Understanding Response Rates in Random Digit Dial Surveys

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Dillon ◽  
Steven Glazerman ◽  
Mike Rosenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Response Rates ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Random Digit Dial

scholarly journals Editors and Researchers Beware: Calculating Response Rates in Random Digit Dial Health Surveys

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (2pt1) ◽  
pp. 665-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant R. Martsolf ◽  
Robert E. Schofield ◽  
David R. Johnson ◽  
Dennis P. Scanlon
Keyword(s):  
Health Surveys ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Random Digit Dial

scholarly journals Response trends in a national random digit dial survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Robert Tortora
Keyword(s):  
Response Rate ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Random Digit Dial ◽  
Over Time

This paper reviews response trends over 24 consecutive quarters of a National Random Digit Dial telephone survey. Trends for response rates and refusal rates are studied as well as the components of response rate, namely, contact, cooperation and completion rates. In addition other rates, including answering machine, busy and no answer are studied. While refusal rates declined over the six year period, contact and cooperation rates significantly declined causing response rates to decline. Answering machine rates and busy rates also showed a significant increase over time. Finally, correlation’s among the variables of interest are presented. The response rate is negatively correlated with the busy rate, the answering machine rate and the no answer rate. Implications of the above trends are discussed.

scholarly journals Gender Differences in Cancer Screening Beliefs, Behaviors, and Willingness to Participate

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna L. Davis ◽  
Kyrel L. Buchanan ◽  
Ralph V. Katz ◽  
B. Lee Green
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
New York ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Random Digit Dial ◽  
Logistic Regressions

Men have higher cancer mortality rates for all sites combined compared with women. Cancer screening (CS) participation is important for the early detection of cancer. This study explores gender differences in CS beliefs, behaviors, and willingness to participate. The data were collected from a stratified, random-digit dial survey of adults living in New York, Maryland, and Puerto Rico. Chi-square tests and logistic regressions were computed to analyze gender associations among CS beliefs, behaviors, and willingness variables. Men and women believed that CSs were effective, though a higher percentage of men had never had a past CS. Men were less willing to participate in a CS at the present time and in a skin cancer exam; however, when given descriptions of screening conditions, men indicated more willingness to participate. These gender differences highlight the need for health professionals to examine their efforts in providing enhanced CS promotion and education among men.

Referral Protocols for Achieving Gender Representation in Random Digit Dial Phone Surveys

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Glazerman ◽  
Michael Rosenbaum ◽  
Yue Wu ◽  
Valerie Mueller ◽  
Karen Grepin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Representation ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Random Digit Dial

Parents’ Retrospective Reports of Youth Psychological Responses to the Sniper Attacks in the Washington, DC, Area

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon R. Self-Brown ◽  
Greta M. Massetti ◽  
Jieru Chen ◽  
Jeffrey Schulden
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Retrospective Reports ◽  
Random Digit Dial ◽  
History Of

A random-digit-dial telephone survey was conducted in May 2003, with 355 parents of children ages 2–17 years old, living in Washington, DC, or in the two surrounding counties during the October 2002 sniper shootings, to examine parent retrospective reports of child event-related psychological distress. An estimated 32% of parents reported that children experienced at least one psychological distress symptom related to sniper shootings. Older children, females, children with a history of trauma exposure prior to sniper attacks, children whose parents reported routine disruption as the result of attacks, children whose parents perceived them as at great risk for harm from sniper attacks, and those children whose parents reported more traumatic stress symptoms in response to attacks were at greatest risk for reported psychological distress.

scholarly journals Growing Cell-Phone Population and Noncoverage Bias in Traditional Random Digit Dial Telephone Health Surveys

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 1121-1139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunghee Lee ◽  
J. Michael Brick ◽  
E. Richard Brown ◽  
David Grant
Keyword(s):  
Health Surveys ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Growing Cell ◽  
Random Digit Dial

scholarly journals Social Relations and Health: Comparing “Invisible” Arab Americans to Blacks and Whites

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine J. Ajrouch ◽  
Toni C. Antonucci
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Arab Americans ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Contact Frequency ◽  
Random Digit Dial ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This paper establishes preliminary benchmarks by comparing average values of social relations and health among Arab Americans, blacks, and whites. Specifically, we expand traditional racial/ethnic categories to distinguish Arab Americans, historically and legally considered white. Data come from a unique random-digit-dial (RDD) sample of Arab Americans (N = 96), blacks (N = 102), and whites (N = 100) from metro-Detroit collected in 2011, ranging in age from 19 to 89. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was conducted to compare health, network structure, composition, and support quality. Findings established preliminary benchmarks showing that Arab Americans reported more depressive symptoms (7.6) than whites (5.2) but no difference in physical health. Arab Americans also reported more contact frequency (4.4) than blacks (4.1) and whites (4.0) yet lower proportions of networks comprised of the same ethnicity (77 percent) compared to blacks (96 percent) and whites (97 percent). Unpacking the white category to identify Arab Americans in a comparative analysis identified benchmarks to indicate how Arab American health and social relations are distinct from blacks and whites, yielding unique avenues for thinking about new ways to conceptualize how race and social relations impact health disparities.

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