Increasing Return Rates of a Mail Survey to Exercise Professionals Using a Modest Monetary Incentive
- 1 February 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 86 (1) , 217-218
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1998.86.1.217
Abstract
This study indicated that a variety of survey techniques resulted in a modest return rate (66%) in a national survey of 455 exercise professionals. A $1.00 bill incentive was significantly more effective than no incentive in improving returns, and the rate of double responses in this anonymous mail survey was extremely low (<1%).Keywords
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