Italian Methods and Practices Regarding the LFS: Case of Response Rate and Response Burden
Data users and stakeholders judge the success of a survey by its response rate. According to the measures of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR, 2011) and following the Eurostat’s standard (EUROSTAT, 2005), the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) applied a number of best...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Czech Statistical Office
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.czso.cz/csu/2014edicniplan.nsf/engc/5D00422073/$File/32019714q3080.pdf |
| Summary: | Data users and stakeholders judge the success of a survey by its response rate. According to the measures of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR, 2011) and following the Eurostat’s standard (EUROSTAT, 2005), the Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) applied a number of best practices to increase the households response rate – and, consequently, confidence in data quality – such as: planning a wellstructured and a possibly short questionnaire, sending advance letters to sample households to inform them of the pending survey, giving standard survey introductions to well-trained interviewers, and monitoring data collection at all stages of the fieldwork. The focus on high response rates has many consequences. One is a high burden placed on respondents when a survey repeatedly contacts sample households, as ISTAT Labour Force Survey, and the other is the pressure on interviewing staff to spend time and resources to increase their response rates and not to accept a non-interview. |
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| ISSN: | 1804-8765 1804-8765 |