Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/91697 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2012-28
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
We consider the effect of a wave of mixed-mode data collection (telephone and face-to-face), in an otherwise face-to-face survey, on panel attrition and the extent to which this effect is dependent on the nature of the mode-switch protocol. Findings are reported from an experiment on a survey in which the objective is to interview each adult member of the household. One protocol involves making extended efforts to interview each household member by telephone before switching to face-to-face, while the other involves switching a household to face-to-face as soon as it is apparent that an interviewer visit will be needed for at least one household member. With both protocols response rate at the mixed-mode wave is lower than with face-to-face single mode data collection, but with the protocol involving extended efforts this response differential is eroded over the following two waves, while with the other protocol the difference remains.
Subjects: 
mixed modes
panel attrition
R-indicators
telephone interviewing
Understanding Society Innovation Panel
JEL: 
C81
C83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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