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An incentives experiment in the u.s. Consumer expenditure quarterly survey december 2006.
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Mcgrath, David E. |
| Abstract | Response rates to the Consumer Expenditures Quarterly (CEQ) Survey fell from 86 percent in 1990 to 76 percent by 2004. To reduce the current downward trend in CEQ response rates, the Bureau of Labor Statistics introduced an incentives experiment in November, 2005. The goal was to increase response rates by offering respondents a pre-paid monetary incentive that is unconditional on response to the survey. We mailed debit-card incentives along with the survey’s advance letter prior to contacting the potential survey respondent for the Wave 1 interview. The experimental design contrasts a control group receiving no incentive with groups that receive either $20 or $40 debit cards. In this paper, we show the design of the incentives experiment, provide preliminary results on the effects of the incentives on response rates, and |
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| Subject Keyword | Incentive Experiment Response Rate Current Downward Trend Preliminary Result Ceq Response Rate Consumer Expenditure Quarterly Potential Survey Respondent Experimental Design Advance Letter Debit-card Incentive Pre-paid Monetary Incentive Labor Statistic $40 Debit Card Control Group |
| Content Type | Text |
