How Different Mixed-Mode Data Collection Approaches Impact Response Rates and Provision of Biomeasure Samples.

ABSTRACT: Social surveys can be enriched with the collection of objective health measures, allowing new types of research in both health and social sciences. We experimentally tested three alternative designs for collecting survey responses and biomeasures within a longitudinal survey. In the nurse-administered design, a nurse conducts the survey and collects biomeasures in person. In the interviewer-first design, an interviewer initially attempts to carry out the survey in person, collects a subset of biomeasures, and then leaves a further biomeasure sample collection kit with the respondent. The web-first design invites respondents to complete the survey in web mode, and a biomeasure sample collection kit is sent after they do so. Nonrespondents to their initial mode are followed up with in an alt

SUBMITTER: Al Baghal T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12369939 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature