Web survey design and administration.

By Mick Couper, Michael W. Traugott, Mark J. Lamias. Public Opinion Quarterly, 2001

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Conducting Online Surveys (2006, background): “Couper et al. (2001) examined the systematic effects of Web questionnaire design on the behavior of respondents.”
Response Rate and Response Quality of Internet-Based Surveys: An Experimental Study (2004, neutral): “Some authors have started to test the inﬂuence of certain format or design parameters (Couper et al., 2001; Dillman et al., 1998; Lozar Manfreda et al., 2002; Sheehan and McMillan, 1999).”
Non-response in student surveys: The Role of Demographics, Engagement and Personality (2005, background): “However, two metaanalytic studies (Barrick, Mount, and Gupta, 2003; Larson, Rottingham, and Borgen, 2002) have examined the intercorrelations of the ‘‘Big Five’’ and Holland’s Big Six personality measures (For a review, see Mount et al., 2004 ).”
A guide for the design and conduct of self-administered surveys of clinicians (2008, background): “Respondents may be more likely to enter invalid responses in long- versus shortentry boxes, and the use of radio buttons may decrease the likelihood of missing data compared with entry boxes.(21) [Radio buttons, or option buttons, are graphic interface objects used in electronic surveys that allow u”
Psychological research online: report of Board of Scientific Affairs' Advisory Group on the Conduct of Research on the Internet. (2004, background): “Alternately, one can invite participation by sending personalized e-mail messages to active subjects in either specialized or more general online communities (see Couper, Traugott, & Lamias, 2001, for a review of sampling approaches for Internet surveys).”
Response Rates In Hospitality Research: An Overview of Current Practice and Suggestions For Future Research (2020, background): “Cobanoglu and Cobanoglu (2003) and Couper et al. (2001) have pointed out that internet-based surveys are more popular than ever, but little research has been done on increasing response rate.”
Information seeking and social support in online health communities: impact on patients' perceived empathy (2011, neutral): “This study has limitations. First, the study sample was taken from online communities run by HCOs—the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Joslin Diabetes Center. These are highly reputable and large HCOs, which might limit the generalizability of the study findin”
Electronic Survey Methodology: A Case Study in Reaching Hard-to-Involve Internet Users (2003, background): “, 1 [the number one] or l [or the letter l]) lower response rates (Couper et al., 2001).”
Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Research Surveys: Evidence from the Literature (2002, background): “Jones and Pitt (1999:556) sampled staff members at “10 universities whose staff directories were available on the WWW,” and Couper, Traugott, and Lamias (2001) surveyed 1,602 University of Michigan students.”
Differential response rates in postal and web-based surveys in older respondents (2009, background): “Web-based surveys may be advantageous in that they are potentially time-, effort- and cost-saving (Bälter et al. 2005; Couper 2000; Couper et al. 2001; McDonald and Adam 2003; Denscombe 2006).”
Factors affecting response rates of the web survey: A systematic review (2010, background): “For instance, considerable literature have discussed screen-byscreen and scrolling questionnaires as two types of questionnaire layouts (Couper et al., 2001; Peytchev, Couper, McCabe, & Crawford, 2006; Tourangeau et al., 2004).”
The impact of material incentives on response quantity, response quality, sample composition, survey outcome, and cost in online access panels (2004, methodology): “Respondents were considered to have used a response set (Couper et al. 2001), if they had clicked the same choice (e.g. the 'I somewhat disagree' choice) down the column for all items of one of the three scales.”
A survey-based assessment of how existing and potential electric vehicle owners perceive range anxiety (2020, methodology): “In particular, we rely on the design of well-crafted surveys (Couper et al., 2001) and follow the cross-industry standard process for data mining (CRISP-DM) methodology (Wirth and Hipp, 2000).”
Open-ended vs. close-ended questions in Web questionnaires (2003, background): “In this paper we are going to present another experiment regarding the difference between open-and close-ended questions in Web questionnaires when a text response (in contrast to the numerical one in Couper et al. (2001) example) is required.”