer than usual, survey organis tions may pay more in recognition of this – even though there is no clear evidence of a relationship between interview length or perceptions of burden on subsequent wave response (Hill and Willis, 2001; Martin et al, 2001).”
Panel Attrition (2014, background): “Hill and Willis (2001) furthermore hypothesize that in self-administered surveys, long interviewing time is negatively associated with future participation.”