Hi all,

A colleague and I wondered what, if anything, the literature says about accuracy of online vs. paper and pencil surveys. There's a lot available about response rates, but does medium affect how honest people are in their responses?

Will happily share with the list.

Thanks!!
Jenny

Jenny L. Davis
Assistant Professor of Sociology
James Madison University
Weekly Author: Cyborgology.orghttp://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/
Twitter: @Jenny_L_Davishttps://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis

Hi - in the EU Kids Online survey, it just so happened that some countries used CAPI and some used PAPI so we compared how the kids responded in our technical guide to the data here http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45270/

Best, Sonia

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Hi all,

A colleague and I wondered what, if anything, the literature says about accuracy of online vs. paper and pencil surveys. There's a lot available about response rates, but does medium affect how honest people are in their responses?

Will happily share with the list.

Thanks!!
Jenny

Jenny L. Davis
Assistant Professor of Sociology
James Madison University
Weekly Author: Cyborgology.orghttp://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/
Twitter: @Jenny_L_Davishttps://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis

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Hi Jenny,
I explored paper vs online surveys in my book (Internet Survey Methodology,
Balch, 2010 -- you should be able to review a copy through inter-library
loan). The short answer is the medium matters.  Issues include:

• participant perceived ownership of the computer,
• participant anonymity concerns,
• participant computer skills,
• Branching surveys and the amorphous nature of screen content lead to
  participants taking "different surveys"

Regards,
 
Charles Balch PhD
Faculty, Department of Business & Administration
Northern Arizona University - Yuma

Office/cell: (928) 317-6455 / 287-3906
Skype: NAUCharlie
Google+: cvb23@nau.edu
   

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Hi all,

A colleague and I wondered what, if anything, the literature says about
accuracy of online vs. paper and pencil surveys. There's a lot available
about response rates, but does medium affect how honest people are in their
responses?

Will happily share with the list.

Thanks!!
Jenny

Jenny L. Davis
Assistant Professor of Sociology
James Madison University
Weekly Author: Cyborgology.orghttp://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/
Twitter: @Jenny_L_Davishttps://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis

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While we are on the topic of methodology, can anyone recommend suitable introductory reading on the topic of using social network sites in a research setting? I wanted to add this topic to my undergraduate methods course for sociology students as it is not covered in our text.

Thanks!

Noelle Chesley

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Hi,

For quality control, I recommend using an attentiveness question (or two) regardless of mode of data collection. Here is an example.

The purpose of this question is to assess your attentiveness to question wording. For this question please mark the “Very often” response.

Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
Very Often

In paper surveys I have administered in the past few years on young adults (in postal mail) this has resulted in 3-4% cases excluded from the analyses. (I pitch cases where the answer is wrong or the respondent skipped the question.)

Eszter

Eszter Hargittai
Delaney Family Professor, Communication Studies Department, Northwestern University
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

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Quoting "Davis, Jennifer Lauren - davis5jl" < davis5jl@jmu.edu >:

Hi all,

A colleague and I wondered what, if anything, the literature says
about accuracy of online vs. paper and pencil surveys. There's a lot
available about response rates, but does medium affect how honest
people are in their responses?

Will happily share with the list.

Thanks!!
Jenny

Jenny L. Davis
Assistant Professor of Sociology
James Madison University

Weekly Author: Cyborgology.org< http:// thesocietypages.org/ cyborgology/ >
Twitter: @Jenny_L_Davis< https:// twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis >

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