The relationship between response rate and effect size in occupational health psychology research.
- 1 April 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
- Vol. 6 (2), 160-163
- https://doi.org/10.1037/1076-8998.6.2.160
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between response rate and effect size in self-report survey research. The correlation between response rate and effect size was calculated for 4 variable combinations, and the results were combined using meta-analytic procedures. The correlation of response rate and effect size was not significant for any individual sample. The average correlation between response rate and effect size was -.15, with a nonsignificant corrected variance across studies of .02. These results suggest only a small relationship between the response rate of a survey and the reported effect size between variables.Keywords
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