INCREASING RESPONSE RATES IN COMMUNITY-HEALTH SURVEYS ADMINISTERED BY TELEPHONE
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 80 (1), 67-70
Abstract
This paper reports the effects of two methods used to increase response rates in a community health survey administered by telephone. Converting refusals resulted in an increase of 3.7% in the final response rate, while the investigation and identification of indeterminate telephone numbers increased the response rate by an additional 6.1%. Together, these methods resulted in an increase of 9.8%, from an initial response rate of 70.1% to a final lower-bound response rate of 79.9%. The use of these methods helped to reduce non-response bias at a minimal cost.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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