Keeping Surveys Valid, Reliable, and Useful: A Tutorial

This tutorial focuses on how to produce reliable and generalizable data from random‐digit‐dialing (RDD) landline and cell phone surveys. The article notes that RDD response rates have declined and explores the impact of this pronounced decline. The tutorial addresses order, response mode, and many o...

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Published in:Risk analysis 2014-08, Vol.34 (8), p.1362-1375
Main Authors: Greenberg, Michael R., Weiner, Marc D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Cooperation
Cooperation rate
Design engineering
Information processing
Internet
Perception
phone surveys
Public opinion surveys
reliability
Research methods
Research strategies
response rate
Response rates
Risk
Risk analysis
Risk perception
sample size
Studies
Survey analysis
survey biases
Survey data
Surveys
Weighting
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Summary:This tutorial focuses on how to produce reliable and generalizable data from random‐digit‐dialing (RDD) landline and cell phone surveys. The article notes that RDD response rates have declined and explores the impact of this pronounced decline. The tutorial addresses order, response mode, and many other biases, sample size, cooperation and response rates, weighting, and hybrid designs‐all using examples from risk analysis to illustrate the key points. The article ends with a brief review of the advantages and disadvantages of major Internet and paper surveys tools, and how these can be molded and sometimes combined in repeated, longitudinal, and other designs to answer questions about risk preferences and perceptions.
ISSN:0272-4332
1539-6924
DOI:10.1111/risa.12250