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Monetary Incentives in Mail Surveys

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JS Armstrong (The Wharton School)

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Eighteen empirical studies from fourteen different researchers provide evidence that prepaid monetary incentives have a strong positive impact on the response rate in mail surveys. One of these studies is described here and an attempt is made to generalize from all eighteen about the relationship between size of incentives and reduction in nonresponse. These generalizations should be of value for the design of mail survey studies.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series General Economics and Teaching with number 0502045.

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Date of creation: 11 Feb 2005
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Keywords: monetary incentives surveys

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  1. JS Armstrong, 2005. "Review of Don A. Dillman's Mail and Telephone Surveys, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978," General Economics and Teaching 0502043, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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