There has been an interesting debate in the New England Journal of Medicine
on paying respondents. See: Dickert N, Grady C. What's the price of a
research subject: Approaches to payment for research participation. NEJM
1999; 341: 198-203 as well as the letters in reply a few months later.
Edwin R. van Teijlingen
Department of Public Health & Dugald Baird Centre for Research on
Women's Health
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB25 2ZD
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jane
Sandall
Sent: 03 July 2000 14:57
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Subject: incentives in surveys
This may be of interest to some people.
>From The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics web
site,
http://members.aol.com/copafs/
lists a report "Providing Incentives to Survey Respondents: Final
Report",
the results of a symposium on whether there should be further
development
of guidelines for providing incentives to respondents; and what evidence
exists concerning negative and positive impacts of incentives on survey
response and bias, and what can be done in designing surveys to minimize
negative effects while preserving positive effects. One of the
presymposium papers is a literature review about incentives.
This symposium was in 1992. I'm wondering two things:
1. Has there been any more recent guidelines from the US Federal
Government?
2. Are there any more recent literature reviews about the effects of
incentives?
Thanks
Gene Shackman, Ph.D.
NYS DOH - Nutrition
150 Broadway, FL6 West, Albany NY 12204
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