A Quantitative Review of Research Design Effects on Response Rates to Questionnaires
Journal of Marketing ResearchPublished 1 February 1983
Julie Yu, Helen Cooper
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A comprehensive literature review of techniques used to increase response rates to questionnaires was conducted. Conclusions were based on arithmetic combination of 497 response rates found in 93 j...
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