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In recent years, household surveys have expended significant effort to counter well-documented increases in direct refusals and greater difficulty contacting survey respondents. A substantial amount of fieldwork effort in panel surveys using telephone interviewing is devoted to the task of contacting the respondent to schedule the day and time of the interview. Higher fieldwork effort leads to greater costs and is associated with lower response rates. A new approach was experimentally evaluated in the 2017 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS) that allowed a randomly selected subset of respondents to choose their own day and time of their telephone interview through the use of an online appointment scheduler. TAS is a nationally representative study of US young adults aged 18–28 years embedded within the worlds' longest running panel study, the PSID. This paper experimentally evaluates the effect of offering the online appointment scheduler on fieldwork outcomes, including number of interviewer contact attempts and interview sessions, number of days to complete the interview, and response rates. We describe panel study members' characteristics associated with uptake of the online scheduler and examine differences in the effectiveness of the treatment across subgroups. Finally, potential cost-savings of fieldwork effort due to the online appointment scheduler are evaluated.

We describe the development and implementation of a survey administered using interactivevoice response (IVR) technology to collect information on sensitive topics in a USnational sample of adolescents age 12-17. Respondents were participants in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics 2014 Child Development Supplement (N=1,098). We review questionnaire design, fieldwork protocols, data quality and completeness, and respondent burden. We find that in the context of research on sensitive topics with adolescents, IVR is a cost-efficient and flexible method of data collection that yields high survey response rates and low item nonresponse rates with distributions on key variables that are comparable to other national studies.

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Adaptive survey designs are increasingly used by survey practitioners to counteract ongoing declines in household survey response rates and manage rising fieldwork costs. This paper reports findings from an evaluation of an early-bird incentive (EBI) experiment targeting high-effort respondents who participate in the 2019 wave of the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We identified a subgroup of high-effort respondents at risk of nonresponse based on their prior wave fieldwork effort and randomized them to a treatment offering an extra time-delimited monetary incentive for completing their interview within the first month of data collection (treatment group; N = 800) or the standard study incentive (control group; N = 400). In recent waves, we have found that the costs of the protracted fieldwork needed to complete interviews with high-effort cases in the form of interviewer contact attempts plus an increased incentive near the close of data collection are extremely high. By incentivizing early participation and reducing the number of interviewer contact attempts and fieldwork days to complete the interview, our goal was to manage both nonresponse and survey costs. We found that the EBI treatment increased response rates and reduced fieldwork effort and costs compared to a control group. We review several key findings and limitations, discuss their implications, and identify the next steps for future research.

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the world's longest running household panel survey. Since it began in 1968, it has collected data on the same families and their descendants, making it an essential part of America's data infrastructure for empirically based social science research. The PSID arose from the War on Poverty as a tool for evaluating poverty dynamics, and this year (2018) marks 50 years of data collection. Because of its long history and distinctive design of following adult children as they form their own households, the PSID is uniquely positioned to address emerging social and behavioral research questions and related policy issues. This overview presents the design and structural aspects and its evolution over the past 50 years, the successes of the current survey, possible future directions, and the value of using the PSID to understand the challenges facing American families.

This report examines the opportunities and challenges associated with the adoption of computer-assisted interviewing (CAI) technology for data collection in household surveys in the Indian context, following a recent large-scale test of CAI in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The issues identified are highly relevant to the Government of Tamil Nadu's (GOTN) ongoing work to convert state survey data collection operations to CAI. These issues are also more generally informative to the shift from paper-based questionnaire instruments to CAI technology for state governments throughout India. The Survey Research Center (SRC) at the University of Michigan has worked closely with a Tamil Nadu state government agency—the Department of Economics and Statistics—that is at the center of this shift to CAI. Based on this experience, and our background running major CAI surveys in the U.S., Nepal, China, and elsewhere, this report provides some broader context about CAI, key features to consider in the selection of CAI software platforms, issues in the management of CAI operations, and related topics. This report was prepared by SRC independently of GOTN, but in service of the GOTN's work to expand CAI data collection. ; World Bank ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/171096/1/WB Report Transition to CAPI FINAL 2021-02-27.pdf ; Description of WB Report Transition to CAPI FINAL 2021-02-27.pdf : Technical Report ; SELF