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To correct previous response rate calculations for the Survey of Consumer Attitudes (SCA) and evaluate long-term trends and specific sources of telephone survey nonresponse between 1979 and 2003.

January 1, 2005Public Opinion Quarterly

Changes in Telephone Survey Nonresponse over the Past Quarter Century

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RCRichard T. CurtinUniversity of Michigan SPStanley PresserUniversity of Maryland, College Park ESE. SingerNorthwestern University

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Longitudinal survey analysis reveals accelerating declines in telephone response rates from 1979 to 2003, highlighting growing noncontact and refusal challenges in public polling.

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To correct previous response rate calculations for the Survey of Consumer Attitudes (SCA) and evaluate long-term trends and specific sources of telephone survey nonresponse between 1979 and 2003.
Analyzed longitudinal telephone survey data from the University of Michigan's Survey of Consumer Attitudes spanning 1979 through 2003.
Corrected calculation errors from prior 1979–1996 benchmarks and evaluated the influence of caller identification technology adoption after 1996 on distinct refusal and noncontact patterns.
The response rate decline between 1979 and 1996 was substantially larger than reported in earlier benchmark evaluations.
Survey response rates decreased at a significantly steeper rate from 1996 to 2003 than during the 1979–1996 interval.
Trends for survey refusals and noncontacts diverged substantially across the 1979 to 2003 timeline.

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Curtin et al. (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a10cd0e38707d63999f58bf https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfi002

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Longitudinal survey analysis reveals accelerating declines in telephone response rates from 1979 to 2003, highlighting growing noncontact and refusal challenges in public polling.

Changes in Telephone Survey Nonresponse over the Past Quarter Century

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Changes in Telephone Survey Nonresponse over the Past Quarter Century

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