Targeted response inducement strategies for self-completion surveys with address-based sample frames
Targeted response inducement strategies have become increasingly popular in recent years. A number of studies have shown that such strategies can be a cost-effective way to bring about a useful improvement in response rate and/or sample balance. However, the design and implementation of targeted strategies depends on prior information about sample members, for example from an informative sampling frame, to identify groups to target. Furthermore, many of the successful implementations of targeted methods have been on interviewer-administered surveys, where the interviewers can be the conduit of the targeted procedures. The design of targeted procedures is therefore particularly challenging in the …

