Respondent Incentives, Interviewer Training, and Survey Participation

受访者激励、访调员培训和调查参与

• 批准号: 162124291
• 负责人: Professor Axel Börsch-Supan, Ph.D.
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Mannheimer Forschungsinstitut Ökonomie und Demographischer Wandel (MEA)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2009-12-31 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/162124291?language=en
• 关键词: Respondent; Incentives; Interviewer; Training; Survey

Survey participation has been declining in Germany and Europe over the past decades. This may harm the reliability of the collected data because the non-participation may not be random. As a consequence, results drawn from these data may be biased since the sample may not be representative of the actual target population.The proposed research project will target this issue from both ends. First, we will investigate how participation in face-to-face interviews can be increased in Germany. The Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) will provide the backbone for a large scale experiment which will be conducted with at least 4,000 individuals. We will examine the effect of unconditional monetary incentives on the respondents' willingness to participate and thus on the overall survey response rates. In addition, a group of interviewers will receive special training on refusal avoidance (RAT), to test the effectiveness of RAT on response rates. Second, we will conduct a mixed-modes non-response study to quantify the potential non-response bias.The results from this project will enable researchers to more effectively choose between the use of respondent incentives and special interviewer training when conducting surveys. The long term consequences of this particular project are thus important for planned and existing survey projects in countries, where the use of incentives and training has not been thoroughly investigated yet. In addition the actual consequences of non-response will be assessed, which will provide evidence on the extent of non-response bias.

过去几十年来，德国和欧洲的调查参与率一直在下降。这可能会损害收集数据的可靠性，因为不参与可能不是随机的。因此，从这些数据中得出的结果可能会有偏差，因为样本可能不能代表实际的目标人群。首先，我们将研究如何在德国增加面对面访谈的参与。欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查（SHARE）将为一项大规模实验提供基础，该实验将在至少4,000人中进行。我们会研究无条件金钱诱因对受访者参与调查的意愿，以至整体调查回应率的影响。此外，一组面试官将接受有关拒绝避免（RAT）的特殊培训，以测试RAT对回复率的有效性。第二，我们将进行一项混合模式的无回应研究，以量化潜在的无回应偏差。该项目的结果将使研究人员在进行调查时更有效地选择使用受访者激励措施或特殊访问员培训。因此，这一特定项目的长期后果对于尚未彻底调查激励措施和培训的国家计划和现有的调查项目非常重要。此外，还将评估无应答的实际后果，这将为无应答偏倚的程度提供证据。