Changes in Telephone Survey Nonresponse over the Past Quarter Century

By R. Curtin, S. Presser, E. Singer. 2005

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

• International handbook of survey methodology. (2008, background): “When a list does not include the telephone number or a name and address, commercial services in the United States attempt to locate the missing information for a fee, but successful matches occur for only 40–50% of the selected sample (Curtin et al., 2005).”
• Increases in morbid obesity in the USA: 2000-2005. (2007, background): “Biases may change over time and noticeable declines in participation or response rates have been reported, especially since the mid-1990s.(16,17) A meta-analysis of research papers in epidemiology and public health found that participation rates during 1970–2003 changed between 0.”
• Work values and beliefs of ‘Generation X’ and ‘Generation Y’ (2014, background): “Reflecting growing public reluctance to participate in surveys (Curtin, Presser, and Singer 2005; Dillman, Smyth, and Christian 2008), only 73% of this second cohort provided contact information.”
• Quota Sampling as an Alternative to Probability Sampling? An Experimental Study (2014, background): “For instance, Curtin et al. ( 2005) examined the response rate changes on the University of Michigan's Survey of Consumer Attitudes from 1979 to 1996.”
• Survey Response Rates and Survey Administration in Counseling and Clinical Psychology (2009, background): “Curtin, Presser, and Singer (2005) found a steeper decline in response rates to telephone surveys from 1996 to 2003 than those from 1979 to 1996.”
• Do low survey response rates bias results? Evidence from Japan (2015, background): “In the mid-1950s, response rates were close to 90% (Steeh 1981); by 2003, the response rate was below 50% (Curtin, Presser, and Singer 2005).”
• Public climate-change skepticism, energy preferences and political participation (2013, background): “This response rate reflects the growing unwillingness to respond to phone surveys in general (Curtin et al., 2005; Keeter et al., 2006).”