scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

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

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This article used mail surveys for social science research and found that properly conducted, they can gather representative data about a population that provides important generalizations about that popula cation about that population.
Abstract
Mail surveys have long been a staple of social science research. Properly conducted, they can gather representative data about a population that provides important generalizations about that popula...

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural America.

TL;DR: The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural populations have been severe, with significant negative impacts on unemployment, overall life satisfaction, mental health, and economic outlook, and these impacts have been generally consistent across age, ethnicity, education, and sex.
Journal ArticleDOI

The changing sociocultural context of wildlife conservation.

TL;DR: A multilevel model of value shift is introduced to describe the changing social context of wildlife conservation and contend that agencies will need to embrace new strategies to engage and represent a growing segment of the public with mutualism values.
Journal ArticleDOI

The elusiveness of representativeness in general population surveys for alcohol.

TL;DR: The future of survey will need to include statistical modelling, adding data from external sources for validation and combining data from various types of surveys.
Journal ArticleDOI

Social value shift in favour of biodiversity conservation in the United States

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed long-term, large-scale trend data regarding wildlife values in the United States, collected through a 19-state survey in 2004 (n = 12,673 and n = 20,674).
Journal ArticleDOI

Digital archives, big data and image-based culturomics for social impact assessment: Opportunities and challenges

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe necessary advances in machine learning, image digitization, and data aggregation and visualization techniques, as well as ways to ensure that such tools are carefully tested, applied and interpreted.
References
More filters
Book

Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior

TL;DR: This chapter discusses the development of Causality Orientations Theory, a theory of personality Influences on Motivation, and its application in information-Processing Theories.
Journal ArticleDOI

The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

TL;DR: Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as mentioned in this paper maintains that an understanding of human motivation requires a consideration of innate psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness, emphasizing that needs specify the necessary conditions for psychological growth, integrity, and well-being.
Book

The practice of social research

Earl Babbie
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the construction of Inquiry, the science of inquiry, and the role of data in the design of research.
Journal ArticleDOI

Estimating Nonresponse Bias in Mail Surveys

TL;DR: This article used subjective estimates and extrapolations in an analysis of mail survey data from published studies for estimates of the magnitude of bias and found that the use of extrapolation led to substantial improvements over a strategy of not using extrapolation.
Related Papers (5)