Adaptive Mixed-Mode Survey Designs

Lower data collection costs make web surveys a promising alternative to conventional face-to-face and telephone surveys. A transition to the new mode has already been widely initiated in commercial research, but web surveys remains limited in academic and official research projects that typically require probability samples and high response rates. Various design approaches for coping with the problems of sampling frames, incomplete Internet use, and nonresponse in web surveys have been proposed. Mixed-mode designs and incentives are two common strategies to reach Internet non-users and increase the response rates in web surveys. However, such survey designs can substantially increase the costs, the complexity of administration and the possibility of uncontrolled measurement effects. This paper presents and demonstrates an approach to the evaluation of various survey designs with simultaneous consideration of the errors and costs. It focuses on the designs involving the web mode and discusses their potential to replace traditional modes for probability surveys of the general population. The main idea of this approach is that part of the cost savings enabled by the web mode can be allocated to incentives and complementary survey modes to compensate for the Internet non-coverage and the higher nonresponse. The described approach is demonstrated in an experimental case study that compares the performance of mixed-mode designs with the web mode and prepaid cash incentive with that of an official survey conducted using the face-to-face and telephone modes. The results show that the mixed-mode designs with the web mode and incentives can greatly increase the response rate, which even surpasses that of the conventional survey modes, but still offer substantial cost savings. However, the results also show that higher response rate does not necessary translate to higher data quality, especially when the main aim is to obtain estimates that are highly comparable with those of the reference survey.

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Mode Equivalence of Health Indicators Between Data Collection Modes and Mixed-Mode Survey Designs in Population-Based Health Interview Surveys for Children and Adolescents: Methodological Study

10.2196/preprints.7802 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Elvira Mauz ◽

Robert Hoffmann ◽

Robin Houben ◽

Laura Krause ◽

Panagiotis Kamtsiuris ◽

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Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Mixed Mode ◽

Health Indicators ◽

Population Based ◽

Methodological Study ◽

Health Interview ◽

Survey Designs

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The modality effect as an interaction between the auditory and visual systems in a mixed mode situation.

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e432362004-001 ◽

1982 ◽

Author(s):

Kjell Ohlsson ◽

Jerker Roennberg

Keyword(s):

Mixed Mode ◽

Modality Effect ◽

Visual Systems

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“To Corrupt a Man in the Midst of a Verse”: Ben Jonson and the Prose of the World

Ben Jonson Journal ◽

10.3366/bjj.2017.0179 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 46-72

Author(s):

Jacob Tootalian

Keyword(s):

Mixed Mode ◽

Ben Jonson ◽

Digital Analysis ◽

Interactive Engagement ◽

Sentence Level ◽

Linguistic Patterns ◽

The World ◽

Selection Of ◽

Bartholomew Fair

Ben Jonson's early plays show a marked interest in prose as a counterpoint to the blank verse norm of the Renaissance stage. This essay presents a digital analysis of Jonson's early mixed-mode plays and his two later full-prose comedies. It examines this selection of the Jonsonian corpus using DocuScope, a piece of software that catalogs sentence-level features of texts according to a series of rhetorical categories, highlighting the distinctive linguistic patterns associated with Jonson's verse and prose. Verse tends to employ abstract, morally and emotionally charged language, while prose is more often characterized by expressions that are socially explicit, interrogative, and interactive. In the satirical economy of these plays, Jonson's characters usually adopt verse when they articulate censorious judgements, descending into prose when they wade into the intractable banter of the vicious world. Surprisingly, the prosaic signature that Jonson fashioned in his earlier drama persisted in the two later full-prose comedies. The essay presents readings of Every Man Out of his Humour and Bartholomew Fair, illustrating how the tension between verse and prose that motivated the satirical dynamics of the mixed-mode plays was released in the full-prose comedies. Jonson's final experiments with theatrical prose dramatize the exhaustion of the satirical impulse by submerging his characters almost entirely in the prosaic world of interactive engagement.

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