Improving response rates to mail surveys: A research note

By Paul D. Larson, R. F. Poist. 2004

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• Survey Response Rates and Survey Administration in Counseling and Clinical Psychology (2009, background): “Dey (1997) documented a decline in mail survey responses to national longitudinal studies of college students from 58% in 1961 to 21% in 1991; Larson and Poist (2004) found a decline in mail survey responses of transportation and logistics professionals from approximately 32% in 1992 to about 23%…”
• The End of the (Research) World As We Know It? Understanding and Coping With Declining Response Rates to Mail Surveys (2019, background): “Since then, multiple analyses have documented downward trends in survey response rate over time (Baruch and Holtom, 2008; Massey and Tourangeau 2013; Kreuter 2013; Moghaddam and Mousavi 2009; Larson and Poist 2004; Nulty 2008).”