An experimental comparison of web-push vs. paper-only survey procedures for conducting an in-depth health survey of military spouses

摘要

BackgroundPrevious research has found that a “web-push” approach to data collection, which involves contacting people by mail to request an Internet survey response while withholding a paper response option until later in the contact process, consistently achieves lower response rates than a “paper-only” approach, whereby all respondents are contacted and requested to respond by mail.