Effectiveness of a Time-Limited Incentive on Participation by Hard-to-Reach Respondents in a Panel Study

Autor/inn/en	Fomby, Paula; Sastry, Narayan; McGonagle, Katherine A.
Titel	Effectiveness of a Time-Limited Incentive on Participation by Hard-to-Reach Respondents in a Panel Study
Quelle	In: Field Methods, 29 (2017) 3, S.238-251 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-822X
DOI	10.1177/1525822X16670625
Schlagwörter	Incentives; Participation; Child Caregivers; Interviews; Telephone Surveys; Children; Response Rates (Questionnaires); Cost Effectiveness; Longitudinal Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreiz; Teilnahme; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Kind; Kinder; Antwortkontrolle; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	We describe an experiment to provide a time-limited incentive among a random sample of 594 hard-to-reach respondents, 200 of whom were offered the incentive to complete all survey components of a study during a three-week winter holiday period. Sample members were primary caregivers of children included in the 2014 Child Development Supplement to the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The incentive provided US$50 to caregivers who completed a 75-minute telephone interview and whose eligible children each completed a 30-minute interview. Results indicate that the incentive was an effective and cost-efficient strategy to increase short-term response rates with hard-to-reach respondents and had no negative impact on final response rates. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01