Recruiting a probability-based online panel via postal mail: Experimental evidence

Cornesse, Carina ; Felderer, Barbara ; Fikel, Marina ; Krieger, Ulrich ; Blom, Annelies G.

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DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393211006059
URL:	https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/59265
Weitere URL:	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/089443932...
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-592650
Dokumenttyp:	Zeitschriftenartikel
Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe:	Social Science Computer Review : SSCORE
Band/Volume:	40
Heft/Issue:	5
Seitenbereich:	1259-1284
Ort der Veröffentlichung:	Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.]
Verlag:	Sage
ISSN:	0894-4393 , 1552-8286
Sprache der Veröffentlichung:	Englisch
Einrichtung:	Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > SFB 884 Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften > Data Science (Blom 2017-2022) Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > MZES - Arbeitsbereich B
Bereits vorhandene Lizenz:	Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Fachgebiet:	300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Abstract:	Once recruited, probability-based online panels have proven to enable high-quality andhigh-frequency data collection. In ever faster-paced societies and, recently, in times of pandemiclockdowns, such online survey infrastructures are invaluable to social research. In absence of emailsampling frames, one way of recruiting such a panel is via postal mail. However, few studies haveexamined how to best approach and then transition sample members from the initial postal mailcontact to the online panel registration. To fill this gap, we implemented a large-scale experiment inthe recruitment of the 2018 sample of the German Internet Panel (GIP) varying panel recruitmentdesigns in four experimental conditions: online-only, concurrent mode, online-first, and paper-first.Our results show that the online-only design delivers higher online panel registration rates than theother recruitment designs. In addition, all experimental conditions led to similarly representativesamples on key socio-demographic characteristics.