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Response probabilities and response-mode preferences in a self-administered survey
OBJECTIVE: Response rates in surveys continue to fall, and electronic online versions are increasingly replacing paper questionnaires in order to save costs and time. This can influence the composition of the respondent group in surveys. Using data from a national survey of patient experiences with...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6537201/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31133060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4328-7 |
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author | Sjetne, Ingeborg Strømseng Iversen, Hilde Hestad Holmboe, Olaf Helgeland, Jon |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Response rates in surveys continue to fall, and electronic online versions are increasingly replacing paper questionnaires in order to save costs and time. This can influence the composition of the respondent group in surveys. Using data from a national survey of patient experiences with maternity care, we aimed to (1) classify all of the women invited to participate in the study according to their different probabilities of responding, based on registry data, and (2) classify all of the respondents according to different probabilities of choosing a paper questionnaire when an online alternative was available, based on registry and self-reported data. RESULTS: We found that the likelihood of responding to surveys is strongly influenced by background variables, with the age, number of previous births and geographic origin predicting the response probability (range 0.25–0.73). Education level predicted the likelihood of choosing a paper questionnaire. Women with less education would more likely (probability 0.50) than women with more education (probability 0.38) choose a paper questionnaire rather than answering online. |
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spelling | pubmed-65372012019-05-30 Response probabilities and response-mode preferences in a self-administered survey Sjetne, Ingeborg Strømseng Iversen, Hilde Hestad Holmboe, Olaf Helgeland, Jon BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Response rates in surveys continue to fall, and electronic online versions are increasingly replacing paper questionnaires in order to save costs and time. This can influence the composition of the respondent group in surveys. Using data from a national survey of patient experiences with maternity care, we aimed to (1) classify all of the women invited to participate in the study according to their different probabilities of responding, based on registry data, and (2) classify all of the respondents according to different probabilities of choosing a paper questionnaire when an online alternative was available, based on registry and self-reported data. RESULTS: We found that the likelihood of responding to surveys is strongly influenced by background variables, with the age, number of previous births and geographic origin predicting the response probability (range 0.25–0.73). Education level predicted the likelihood of choosing a paper questionnaire. Women with less education would more likely (probability 0.50) than women with more education (probability 0.38) choose a paper questionnaire rather than answering online. BioMed Central 2019-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6537201/ /pubmed/31133060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4328-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Sjetne, Ingeborg Strømseng Iversen, Hilde Hestad Holmboe, Olaf Helgeland, Jon Response probabilities and response-mode preferences in a self-administered survey |
title | Response probabilities and response-mode preferences in a self-administered survey |
title_full | Response probabilities and response-mode preferences in a self-administered survey |
title_fullStr | Response probabilities and response-mode preferences in a self-administered survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Response probabilities and response-mode preferences in a self-administered survey |
title_short | Response probabilities and response-mode preferences in a self-administered survey |
title_sort | response probabilities and response-mode preferences in a self-administered survey |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6537201/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31133060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4328-7 |
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