Response rate in phone surveys: Experiments to test the effect of pre-visits and financial incentives

Household surveys play an important role in collecting cross-sectional information across time among population subgroups including demographics, health and nutrition risk factors and coverage of inteventions. During COVID-19 related lockdowns, phone surveys became a popular modality to collect such...

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Autores principales: Neupane, Sumanta, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Avula, Rasmi, Shapleigh, Sara, Heidkamp, Rebecca A.
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141133
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Sumario:Household surveys play an important role in collecting cross-sectional information across time among population subgroups including demographics, health and nutrition risk factors and coverage of inteventions. During COVID-19 related lockdowns, phone surveys became a popular modality to collect such information in a safe and cost-effective manner. Compared to surveys using in-person interviews, phone-based surveys have limitations of non-representativeness and non-response errors which can result in biased estimates. There are, however, ways to mitigate some of these challenges.