The Impact of Topic Interest on Mail Survey Response Behaviour

Charles Martin

Many factors are believed to effect mail survey response behaviour and therefore create both non-response and response biases.
  

The Impact of Topic Interest on Mail Survey Response Behaviour

Charles L. Martin W Frank Barton School of Business

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Non-response biases

Non-response occurs when individuals selected into the sample do not participate in the survey. A bias is created when these non-respondents' would-be responses differ from the responses of those who do participate in the survey. The magnitude of such a bias can greatly increase when survey response rates are low; hence survey researchers are justifiably concerned when studies reveal that survey response rates have steadily declined since the early 1950s (DeMaio 1980; Schlossberg 1991;...

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