The authors acknowledge the contributions of Professor Sandra Torres (Uppsala University) for her insightful comments, and PhD student Chiara Respi (University of Milano-Bicocca) for independently coding a random subset of manuscripts included in the systematic review. The research results were achieved as part of Gregor Čehovin's Young Researcher fellowship, financed from the national budget by a contract between the Slovenian Research Agency and the
Nonresponse is a fundamental issue in survey research, due to the trend of declining response rates across survey modes. This issue is particularly serious for web surveys: A recent meta-analysis found that unit nonresponse in web surveys is, on average, higher by 12 percentage points than in other modes ( Daikeler et al., 2020 ). Although the issue of unit nonresponse in web and other survey modes has been investigated in several meta-analyses, item nonresponse has not been examined meta-analytically, a gap addressed by this paper. Are web surveys at a disadvantage compared to other survey modes in terms of item nonresponse as well? To address this question, 13 eligible experimental manuscripts reporting 23 effect sizes were identified in a comprehensive literature search. Meta-analytic findings showed that there was no statistically significant difference in the average item nonresponse rate in web versus other survey modes. However, six moderator variables were found to statistically significantly affect the relation between the survey mode and the item nonresponse rate, namely, the target population, the number of contacts, the mode to which the web survey mode was compared, the survey sponsor, the age of the survey, and the baseline item nonresponse rate of the compared mode. The main practical implication is that while web and other survey modes differ in terms of unit nonresponse (on average), item nonresponse rates in web surveys are similar compared to other modes.
V sodobnem družboslovnem raziskovanju se anketiranje izvaja predvsem prek spleta. Pri tem se zara-di visokih stroškov rekrutiranja enot v vzorec vse pogoste-je uporabljajo spletni paneli. Gre za velike baze potenci-alnih anketirancev, ki so podali soglasje, da za določeno nagrado sodelujejo v različnih spletnih anketah. Večina tržnih ter določeni delež raziskav javnega sektorja sta že prešla na neverjetnostne spletne panele, ki so bistve-no cenejši od anket na osnovi verjetnostnih vzorcev. Te pa na drugi strani zagotavljajo večjo točnost anketnih ocen. Članek pregleda evalvacije neverjetnostnih splet-nih panelov, ilustrira tipične težave, ki pri tem nastajajo, ter predstavi smernice za presojo o njihovi uporabi.Ključni pojmi: spletne ankete, spletni paneli, verjetno-stno vzorčenje, neverjetnostno vzorčenje, točnost, pri-stranskost
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