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Appendix B: Research Agenda Topics Suggested by the Literature
Pages 133-145

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From page 133...
... . The recommendations on research have three objectives: to provide a capital investment in computer programs and data sets that will make nonresponse methodology cheaper to implement and evaluate; to encour age research on and evaluation of theoretical response mechanisms; and to urge that long-term programs be undertaken by individual or groups of survey organizations and sponsors to provide for and accomplish cumula tive survey research, including research on nonresponse.
From page 134...
... Such data sets could be used for testing various methods of bias reduction and for assessing effects of the methods on variances. They could also be used for the evaluation of more general methods depending on models.
From page 135...
... In this case, the barrier would promote refusals by increasing the rate of noncontact over time. Frustration with multiple contact attempts might also partially explain why so many RDD surveys with high nonresponse rates have low nonresponse bias.
From page 136...
... Like investigations of measurement error, these studies may involve disruptions of ongoing efforts to maintain response rates (perhaps even lowering response rates by design) in order to assess their impact on nonresponse bias.
From page 137...
... It also seems advisable to control for previous interviewer performance, which requires survey agencies to record and use these data. A largely unexplored area is interviewer effects in longitudinal surveys.
From page 138...
... respondent incentives. The mechanisms through which they may act on interviewer response rates and nonresponse bias are possibly different from those that act on respondents, as interviewers and respondents have very different roles in the social interaction at the doorstep.
From page 139...
... More research into public attitudes to data collection modes would shed light on this issue and might help guide survey designers in making mode choices. Offering different survey agencies/countries or respondents Roberts (2005:4)
From page 140...
... Each mode has weaknesses, and we need to be aware of what those weaknesses are. Cell Phones In terms of nonresponse, cell phone response rates trend American Association somewhat lower than comparable landline response rates, for Public Opinion but the size of the gap between the rates for the two frames Research (2010a:109)
From page 141...
... Research is needed on the conditions under which incentives Singer (2000:25) not only increase response rates but produce a meaningful reduction in nonresponse bias.
From page 142...
... We encourage survey researchers to engage actively in identifying an appropriate set of auxiliary variables in developing non-response adjustment weights. This should include identifying measures at the design stage that can be obtained on both respondents and non-respondents and that are good proxy variables for one or multiple survey variables.
From page 143...
... Second, we recommend bringing interviewer characteristics into the equation when assessing paradata quality (e.g., years of experience, gender, education)
From page 144...
... economic statistical programs since the 1940s. There are also good examples of administrative data use with vital statistics, population estimates, and other programs across several federal statistical agencies.
From page 145...
... variables. Administrative data can also assist researchers in better National Research understanding nonresponse bias and the impact of lower Council (2011:50)


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