Mailed Questionnaire Surveys and the Reluctant Respondent: An Empirical Examination of Differences Between Early and Late Respondents

Wellman, J. Douglas; Hawk, E. G.; Roggenbuck, Joseph W.; Buhyoff, G. J.

doi:10.1080/00222216.1980.11969435

Cited by 49 publications

(27 citation statements)

References 11 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This response rate was higher than similar surveys concerning pesticide use (e.g., Roden and Surgeoner 1984;Wellman et al 1980). Wellman et al (1 980) and Hammitt and Macdonald (1 982) showed that follow-up surveys of non-respondents resulted in no or only small changes in results when the initial delivery obtained a return rate of 30% or higher.…”

Section: General Resultsmentioning

confidence: 49%

A survey on attitudes toward control of forest insects

Macdonald¹,

McKenney²,

Nealis³

1998

The Forestry Chronicle

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper reports a survey of residents of five communities in Ontario about their attitudes to the nature and control of infestations by two forest insect pests; the gypsy moth and the jack pine budworm. The survey results indicate that people feel they are generally familiar with both insects, but gypsy moth is more widely known. Despite the fact that respondents had different experiences with infestations, these differences did not noticeably influence attitudes towards control. Most respondents felt some control action was desirable. A biological pesticide was consistently preferred across all communities, however, respondents from communities affected by gypsy moth were more likely to prefer letting an infestation run its course than respondents from communities affected by jack pine budwom. In contrast, respondents from jack pine budworm communities were more likely to favour any type of pesticide-biological or chemical -than were respondents from gypsy moth communities. Despite widespread preference for the use of Bt, a biological pesticide, people were not willing to pay directly for this or any other management approach as they felt that responsibility for control rested elsewhere. An important underlying message is that if resource managers want the public to differentiate pest management options more critically, information programs likely need to more heavily stress the ecological and economic differences between insects.

show abstract

Section: General Resultsmentioning

confidence: 49%

A survey on attitudes toward control of forest insects

Macdonald¹,

McKenney²,

Nealis³

1998

The Forestry Chronicle

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Do more educated people also reply faster, and with higher-quality responses? Green (1991) and Wellman, Hawk, Roggenbuck, and Buhyoff (1980) found no significant relationship between education and response speed as assessed by wave of response; Baur (1947), Dalecki, Ilvento, and Moore (19881, Donald (19601, Finn, Wang, and Lamb (1983) did, with the better-educated replying more quickly. The Green (1991) study had a restricted range of education; the Wellman et al (1980) study found a significant effect when date of return rather than wave was the dependent variable.…”

Section: Educationmentioning

confidence: 92%

Sociodemographic factors and mail survey response

Green

1996

Psychol. Mark.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…There should be an expectation that authors should provide sufficient 12 information about the eligible and ineligible study population, how they were identified and contacted, sampling procedures, and the participation and declining rates. Researchers should also check for differences between early, late and non-respondents (Wellman et al, 1980;Green, 1991;Paganini-Hill et al, 1993). By so doing, editors, reviewers and readers will be able to make an informed judgment about the adequacy of the sampling procedures and the acceptability of the reported RR.…”

Section: A Critical Appraisal Of Reporting Procedures and Utility Of Rrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Response Rates in Business and Management Research: An Overview of Current Practice and Suggestions for Future Direction

Mellahi

Harris

2015

British J of Management

183

104

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

(2016) Response rates in business and management research : an overview of current practice and suggestions for future directions. British Journal of Management, 27 (2). pp. 426-437. Permanent WRAP URL:http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/73828 Copyright and reuse:The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes this work by researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions. Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. Publisher's statement:"This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mellahi, Kamel and Harris, Lloyd C.. (2016) Response rates in business and management research : an overview of current practice and suggestions for future directions. British Journal of Management, 27 (2). pp. 426-437., which has been published in final form http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12154 . This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving." A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or, version of record, if you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the 'permanent WRAP URL' above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. RESPONSE RATES IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT PRACTICE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE DIRECTIONS Kamel Mellahi And Lloyd Harris IntroductionSurvey methods are widely used in business and management research. Their advantages are well known; they can reach a large number of the target population at relatively low cost in money, time and effort. Their disadvantages are also well known and well documented. One of their key disadvantages, examined in this paper, is the low response rates (henceforth RR).Our review of the burgeoning literature on the use of survey methods in business and management research reveals that the issue of RR is a contentious one (Malhotra and Grover 1998;Roth and BeVier, 1998; Baruch, 1999;Rungtusanatham et al., 2003; Baruch and Holom, 2008). On the one hand, RR is an important dimension in the assessment of the soundness of a study using a survey method. A recent survey of editors of journals across the social sciences field revealed that about 90% of editors reported that RR is somewhat or very important criteria in publication decision i (Carley-Baxter et al., 2013). It is "often taken to be the primary measure of quality when assessing the v...

show abstract

Mailed Questionnaire Surveys and the Reluctant Respondent: An Empirical Examination of Differences Between Early and Late Respondents

Cited by 49 publications

References 11 publications

A survey on attitudes toward control of forest insects

A survey on attitudes toward control of forest insects

Sociodemographic factors and mail survey response

Response Rates in Business and Management Research: An Overview of Current Practice and Suggestions for Future Direction

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About