Improving Response To Web and Mixed-Mode Surveys

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The End of the (Research) World As We Know It? Understanding and Coping With Declining Response Rates to Mail Surveys (2019, background): “For example, researchers are increasingly adding web options to mail surveys, in part to boost response rates (Medway and Fulton 2012) by allowing potential participants to respond using the mode they prefer (Millar and Dillman 2011; Shih and Fan 2008).”
Does Giving People Their Preferred Survey Mode Actually Increase Survey Participation Rates? An Experimental Examination (2012, background): “Concerns about mode preference are most often voiced when conducting mixed mode self-administered surveys (Dillman et al. 2009; Millar and Dillman 2011).”
Contemporary Guidance for Stated Preference Studies (2017, background): “The same sequence of contacts long advocated by Dillman (1978, 1991) for mail surveys can be used to invite sample members to respond via the web (e.g., Messer and Dillman 2011; Millar and Dillman 2011; Tancreto et al. 2012).”
Changes in Data Sharing and Data Reuse Practices and Perceptions among Scientists Worldwide (2015, background): “Web surveys tend to have low response rates compared to other modes of distribution [40] but due to reliance on others to distribute the survey invitation and link to their institutions, colleagues, and listservs, we do not know how many potential respondents received the invitation and cannot estim”