National Household Education Survey, 2003

2004 ◽  
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National Household Education Survey

Using Response Propensity Modeling to Allocate Noncontingent Incentives in an Address-Based Sample: Evidence from a National Experiment

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-411
Author(s):  
Michael T Jackson ◽  
Cameron B McPhee ◽  
Paul J Lavrakas
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Response Rate ◽  
Survey Response ◽  
Nonresponse Bias ◽  
Monetary Incentives ◽  
Entire Sample ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Response Propensity ◽  
Using Data ◽  
National Household Education Survey ◽  
Probability Of Response

Abstract Monetary incentives are frequently used to improve survey response rates. While it is common to use a single incentive amount for an entire sample, allowing the incentive to vary inversely with the expected probability of response may help to mitigate nonresponse and/or nonresponse bias. Using data from the 2016 National Household Education Survey (NHES:2016), an address-based sample (ABS) of US households, this article evaluates an experiment in which the noncontingent incentive amount was determined by a household’s predicted response propensity (RP). Households with the lowest RP received $10, those with the highest received $2 or $0, and those in between received the standard NHES incentive of $5. Relative to a uniform $5 protocol, this “tailored” incentive protocol slightly reduced the response rate and had no impact on observable nonresponse bias. These results serve as an important caution to researchers considering the targeting of incentives or other interventions based on predicted RP. While preferable in theory to “one-size-fits-all” approaches, such differential designs may not improve recruitment outcomes without a dramatic increase in the resources devoted to low RP cases. If budget and/or ethical concerns limit the resources that can be devoted to such cases, RP-based targeting could have little practical benefit.

scholarly journals Democratic education across school types: Evidence for the U.S. from NHES99

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Clive R. Belfield
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Community Service ◽  
Independent Schools ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Catholic School ◽  
Political Tolerance ◽  
The Us ◽  
Civic Skills ◽  
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Positive Effect

This article reports on the differences in democratic education across school types, using the US National Household Education Survey (NHES) of 1999. We replicate the estimation approach of Campbell (1998) and find a strongly positive effect from attendance at Catholic school or private independent schools on community service participation, civic skills, civic confidence, political knowledge and political tolerance. The results are reasonably robust to alternative specifications. We consider the implications of these results for policy.

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