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The impact of the interviewing process on individual respondents.
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Concerns about interview length and frequency date back to the 1920s. With the steady increase in the number and size of federally sponsored surveys, the US Office of Management and Budget set policies to reduce respondent burden with the Commission on Federal Paperwork (Sharp & Frankel, 1983). Many of these policies are concerned with eliminating redundant surveys. Guidelines for the protection of human subjects and institutional review boards are closely linked with the reduction of respondent burden. Respondent characteristics, such as age and level of education, may make the same survey burdensome to one group and not another. Wenemark, Frisman, Svensson and Kristenson (2010) showed a relationship between perceptions of burden and a measure of respondent motivation from intrinsic to extrinsic.
Bradburn (1979) proposed four categories of respondent burden – interview...
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McCarty, C. (2014). Respondent Burden. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_2501
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