E-mail Survey Response Rates: A Review

By Kim Bartel Sheehan. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2006

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Factors affecting response rates of the web survey: A systematic review (2010, background): “According to several meta-analyses, the salience of a topic is one of the most important factors that influence response rates in both mail and web surveys (Cook et al., 2000; Edwards et al., 2002; Sheehan, 2001; Yammarino, Skinner, & Childers, 1991).”
Profiling Teachers' Continuing Professional Development and the Relation with Their Beliefs about Learning and Teaching. (2013, background): “The questionnaire was completed by 260 respondents (average response rate of 25%),which is about average for a web-based survey (Sheehan, 2001) but seemingly low for this population.”
Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard (2006, result): “Although our survey did consist of a vast number of questions, findings related to the relationship between survey length and response rate have been mixed and inconclusive (Brown, 1965; Bruvold & Comer, 1988; Eicherner & Habermehl, 1981; Jobber & Saunders, 1993; Mason, Dressel, & Bain, 1961; Sheeha”
Increasing Access to Higher Education: A Study of the Diffusion of Online Teaching among 913 College Faculty. (2005, result): “This rate of response, while low, is in alignment with rates reported by others using online survey methods (Sheehan, 2001).”
Exploring physician specialist response rates to web-based surveys (2015, background): “Survey response rates have also in general been on the decline for the past decade in the field of health related research [1,6-8].”
Behavioral Integrity: How Leader Referents and Trust Matter to Workplace Outcomes (2012, neutral): “The response rate of 21% to our email survey is close to the email survey response rate of 24% across academic journals, as reviewed by Sheehan (2001).”
Compensating for Low Topic Interest and Long Surveys (2007, background): “Specifically, two recent meta-analyses quantitatively summarized nonexperimental data on factors influencing response rates in Internet-based surveys (Cook, Heath, & Thompson, 2000; Sheehan, 2001).”
Science Parks’ tenants versus out-of-Park firms: who innovates more? A duration model (2008, background): “7 Sheehan (2001) finds response rates to oscillate between 21.6% and 36% and Jobber and Saunders (1993)”
Personality in cyberspace: personal Web sites as media for personality expressions and impressions. (2006, result): “The drop in response rates between 2002 and 2004 is in line with a general trend of decreasing participation in survey research (Sheehan, 2001; Cur-tin, Presser, & Singer, 2005) In addition, in Sample 3 we varied some features of the survey that were uniform in Sample 1.”
An Extension of the Four-Stage Loyalty Model: The Critical Role of Positive Switching Barriers (2012, result): “This response rate falls within the range of 10–15% found in the previous hospitality studies employing an online survey (eg, Han & Kim, 2009 ; Han et al, 2009 ; Kim, 2001 ; Kim & Ok, 2009 ; Kim, Ok, & Canter, 2010 ).”
Graduate Student Mental Health: Needs Assessment and Utilization of Counseling Services (2006, result): “The response rate in this study is similar to other studies using like sampling plans (Shaefer & Dillman, 1998; Sheehan, 2001).”
An Exploratory Analysis of Textbook Usage and Study Habits: Misperceptions and Barriers to Success (2010, background): “While Sheehan (2001) analyzed 31 online surveys and reported a mean response rate of 36.”
Journal Quality in Mathematics Education (2017, background): “Although we would have preferred higher response rates, they were typical for online surveys (Sheehan, 2001).”