Sentence examples for rate of postal from inspiring English sources

The finding of the Cochrane review and Church's meta-analysis suggested that up-front incentive payment could significantly increase the response rate of postal surveys [ 7, 9].

Our results, along with the meta-analysis of similar studies, indicate that the identifiability of completed questionnaires will lower the response rate of postal surveys by two to three percentage points.

The use of AEC records alone to administer a postal survey was not contemplated because of the number of survey questions and low participation rates of postal surveys.

We found no previous studies of the effects of face-to-face contact with a researcher on subsequent rates of postal questionnaire return.

One of the four RCTs evaluated the effect of a monetary (cash or check), one the effect of a non-monetary incentive (pencil) on retention rates of postal questionnaires [ 2, 3].

Following the report by Cummings et al. that up to 1995, response rates of postal questionnaires of healthcare professionals remained constant at approximately 60% [ 6], Cook et al. demonstrated that by 2005 response rates in surveys of healthcare professionals had slightly declined to an average of 57.5% [ 4].

Again based in England, Roberts et al. (2004) [ 23] in an RCT to evaluate the effect of including a lottery incentive on response rate found that the offer of entry into a lottery style draw for £100 of high street vouchers had no effect on the return rates of postal questionnaires amongst respondents aged 18 years and over (lottery and no incentive conditions both resulted in a 62% response rate).

A survey last month of 1,000 Americans by FreeRide, an Internet marketing group, found that only 1% of web surfers click on banner ads, only half the success rate of random postal marketing.Until now, this has deterred all but a few computer companies, such as Dell and IBM, from spending much on Internet advertising.

The initial response rate of the postal survey was 40%.

The response rate of the postal questionnaires used for the first effect evaluation (12 months after the start of the study) was 95%.

Based on a 40% baseline response rate for postal questionnaires, the addition of a monetary incentive was estimated to increase response by 92 questionnaires per 1000 sent (95% CI 50 to 131).