The alternative, a common practice of lower order publishing, is to create advertising content that is easily confused with editorial content, in the hope of raising response rates.
3 5–7 In addition, a study has reported that sending a cover letter that asks recipients to decline participation within 7 days if they do not want to participate raises response rates.
But state officials mounted a major campaign that included appropriating $24 million to raise the response rate.
Among counties with the most significant improvements was New York County -- Manhattan -- which raised its response rate to 60percentt, from 52percentt in 1990.
Even the second reminder letter substantially raised the response rate whereas a third contact by telephone did not show a further significant improvement in participation.
To raise the response rates and improve real-time pricing's effects, the following strategies are proposed: 1) introduce and subsidize the purchase of economically feasible domestic electricity storage devices; 2) integrate environmental education modules in the real-time pricing policy design, so as to raise household dwellers' sensitive to the price signals.
No extra efforts were undertaken to raise the response rates at T2 and T3.
By examining how participants interpret self-completion measures, improvements can be made that reduce the number of unanswered questions and response errors, and raise overall response rates [ 5, 6].
Census Bureau figures indicate that 29 states raised their response rates from 1990, with five states -- California, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Nevada and Wyoming -- lifting rates by five percentage points.
We recommend the use of reminders in arthroplasty registries using PROMs, as reminders raised the response rates markedly.
