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The effect of offering respondents feedback on questionnaire results was investigated in a national mail survey of college-bound secondary school students. It was found that offering feedback had a significant positive effect on response rate, but the magnitude of that effect was slightly less than the increase in response rate resulting from a shorter questionnaire and considerably less than a follow-up contact with nonrespondents.
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Powers, D.E., Alderman, D.L. Feedback as an incentive for responding to a mail questionnaire. Res High Educ 17, 207–211 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00976698
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00976698