Do web surveys still yield lower response rates compared with other survey modes? To
answer this question, we replicated and extended a meta-analysis done in 2008 which …

A major challenge in web-based cross-cultural data collection is varying response rates,
which can result in low data quality and non-response bias. Country-specific factors such as …

Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this
fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in people's lives …

Does testosterone increase the tendency to engage in self-employment? The results
presented to date have been mixed. Using three different studies, we provide additional …

This paper studies the effect of the most extensive area based regeneration policy in
Northern Ireland–Neighbourhood Renewal (NR)–on fuel poverty using a natural experiment …

Face-to-face (F2F) interviews produce population estimates that are widely regarded as the
'gold standard'in social research. Response rates tend to be higher with face-to-face …

This chapter introduces a general framework that uses a within‐persons experimental
design but deals with two of the three problems with previous approaches: the assumption of …

Young adults are generally hard to survey, presenting researchers with numerous
difficulties. They are hard to locate and contact due to high mobility. They are hard to …

The exercise of quantifying the energy consumption data assembled through household
surveys, either by the recall-based approach or the meter-based approach, remains a …

Adaptive survey designs can be used to allocate sample elements to alternative data
collection protocols in order to achieve a desired balance between some quality measure …