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Maintaining high response rates - is it worth the effort?

Are high response rates worth the effort? Patrick Sturgis, University of Southampton Assessing dataset representativeness during survey data collection - Evidence from the 2011 Census Non-Response Link Study Gabriele B. Durrant University of Southampton The impact of response maximisation strategies on under-represented sub-populations Joel Williams TNS-BMRB As maintaining response rates becomes ever more challenging, data collection agencies are allocating larger shares of available resources to repeated callback attempts at addresses until contact is made, and engaging in refusal conversion strategies to persuade initially uncooperative households to undertake an interview. In this evening event we explore whether this focus on maintaining high response rates is worth the effort, or whether we might tolerate lower response rates.