nonresponse

STRATEGIES FOR DEALING WITH NONRESPONSE After each successive wave of contacts with a particular group of potential respondents, the researcher should run a sensitivity analysis That is, one should ascertain how different the non-respondents would have to be from the respondents in order to...

Reducing Non response Attempts to increase the response rate to mail surveys focus on increasing the potential respondents motivation to reply. Two complementary approaches are frequently used. The first is to increase the motivation as such as possible in the initial contacts with...