Survey Respondent Seminar To Be Held in DC

摘要

A seminar called Survey Respondent Incentives: Research and Practice, hosted by the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, will be held March 10, 2008, at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC. Incentive payments to survey respondents have been used for many years to improve response rates. Considerable evidence supports the value of monetary incentives to increase cooperation and improve the speed and quality of response in a range of data-collection efforts. In 1992, a symposium on providing incentives to survey respondents, hosted by the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, brought together a spectrum of survey research professionals from government, business, academia, and research organizations to focus on these issues in detail-to review the "state of the art.". Since that time, the use of respondent incentives in survey practice has increased dramatically across all sectors, but there has been no professional forum. The purpose of the proposed seminar is to fill that void.