Although it was not possible to contact non-responders directly due to the Data Protection Act (1998; DPA), press releases were made and posters put up at schools with historically low response rates in an attempt to encourage parents to complete the questionnaire and thus, reduce response bias.
The OBR, which developed a new method of predicting future price movements by bringing together a range of property value measures, said:"The model implies that house prices will consistently rise faster than income, barring a strong and historically unprecedented response from housing supply, leading to a steady rise in household debt relative to income".
(Historically this response was not unknown among East Asian Buddhists, and it is not rare among Western Buddhists today).
A more historically informed response may equally show how English working-class history in particular, has a long and productive relationship with ethnic and racial difference in a manner that forged the conditions for the universal welfare, and which some struggling with the 'progressive's dilemma' overlook.
The Reagan administration's historically apathetic response to the HIV/AIDS crisis is the subject of a harrowing documentary short. .
The Pentagon Papers, on the contrary, offered a historically rooted response to the ultimate question: Should we be there at all? Sure, both were about wars, and both revealed information that administrations did not want made public.
While historically the response of most countries facing scarcity has been to build more dams to store water, build more aqueducts to move water from one location to another, or drill deeper wells to reach aquifers, the future is unlikely to be one where we can solely engineer ourselves out of this challenge.
Historically, low response rates characterise online surveys conducted by our College; given this, we were satisfied that the available data as 'exploratory data' could justifiably inform our deliberations.
However, respondents had to provide their email address if they wished to be entered in one of two iPad draws which were used as incentives given historically poor response rates from practising health professionals.
