Analiza determinanti odaziva u anketnom istraživanju Europske studije vrijednosti
Analysis of Survey Response Rate in the European Values Study

Summary/Abstract: Using the correlational model of multiple regression analysis, the authors analyzed data on characteristics of the procedure of on-field sampling, descriptors of the interviewing 66 procedure, descriptors of interviewers, settlements where interviews were done, and characteristics of contact and respondents. These were analyzed as descriptors of the behavior of 139 interviewers in the European Values Study in Croatia. Availability of respondents as a combination of demographic and contact characteristics was detected as the main predictor of variability of the response rate. Another set of predictors were recognized in the set of characteristics of interviewers’ behavior which do not comply with the proposed rules of sampling or interviewing. Those predictors clearly depict interviewers' utility oriented behavior aiming at maximizing the financial effects of engagement in fieldwork. Therefore, real economic-motivation model of fieldwork management has to be developed in order to prevent practice of utilitarian disobeying fieldwork rules. Other predictors show considerably less or none of the predictive power with regard to the response rate.

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