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Second, our chosen incentive improved representativeness.
The incentive increased the response rate and improved representativeness by reaching more respondents with lower education.
Indeed, lower response may not necessarily predict further nonresponse bias (35, 36), and efforts to increase response rates do not guarantee improved representativeness (37).
Thus, despite the generally improved representativeness of birth cohort studies when compared with other forms of sample selection, the prevalence of psychotic-like experiences reported here may have been influenced by attrition.
Due to the breadth of research still needed in this field, the following agenda prioritises: sophistication in data analysis; longitudinal studies and improved representativeness; and attention to understanding the motivations, perceptions and attitudes of preconception care stakeholders.
Although the incomplete data linkage may reduce the generalizability of the study findings, the linked sub-sample was similar to the full Ontario survey sample across demographic characteristics (gender, rural/urban status, and age), and the unique sampling weights created for this sub-sample may have improved representativeness.
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Thirdly, we decided to include a broader spectrum of critically ill patients in order to improve representativeness of the data.
To improve representativeness and geographic coverage of the sample, no more than three households within the same apartment building were included.
The results of Experiment 2 show that the skimmed video with mostly ending part and multiple cues can significantly improve representativeness.
To improve representativeness of this sampling strategy, we employed an age- and geographically-based sampling frame for the post-pandemic sera, and adopted post-stratification sampling weights to achieve better representation of the NSW population structure.
We chose respondent driven sampling for recruitment of participants to improve representativeness of results.
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