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Enhancing Participation in Probability-Based Online Panels: Two Incentive Experiments and Their Effects on Response and Panel Recruitment
- Source :
- Social Science Computer Review
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This article investigates how mail-based online panel recruitment can be facilitated through incentives. The analysis relies on two incentive experiments and their effects on panel recruitment, and the intermediate participation in the recruitment survey. The experiments were implemented in the context of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study and encompass two samples of randomly sampled persons. Tested incentives include a conditional lottery, conditional monetary incentives, and the combination of unconditional money-in-hand with conditional monetary incentives. For an encompassing evaluation of the link between incentives and panel recruitment, the article further assesses the incentives’ implications for demographic composition and panel recruitment unit costs. Multivariate analysis indicates that low combined incentives (€5/€5) or, where unconditional disbursement is unfeasible, high conditional incentives (€20) are most effective in enhancing panel participation. In terms of demographic bias, low combined incentives (€5/€5) and €10 conditional incentives are the favored options. The budget options from the perspective of panel recruitment include the lottery and the €10 conditional incentive which break-even at net sample sizes of 1000.
- Subjects :
- SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Methodology
Online-Befragung
Umfrageforschung
Library and Information Sciences
incentive system
SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology
Microeconomics
generous lottery
Sociologie & sciences sociales [H10] [Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie]
survey research
mobile populations
Soziologie, Sozialwissenschaften
combined incentives
Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Teilnehmer
recruitment costs
Motivation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
demographic bias
General Social Sciences
money-in-hand
Probability-based panel recruitment
prepaid cash
Computer Science Applications
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Incentive
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies
Sociology & social sciences [H10] [Social & behavioral sciences, psychology]
incentive experiment
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences
ddc:300
Panel
online survey
SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences
Business
Law
participant
probability-based panel recruitment
Anreizsystem
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Social Science Computer Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3e383099390aeb686f40a7268b08bf7c