Which Incentives to Increase Survey Response of Secondary School Pupils?

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Maresa Sprietsma

ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Date Written: August 29, 2016

Abstract

Increasing participation rates in pupil surveys has become an important challenge for empirical educational research. In this paper we investigate whether combining a monetary incentive with a personalised invitation to participate in a survey increases the response rate of secondary school pupils. It is found that pupils who receive a personalised invitation and a monetary incentive are not more likely to participate, nor to participate more quickly following the invitation, than those who received a nonpersonalised invitation and a monetary incentive.

Keywords: response rate, pupil survey, incentives

JEL Classification: I20, C83

Suggested Citation

Sprietsma, Maresa, Which Incentives to Increase Survey Response of Secondary School Pupils? (August 29, 2016). ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 16-071, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2866344 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2866344

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