Talk or Text?

• Tác giả: Sofia Amaral
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 264.01 Early and Eastern churches
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2022
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 321496
• Chủ đề: 1. HOUSEHOLD SURVEY RESPONSE RATE; 2. PHONE SURVEYS; 3. SURVEY EXPERIMENTS; 4. SURVEY RESPONSE RATE; 5. WHATSAPP SURVEYS

Tóm tắt

Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, this study randomly selected about 600 adults in El Salvador to survey using two different tools: telephone interviews or a self-completion survey via WhatsApp. The findings show that phone-based surveys increase the rate of survey completion by 42 percentage points. Even larger effects are documented for women and older adults. Although the direct costs of phone-based surveys are substantially higher-doubling implementation cost-the estimates imply that when adjusted for the probability of completion, the costs of conducting phone-based surveys can be 25 percent lower.