1. Response rate in Switzerland Dominique Joye www.sidos.ch

2. Response rate in Switzerland

3. Introduction

4. Household survey is also part of the national culture Interviewee Interviewer

5. What is response rate?

6. Response rate in Switzerland

7. Respondents and non- respondents

8. How to know more about non-respondents Use the information in a "normal" survey Use multi steps surveys Use specific surveys

9. A Swiss experience

10. Basis Two practical tests 3 samples Some additional levels of information

11. Two practical tests Incentives Choice of respondent in the household

12. Total Household respondent:521 Household non-respondent: 229

13. Household respondent:521 L1 –Direct: 448 –After conversion refusal: 73 L2 –Individual questionnaire: 369 Easy HtR Reluctant –Losses: 152

14. Household non-respondent: 229 Ineligible: 35 Not possible: 47 No contact: 39 Refusal 1: 102 Refusal 2: 79

15. Results Practical tests: table 1 Additional information

16. Practical tests: table 1 Hypothesis 1: effect of incentive Hypothesis 2: effect of selection in the household

17. Additional information Refusal with information (175 cases) –Research questions Is there a way to predict conversion refusal? Is there different patterns in the explanations given? –Results Households with information –Research question Is there different social characteristics between households with further response or not? –Results individuals –Research question Is there different answers to different topics between "easy", HtR and reluctant? Results –Friends –Trust –Political interest

18. Strategies of Improvement

19. Interviewers Training Motivating

20. Interviewees Incentives Information