Abstract
We studied women 45–54 years of age from two communities who failed to return a mailed survey in an experiment to assess the impact on interviewing response rates of leaving messages on telephone answering machines at the time of telephone follow-up. There were 88 and 103 subjects assigned to the “message” and “no message” groups, respectively. After adjustment for age, interviewer, and community, leaving messages increased the rate of reaching a household by about 15% and improved the overall interviewing response rate by about 15% as well. This improvement was more apparent in women from the higher socioeconomic status community.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 380-383 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Epidemiology |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 1993 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Data collection
- Epidemiologic methods
- Health surveys
- Interviews
- Social class
- Survey methods