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Eliciting Survey Cooperation

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  • Martha E. Kropf

    (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

  • Johnny Blair

    (Abt Associates, Inc.)

Abstract

Given the weaker ties to community as noted by scholars such as Robert Putnam, survey researchers should not be surprised by a decline in survey participation over the past 10 years. This research analyzes the use of incentives coupled with introductory themes emphasizing cooperation and helpfulness—cooperative norms in American society—to understand their effects on survey response. This article analyzes two separate experiments (one phone and one mail) that provide evidence that norms of cooperation matter in the decision to participate in a survey, suggesting that this is particularly true at the refusal conversion stage. These results indicate that survey researchers may use such themes to their advantage, especially when conducting a nonresponse follow-up in a mail survey.

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  • Martha E. Kropf & Johnny Blair, 2005. "Eliciting Survey Cooperation," Evaluation Review, , vol. 29(6), pages 559-575, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:29:y:2005:i:6:p:559-575
    DOI: 10.1177/0193841X05278770
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