This Article Full Text (OnlineFirst PDF) All Versions of this Article: 0013164408324462v1 69/3/389    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Van Horn, P. S. Articles by Martinussen, M. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Survey Response Rates and Survey Administration in Counseling and Clinical Psychology: A Meta-Analysis

¹ University of Denver
² University of Tromsø, Norway

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: phoward2{at}du.edu.

	Abstract

This article reports results of a meta-analysis of survey response rates in published research in counseling and clinical psychology over a 20-year span and describes reported survey administration procedures in those fields. Results of 308 survey administrations showed a weighted average response rate of 49.6%. Among possible moderators, response rates differed only by population sampled, journal in which articles were published, sampling source and method, and use of follow-up. Researchers whose studies were included in this meta-analysis used follow-up but rarely used incentives, prenotification, or other response-facilitation methods to maximize response rates. Although the future of survey research in general may rely more heavily on Internet data collection, mail surveys dominate in this field.

First published on October 15, 2008, doi:10.1177/0013164408324462

Educational and Psychological Measurement 2009;69:389.

A more recent version of this article appeared on June 1, 2009


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?