The End of the (Research) World As We Know It? Understanding and Coping With Declining Response Rates to Mail Surveys

Stedman, Richard C.; Connelly, Nancy A.; Heberlein, Thomas A.; Decker, Daniel J.; Allred, Shorna B.

doi:10.1080/08941920.2019.1587127

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“…As mentioned earlier, the measurement of heavy drinking-both episodic and chronic-comes with a number of insurmountable problems due to its reliance on population surveys, which are plagued by inadequate sampling frames [48] and high nonrandom non-response rates [49][50][51]. The HED indicator relies entirely on these surveys.…”

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What is the best indicator of the harmful use of alcohol? A narrative review

Rehm

Crépault

Wettlaufer

et al. 2020

Drug and Alcohol Review

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Issues The monitoring of the harmful use of alcohol is a key focus of global health efforts, including the Sustainable Development Goals. The current indicator of harmful alcohol use for Sustainable Development Goals is the national adult (15+ years) alcohol per capita consumption (APC) in litres of pure alcohol. Recently, the age‐standardised prevalence of heavy episodic drinking (HED) has been advanced as an alternative indicator. Approach This narrative review is composed of a review of advantages and disadvantages of both indicators and an empirical analysis of their associations with alcohol‐attributable health harm. Key findings APC is greatly associated with harm and is available for almost all countries on a yearly basis as it is largely derived from routinely collected statistics. HED is based on responses to population surveys not routinely performed for most countries. These surveys commonly exclude heavy drinking populations (e.g. army personnel, institutionalised, homeless). Even when included within the sampling frame, heavy drinkers are less likely to participate than other groups. The questions used to measure HED are susceptible to biases due to issues with respondents' comprehension, recall and misreporting. Furthermore, in a regression analysis of 182 countries, APC was better at predicting alcohol‐attributable harm than HED. APC was also correlated with changes in the alcohol‐attributable burden of disease (from 2010 to 2016), while HED was not. Implications Based on these factors, APC was found to be the preferred indicator. Conclusions APC should be retained as the main indicator of the harmful use of alcohol.

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What is the best indicator of the harmful use of alcohol? A narrative review

Rehm

Crépault

Wettlaufer

et al. 2020

Drug and Alcohol Review

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“…Online administration is widespread in contemporary survey research [113], in part due to its convenience and relative affordability [114], but also due to consistently declining response rates to more traditional survey modes such as mail, telephone, and in-person data collection. While all survey modes could be subject to low response rates and resulting non-response bias [115,116], online vendors can usually obtain the desired number of responses using an online platform because of their large respondent pools. Additionally, high quality vendors such as YouGov utilize strategies such as quota sampling and sample weighting to ensure that a convenience (nonprobability) sample best approximates a probability sample, leading to more robust results.…”

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Public Preferences in a Shifting Energy Future: Comparing Public Views of Eight Energy Sources in North America’s Pacific Northwest

Hazboun

Boudet

2020

Energies

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The U.S. and Canada continue to face major changes in energy production. Mounting awareness of the climate crisis has placed increasing importance on developing renewable energy sources, however, advances in fossil fuel extraction technology have opened vast domestic reserves of oil and natural gas. Public preferences for energy policy play a role in determining energy futures, but researchers rarely simultaneously compare public views across multiple renewable and non-renewable energies or across country boundaries. Here, we used a 2019 online survey sample (n = 1500) to compare predictors of support for eight fuel sources for electricity generation in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington and Oregon, USA. Results indicate the highest support overall for renewables (wind, solar, wave/tidal energy, geothermal) and the lowest for fossil fuels (coal and natural gas), nuclear, and hydropower. Mixed-effects regression modeling indicates that views on climate and the balance between environment and economy were consistent predictors of support across most energy types, while political ideology was less consistent. Perceived local importance of both extractive and renewable energy industries were significant predictors of support for some, but not all, energy sources, as were education and gender. Overall, our research suggests that while divisions persist in public energy preferences for both renewable and non-renewable sources, there is the broadest support for renewable energy technologies.

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“…Grace-McCaskey et al (2019) describe two case studies of citizen science, one from the perspective of project managers and another from that of a citizen scientist, and offer eco-ethnography as a tool for designing, doing, and understanding such projects. Stedman et al (2019) explore how mail survey response rates have declined over time, and discuss solutions and alternative approaches. Finally, Graefe et al (2019) offer multiple methods that are integrate social, ecological, and economic impacts of smallscale race events that are held on public lands.…”

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Novel and Controversial Methods in the Social Sciences: Introduction to Special Issue

Floress

Sachdeva

2019

Society & Natural Resources

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The End of the (Research) World As We Know It? Understanding and Coping With Declining Response Rates to Mail Surveys

Cited by 252 publications

References 39 publications

What is the best indicator of the harmful use of alcohol? A narrative review

What is the best indicator of the harmful use of alcohol? A narrative review

Public Preferences in a Shifting Energy Future: Comparing Public Views of Eight Energy Sources in North America’s Pacific Northwest

Novel and Controversial Methods in the Social Sciences: Introduction to Special Issue

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