Which Incentives to Increase Survey Response of Secondary School Pupils?
17 Pages Posted: 8 Nov 2016
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
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