scholarly journals Response trends in a national random digit dial survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Robert Tortora
Keyword(s):  
Response Rate ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Random Digit Dial ◽  
Over Time

This paper reviews response trends over 24 consecutive quarters of a National Random Digit Dial telephone survey. Trends for response rates and refusal rates are studied as well as the components of response rate, namely, contact, cooperation and completion rates. In addition other rates, including answering machine, busy and no answer are studied. While refusal rates declined over the six year period, contact and cooperation rates significantly declined causing response rates to decline. Answering machine rates and busy rates also showed a significant increase over time. Finally, correlation’s among the variables of interest are presented. The response rate is negatively correlated with the busy rate, the answering machine rate and the no answer rate. Implications of the above trends are discussed.

scholarly journals Editors and Researchers Beware: Calculating Response Rates in Random Digit Dial Health Surveys

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (2pt1) ◽  
pp. 665-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant R. Martsolf ◽  
Robert E. Schofield ◽  
David R. Johnson ◽  
Dennis P. Scanlon
Keyword(s):  
Health Surveys ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Random Digit Dial

Parents’ Retrospective Reports of Youth Psychological Responses to the Sniper Attacks in the Washington, DC, Area

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon R. Self-Brown ◽  
Greta M. Massetti ◽  
Jieru Chen ◽  
Jeffrey Schulden
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Retrospective Reports ◽  
Random Digit Dial ◽  
History Of

A random-digit-dial telephone survey was conducted in May 2003, with 355 parents of children ages 2–17 years old, living in Washington, DC, or in the two surrounding counties during the October 2002 sniper shootings, to examine parent retrospective reports of child event-related psychological distress. An estimated 32% of parents reported that children experienced at least one psychological distress symptom related to sniper shootings. Older children, females, children with a history of trauma exposure prior to sniper attacks, children whose parents reported routine disruption as the result of attacks, children whose parents perceived them as at great risk for harm from sniper attacks, and those children whose parents reported more traumatic stress symptoms in response to attacks were at greatest risk for reported psychological distress.

Facilitating Adolescent Smoking: Who Provides the Cigarettes?

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 355-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha M. White ◽  
Elizabeth A. Gilpin ◽  
Sherry L. Emery ◽  
John P. Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Response Rate ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Adolescent Smoking ◽  
Adolescent Smokers ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Peer Approval

Purpose. Most adolescent smokers obtain cigarettes through social sources. We examine the extent to which cigarettes are provided by facilitators of legal age to purchase cigarettes. Design. Analyses of data from the 1999 California Tobacco Survey, a large population-based, random-digit–dialed telephone survey, are reported. Setting. California. Subjects. Data were from a subset of 1239 adolescent (12–17 years) respondents who reported ever having smoked a cigarette. The response rate for all adolescents selected for interview was 75.5%. Measures. We describe cigarette providers to adolescents in social (cigarettes given to the adolescent) and economic (someone else buys cigarettes for the adolescent) transactions by the reported facilitator's age. Results. Of the 82.2% ± 2.6% of adolescents who had ever smoked who usually obtained cigarettes from others, 21.6% ± 2.5% used economic transactions; most (60.6% ± 3.4%) were given cigarettes. The majority (73.3% ± 3.6%) of those relying on social sources were given cigarettes by someone <18 years of age; very few were given cigarettes by someone 21+ years old. Most (90.4% ± 2.0%) usually given cigarettes reported friends as facilitators. Of those who relied on economic transactions, 56.1% ± 6.6% reported facilitators who were 18- to 20-year-olds, another 24.7% ±6.3% had suppliers ≥21 years of age. Altogether, 80.8% ± 5.8% of facilitators in economic transactions were ≥18 years of age. Conclusions. Until peer approval of smoking and sharing cigarettes and adult facilitation of adolescent smoking is reduced, it will be difficult to significantly reduce adolescents' access to cigarettes.

Understanding Response Rates in Random Digit Dial Surveys

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Dillon ◽  
Steven Glazerman ◽  
Mike Rosenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Response Rates ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Random Digit Dial

More on the Prediction of Mail Survey Response Rates

1982 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Parasuraman
Keyword(s):  
Additional Data ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Mail Survey ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Survey Response ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Specific Time ◽  
Generalized Model ◽  
Over Time

The author discusses some omissions in, and limitations of, recent efforts to model mail survey returns over time. Additional data are analyzed to develop a generalized model of response rate over time, and a practical approach is proposed for estimating mailing requirements for surveys that have specific time deadlines and response requirements.

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