Exam 15: Data Collection: Types of Error and Response Rate Calculation

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Anything the researcher can do to personalize the date collection process,such as hand-address envelopes for a mail survey or use a person's name in the email salutation,will improve response rates.

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Common problems of using lists as sampling frames include

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Research evidence supports the contention that

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Which of the following are most likely to be home when an interviewer calls during a weekday?

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The potential problem(s)of personal or telephone interviews that use open-ended questions include which of the following?

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Which of the following has NOT been shown to be effective in decreasing the number of refusals?

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Which of these sampling frames is most likely to produce the largest noncoverage bias problem?

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A researcher investigating the consumption of sugar takes a random sample from the population and computes the mean sugar consumption.He repeats the procedure a number of times using the exact same procedure and finds the means obtained vary from sample to sample.This is an example of

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Low response rates may indicate

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Higher response rates usually suggest fewer problems with nonresponse bias.

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The response rate functions to

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Which of the following does NOT lead to response bias?

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Sampling errors can be decreased by

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Response error can be caused by

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Which of the following statements is TRUE?

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The ____ is used to adjust the number of refusals and not-at-homes to reflect the fact that many of them would not have qualified to participate in the survey even had we successfully contacted them and gotten them to agree to participate.

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Which method of data collection has traditionally produced the lowest response rates?

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Which of the following are office errors?

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a nonsampling error?

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Office errors tend to occur during which stages of a project?

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