Conducting Research Surveys Via E-Mail and The Web

By Ronald D. Fricker Jr., M. Elliott. 2001

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Sampling Methods for Web and E-mail Surveys (2012, methodology): “See, for example, the discussions in Schonlau et al. (2002) and Couper (2000: 486–487).”
Embodied Discrimination: The Relation of Sexism and Distress to Women’s Drinking and Smoking Behaviors (2007, background): “... that web-based questionnaires can be used effectively in collecting data for psychological study (e.g., Buchanan & Smith, 1999; Gosling, Vazire, Srivastava, & John, 2003; Knapp & Kirk, 2003; McCabe, 2004; McCabe, Boyd, Couper, Crawford, & D’Arcy, 2002), and may even be preferable to paper survey”
Choosing Between Internet and Mail Survey Modes for Choice Experiment Surveys Considering Non-Market Goods (2009, result): “This is in support of the group of studies that find internet sampling to lead to increased rates of response (Schonlau et al. 2002).”
Farm Animal Welfare, Consumer Willingness to Pay, and Trust: Results of a Cross-National Survey (2010, positive): “Half of all returns were received within three days and 90% after one week, con-ﬁrming the high speed of Web surveys (Schonlau, Fricker, and Elliott 2002).”
Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Research Surveys: Evidence from the Literature (2002, background): “comparison, Quigley et al. (2000) and the American Community Survey (2000) study”
Propensity score adjustment as a weighting scheme for volunteer panel web surveys (2006, background): “The flexibility of the web as a survey medium has resulted in various types of web surveys (see Schonlau et al. 2002; Manfreda 2001; Couper 2000 for a review).”
Selection Bias in Web Surveys (2010, neutral): “Schonlau et al. (2004) mention as examples “Do you often feel alone?” and “On how many separate occasions did you watch news programs on TV during the past 30 days?” The second condition for this type of adjustment weighting is that the population distribution of the webographic variables must be av”
The value of online surveys (2005, background): “…the years, there has been a lot written about the characteristics of the three other dominant survey methods: the mail survey, the personal survey, and the telephone survey (see, for example, Alreck and Settle 2004; Dillman, 2000; Malhotra and Peterson, 2001; Schonlau et al., 2001; Spaeth, 1977).”
Computing Response Metrics for Online Panels (2008, methodology): “2002; Tourangeau 2003; Of fice of Management and Budget (OMB) 2006; Schonlau et al. 2006; Couper 2007). The cumulative response rate is computed by multiplying the response rate for three stages of panel buildup: recruitment, connection, and specific study response. Some journals advocate the use of”