THE EFFECTS OF A TARGETED "EARLY BIRD" INCENTIVE STRATEGY ON RESPONSE RATES, FIELDWORK EFFORT, AND COSTS IN A NATIONAL PANEL STUDY.

ABSTRACT: Adaptive survey designs are increasingly used by survey practitioners to counteract ongoing declines in household survey response rates and manage rising fieldwork costs. This paper reports findings from an evaluation of an early-bird incentive (EBI) experiment targeting high-effort respondents who participate in the 2019 wave of the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We identified a subgroup of high-effort respondents at risk of nonresponse based on their prior wave fieldwork effort and randomized them to a treatment offering an extra time-delimited monetary incentive for completing their interview within the first month of data collection (treatment group; N = 800) or the standard study incentive (control group; N = 400). In recent waves, we have found that the costs of the

SUBMITTER: McGonagle KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10702785 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature