The latest issue of the Survey Methods Centre Newsletter (volume 18, number
2) has just been published. Subscribers should have received their copy in
the last few days.
This issue is on the topic of "Respondent Incentives in Surveys". Main
articles are as follows:
- The Use of Respondent Incentives in Surveys - Gerry Nicolaas and Peter
Lynn, SCPR;
- The Effects of Incentives on Response Rates in Interviewer-Mediated
Surveys - Eleanor Singer, University of Michigan;
- An Experiment with Incentives on the British Social Attitudes Survey -
Peter Lynn, Katarina Thomson and Lindsay Brook, SCPR;
- Two Experiments with Incentives on Mail Surveys in Germany - Janet
Harkness and Peter Mohler, ZUMA.
In addition, the newsletter carries its usual summary of survey
methodological papers recently published in refereed journals, plus book
reviews and announcements of forthcoming conferences, seminars and courses.
The Newsletter is published by the Survey Methods Centre at SCPR.
Individual issues cost 7 pounds including postage (9 pounds outside of EU);
an annual subscription (3 issues) costs 20 pounds (25 pounds outside EU).
Available from: Survey Methods Centre Administrator, SCPR, 35 Northampton
Square, London EC1V 0AX, UK; Telephone 0171 250 1866; Fax 0171 250 1524;
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