The Survey Geek

Tag: Web Panels

  • Let’s get on with it

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    I spent some time over the weekend putting the finishing touches on a presentation for later this week in Washington at a workshop being put on by the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council. The workshop is part of a larger effort to develop a new agenda for research into social science…

  • Getting straight on response rates

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    AAPOR's Standard Definitions: Final Dispositions of Case Codes and Outcome Rates for Surveys has long been the bible for survey researchers interested in systematically tracking response and nonresponse in surveys and summarizing those outcomes in standardized ways that help us judge the strengths and weaknesses of survey results. The first edition, published in 1998, built…

  • Six of one . . .

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    We do a large amount of survey work with physicians and virtually all of it relies on online panels. Not that long ago we had a client who insisted on our using mail to recruit physicians to Web surveys, partially on the premise that it would produce a more representative sample. That client has since…

  • Let’s ban the R word

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    While working on a paper over the weekend it suddenly hit me that "necessary but not sufficient" is the perfect way to describe the whole array of techniques that have emerged over the last few years in the name of improving panel data quality.  Not to be confused with the Goldratt "business novel" (now there's…

  • Hoisted on their own petard

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    The current issue of Inside Research is out and it includes the mid-year update on online spending. Despite the headline that characterizes the growth as "soft" the numbers show the MR companies reporting to IR (and mine is one) estimating that their 2010 revenues from online will be around $2.2 billion, a 12 percent increase…

  • Plus ca change

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    In the current issue of Research Business Report Bob Lederer muses on one of his favorite topics, online panel quality, and, at the risk of oversimplifying, seems to say that after lots of industry-wide soul searching it's now time for some action. He concludes by saying, "I suspect that 2010 will be all about tests…

  • Practice makes perfect

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    This is something of an unplanned follow-up to my last post.  While catching up on my reading I came across an interesting article in the winter issue of POQ by LinChiat Chang and Jon Krosnick reporting on a neat little study that compares responses from a telephone RDD sample, an online panel recruited by RDD…

  • What about B2B?

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    Virtually all of the chatter across the industry these last three years or so about panel data quality has been focused on consumer sample.  Those of us who don't do a whole lot of online consumer work have now begun to wonder, what about B2B?  Is there a data quality problem there as well and,…

  • This is worth your time

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    One of the links over on the right is to an online journal called Survey Practice.  Rather than me trying to describe their editorial focus and policy it's probably best to check it out firsthand here.  I point all of this out to you because the current issue is focused on nonprobability sampling and while…

  • Finally, the real issue?

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    This month's Research Business Report has two very interesting and related pieces. In one the editor takes the ARF ORQC to task for their somewhat languid reporting on the results of their Foundations of Quality initiative as well as the usefulness of their findings, or at least those findings that have been released to date.…