The Effects of Respondent and Question Characteristics on Respondent Answering Behaviors in Telephone Interviews

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Using Advance Respondent Letters in Random-digit-dialing Telephone Surveys

The rationale for the use of an advance respondent letter is based on the experience of survey researchers that contact before an actual interview attempt “warmsup” respondents, hopefully making them more positively disposed toward participation than if they were only to receive a “cold call.” The logic is that using advance respondent letters will increase response rates, thereby reducing the ...

the effects of changing roughness on the flow structure in the bends

flow in natural river bends is a complex and turbulent phenomenon which affects the scour and sedimentations and causes an irregular bed topography on the bed. for the reason, the flow hydralics and the parameters which affect the flow to be studied and understand. in this study the effect of bed and wall roughness using the software fluent discussed in a sharp 90-degree flume bend with 40.3cm ...

Response Order Effects in Dichotomous Categorical Questions Presented Orally: the Impact of Question and Respondent Attributes

Using data from 548 experiments in telephone surveys conducted by the Gallup Organization, we explored how attributes of questions and respondents moderate response order effects in dichotomous categorical questions. These effects were predominantly recency effects and occurred most in questions that were more difficult to comprehend (especially among respondents with the least education), with...

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...