Moving towards a single-frame cell phone design in random digit dialing surveys: considerations from a French general population health survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over the last two decades, telephone surveys based on random digit dialing have developed considerably. At the same time, however, the proportion of the population with a cell phone has increased, whereas landline frame coverage has declined, thus raising the possibility of discontinuing landline phone surveys. This paper aims to assess the impact of using a single-frame (SF) cell phone design instead of a dual-frame (DF) design with landlines and cell phones in the context of repeated health surveillance surveys in the general population. We analyze data from a random digit dialing health survey of the French population and assess differences between the DF and the counterfactual SF design that excludes the landline phone sample from the DF design. We evaluate the quali

SUBMITTER: Soullier N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8978421 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature