Raising Response Rates: What Works?.

By Stephen R. Porter. 2004

256 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Examining Factors Impacting Online Survey Response Rates in Educational Research: Perceptions of Graduate Students (2017, background): “Porter (2004b) found that people were more likely to respond to survey requests from authority figures or if they were addressed as a part of a select group chosen to fill out the survey (2004a).”
• Survey response rate levels and trends in organizational research (2008, background): “As populations change (e.g. Baby-boomers retire and younger, more technologically adept workers take their place) and technology evolves, we believe that electronic surveys (e.g. email or web) will become much more prevalent (Porter, 2004; Porter & Whitcomb, 2006; Simsek & Veiga, 2001).”
• Response Rates In Hospitality Research: An Overview of Current Practice and Suggestions For Future Research (2020, background): “This norm suggests that people treat others as they have been treated, so adding an incentive for completing a survey will positively affect response rate as a norm of social responsibility (Porter, 2004).”
• Factors affecting response rates of the web survey: A systematic review (2010, background): “There are different types of contacts in web surveys, such as pre-notification (contacts sending out before surveys), e-mail invitations (contacts containing a hyperlink to survey websites), and e-mail reminders (Porter, 2004).”
• Increasing Web Survey Response Rates in Innovation Research: An Experimental Study of Static and Dynamic Contact Design Features (2013, unknown): “…difficult questions, and potential risks regarding the disclosure of confidential data (Anderson, 2003; Dillman et al., 2009; Groves et al., 2006; Porter, 2004).3 The various design features of a survey invitation may affect the perceived costs and benefits of responding and thus recipients’…”