Gaia, Alessandra;
(2017)
The Effect of Respondent Incentives on Panel Attrition in a Sequential Mixed-mode Design.
(Understanding Society Working Papers Series
2017-03).
Institute for Social and Economic Research: Colchester, UK.
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Abstract
This paper evaluates the effect of switching an existing panel study from a unimode face-to-face design to a sequential mixed-mode design (web followed by face-to-face interviewing) on attrition. I use large-scale randomised experimental data from the Innovation Panel of Understanding Society. While the introduction of a mixed-mode design increases panel attrition one wave after the mode switch (IP6), the effect is eroded at subsequent waves (IP7-IP9). The offer of higher incentives to sample members in the mixed-mode group cancels the negative effect of mixed-mode on attrition one wave after the mode switch (IP6) and leads to higher response over time (IP7-IP9).
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | The Effect of Respondent Incentives on Panel Attrition in a Sequential Mixed-mode Design |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/pu... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Panel attrition, individual-level non response, mixed-mode, web surveys |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192962 |
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