The social context of survey interviews is likely to be important in survey measurement in
developing countries, where respondents expect to benefit from participation. In the recent …

Groves (2007) warns that the “[b] lind pursuit of high response rates in probability samples is
unwise”(p. 668) because it may have the unintended consequence of actually increasing …

Accurate estimates of men's and women's employment are necessary for understanding
sources of productivity and growth and designing well-targeted, gender-sensitive labour …

It is increasingly clear (eg, Curtin et al. 2000; Groves 2006; Keeter et al. 2000) that
nonresponse rates are poor indicators of nonresponse error of survey estimates. However …

BACKGROUND African censuses and surveys remain dependent on interviewers for data
collection. Data quality is assured through training and supervision. Many survey concepts …

The article reports that the reliability and validity of survey estimates depends on minimizing
potential data biases. Nonresponse error, which is a function of both the level of …

Interviewers make an important contribution to the quality of data collected through
interviewer-administered questionnaires. However, once this data has been collected not …

A growing body of literature in low-and middle-income countries is challenging the long-held
assumption that the respondent and interviewer should be strangers. We conducted a …

Many survey organisations focus on the response rate as being the quality indicator for the
impact of non-response bias. As a consequence, they implement a variety of measures to …

To increase response rates, survey researchers intensify their efforts to bring sampled
persons into the respondent pool. The question is whether or not ''reluctant''survey …