Incentives in Web Studies: Methodological Issues and a Review

By Anja S. Göritz. 2006

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Sampling Methods for Web and E-mail Surveys (2012, methodology): “A large-scale, unrestricted, self-selected survey, conducted as a collaborative effort between the National Geographic Society (NGS) and some academic researchers, Survey2000 was ﬁelded in 1998.”
Examining Factors Impacting Online Survey Response Rates in Educational Research: Perceptions of Graduate Students (2017, background): “The amount of incentives, however, did not show a clear, significant effect on survey response rates (Bosnjak, & Tutem, 2003; Dykema et al., 2012; Goritz, 2006; Porter, & Whitcomb, 2003).”
Detecting, Preventing, and Responding to “Fraudsters” in Internet Research: Ethics and Tradeoffs (2015, background): “Methods of detection and prevention of both duplicate submissions and fraudulent behavior are at times the same, while at other times they are different.”
Dealing with nonresponse: Strategies to increase participation and methods for postsurvey adjustments (2014, background): “Kalton and Flores-Cervantes (2003) argue that poststratification weighting is often used when little is known about nonrespondents and auxiliary information is limited.”
Improving Survey Response Rates in Online Panels (2016, background): “For example, Göritz (2006b) finds that incentives have a smaller effect on response than on retention.”
Web-Face-to-Face Mixed-Mode Design in a Longitudinal Survey: Effects on Participation Rates, Sample Composition, and Costs (2017, background): “Positive effects of incentives on response rates have been found for web surveys (Göritz 2006, 2010, 2015).”
Improving Response To Web and Mixed-Mode Surveys (2011, methodology): “The effectiveness of this incentive in our study appears much greater than the effects of other types of incentives in Web surveys, as prior studies illustrate (e.g., Go¨ritz 2006).”
Factors affecting response rates of the web survey: A systematic review (2010, background): “For example, providing incentives is not an effective way to increase response and reduce dropouts under certain circumstance for certain population (Cobanoglu & Cobanoglu, 2003; Goritz, 2006).”
The impact of material incentives on response quantity, response quality, sample composition, survey outcome, and cost in online access panels (2004, methodology): “…(158) was self-selected, that is, they had found the panel through means such as newsgroups, search engines, links and word-ofmouth , whereas the other half (159) had registered after they were solicited via email, fax, letter, or flier, as part of a recruitment experiment (Göritz 2004c).”
Computer-Delivered and Web-Based Interventions to Improve Depression, Anxiety, and Psychological Well-Being of University Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2014, unknown): “A meta-analysis of Web-based surveys found that incentives for participation increased individuals’ motivation to start and complete the survey [63].”
Increasing Web Survey Response Rates in Innovation Research: An Experimental Study of Static and Dynamic Contact Design Features (2013, unknown): “, 2009; Porter, 2004), while others find positive effects (Cobanoglu & Cobanoglu, 2003; Goeritz, 2006; Porter & Whitcomb, 2003b).”
Conducting behavioral research on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (2011, unknown): “In fact, previous work has shown that o ﬀ ering participants ﬁnancial incentives increases both the response and retention rates of online surveys relative to not o ﬀ ering any ﬁnancial incentive (G¨oritz, 2006; Frick, B¨achtiger, & Reips, 2001).”
Compensating for Low Topic Interest and Long Surveys (2007, result): “Again, the value of this incentive exactly replicated earlier nonexperimental research and is fairly typical for web surveys in general (e.g., Göritz, 2006).”