| Title | Representativeness in online panels: How far can we reach |
| Subtitle | - |
| Authors | Knoef, Marike
Vos, Klaas de |
| Contributor | - |
| Publication Type | Working paper |
| Topics |
Demography and population Survey methodology |
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| Abstract | This paper investigates to what degree it is possible to succeed in obtaining a representative internet panel. We therefore examine the representativeness of a panel, which explicitly aims to be representative, has undertaken considerable efforts to accomplish this, and is established in a country with a high internet penetration. Representativeness is studied by comparing the characteristics of the panel members to national statistics. This study enables us to determine a degree for the upper bound of representativeness that can be reached in online-panels, also for other countries. A comparison with panel data collected in a more traditional manner and with an online access panel is provided. For representative survey data, the response to specific questionnaires in the panel is important as well. We find a considerable overlap between the variables associated with differences in the probability to participate in the panel and the probability to respond to individual questionnaires. |
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| Dataset | - |
| Source | Working paper |
| Publisher | - |
| Publication Year | 2009 |
| Copyright | - |
| Intl Identifier | - |
| Language | English |
| URL | - |
| Uploaded File |  paper_knoef_devos_final_JOS_2.doc |
