POQ Special Issues
Web Survey Methods - 2008 Special Issue
The latest special issue of POQ, edited by Mick P. Couper and Peter V. Miller, explores some of the many ways that the Internet can be used--whether alone or in combination with other methods--to conduct surveys.
Have Web surveys lived up the hope and expectations of some, or the fears of others? Some claimed that Web surveys would replace other modes of data collection (especially telephone surveys); others saw Web surveys contributing to the disintegration or dilution--if not total demise--of the survey enterprise. Neither of these extremes has come to pass. Web surveys, like other methods of survey data collection, have strengths and weaknesses. Much of the research over the past several years has focused on identifying these strengths and weaknesses and finding ways to overcome the former and exploit the latter. The papers in this special issue continue the trend.
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Table of Contents
Mick P. Couper and Peter V. Miller
Web Survey Methods: Introduction
Dirk Heerwegh and Geert Loosveldt
Face-to-Face versus Web Surveying in a High-Internet-Coverage Population: Differences in Response Quality
Frauke Kreuter, Stanley Presser, and Roger Tourangeau
Social Desirability Bias in CATI, IVR, and Web Surveys: The Effects of Mode and Question Sensitivity
Adeline Delavande and Susann Rohwedder
Eliciting Subjective Probabilities in Internet Surveys
Mirta Galesic, Roger Tourangeau, Mick P. Couper, and Frederick G. Conrad
Eye-Tracking Data: New Insights on Response Order Effects and Other Cognitive Shortcuts in Survey Responding
Neil Malhotra
Completion Time and Response Order Effects in Web Surveys
Jeremy N. Bailenson, Shanto Iyengar, Nick Yee, and Nathan A. Collins
Facial Similarity between Voters and Candidates Causes Influence
Bryan D. Rookey, Steve Hanway, and Don A. Dillman
Does a Probability-Based Household Panel Benefit from Assignment to Postal Response as an Alternative to Internet-Only?
Vera Toepoel, Marcel Das, and Arthur Van Soest
Effects of Design in Web Surveys: Comparing Trained and Fresh Respondents
Mario Callegaro and Charles DiSogra
Computing Response Metrics for Online Panels
Cell Phone Numbers and Telephone Surveying in the U.S. - 2007 Special Issue
This special issue of POQ, edited by Paul J. Lavrakas, looks into the growing number of Americans who only use cell phones and the effect of this trend on surveying. Articles included in this free-access issue address topics such as the possible future inaccuracy of surveys using only landlines, the effect of the rising percentage of cell-only households on surveys, and the decline in younger respondents in landline-only surveys.
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Nonresponse Bias in Household Surveys - 2006 Special Issue
This special issue of POQ, edited by Eleanor Singer, focuses on issues that are currently occupying center stage among survey researchers. As response rates to surveys continue to decline, questions about the impact of such a decline on survey estimates assume increasing importance. The issue’s lead article takes a close look at the relationship between nonresponse rates and nonresponse bias, concluding that the rate of nonresponse alone is not a good predictor of nonresponse bias. Instead, the article suggests various ways in which nonresponse can lead to biased survey estimates and offers practical suggestions for coping with them.
Nonresponse has preoccupied survey researchers for at least 15 years. This issue of POQ, which presents the most up-to-date theory and research relevant to the topic, is essential for survey practitioners and survey methodologists.
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