Members of Pew Assay Center’s American Trends Console (ATP) complete all surveys online. Our ambition was to actuate whether abacus the advantage to complete surveys through entering alternate articulation acknowledgment (IVR) was achievable and if it would advance representation of beneath (digitally) community and non-internet users.
Pew Assay Center activated the activity of abacus an IVR abstracts accumulating access on a sample absolute of the ATP. In March 2021, the Center mailed assay invitations to 10,000 residential addresses sampled from the United States Postal Service’s Computerized Delivery Sequence File. The allurement included $2 and asked abeyant respondents to participate in a abbreviate assay in the access of their choice. They could either log in to a website and complete the assay online or punch a toll-free cardinal to acknowledge via alternate articulation response. In the IVR mode, individuals listened to computer-recorded questions and acknowledgment options and keyed in their acknowledgment (e.g., 1 for Yes or 2 for No). All participants who answered via web accustomed the abounding questionnaire, while those who chose IVR were randomized amid the aforementioned abounding analysis and an abbreviated version. Web respondents accustomed an added $15 aloft completion, and IVR respondents accustomed $10. In total, 1,332 individuals completed the survey, with 1,250 accomplishing so by web and 82 via IVR.
About 7% of U.S. adults do not use the internet, 16% are not digitally literate, and half cannot read above an eighth-grade level. These attributes can accomplish it difficult for abounding Americans to participate in a self-administered online survey. Moreover, non-internet and beneath community (both in agreement of annual akin and computer savviness) individuals are not about broadcast throughout the population. Rather, they are disproportionately adequate to be older, accept beneath academic apprenticeship and alive in rural areas, on average, than their counterparts. Missing them, in added words, harms the representation of online surveys and can acquaint bias.
Meanwhile, a growing cardinal of surveys, including those conducted on Pew Assay Center’s American Trends Console (ATP), can alone be completed online. Online-only methods underrepresent the non-internet and beneath community population, potentially accretion bent and misrepresenting about-face in the data. Some web-only surveys attack to annual for the non-internet and beneath community populations application weighting adjustments, while others accommodate internet admission (as is done for the ATP) or an alternative mode of abstracts accumulating to individuals afterwards internet access. But these are amiss solutions. Weighting relies on assumptions about the similarities amid internet and non-internet populations that may be faulty. Providing internet admission does not abode articulacy challenges and may not be acknowledged in recruiting individuals who carefully accept to be offline. And the accession of some added modes (such as alive blast interviewing) may introduce interviewer effects or (in the case of mail) be absurd due to timelines and budgets.
One adjustment to advance representation of the non-internet and beneath community citizenry is to acquiesce bodies to booty surveys in an offline access that does not crave annual but is still self-administered. In March 2021, the Center fielded a abstraction to assay the achievability and aftereffect of accession abstracts through entering (respondent-initiated) alternate articulation acknowledgment (IVR) in accession to the internet. An allurement was mailed to 10,000 addresses and gave individuals the best of commutual the assay online or dialing a toll-free cardinal to acknowledge via IVR. In the IVR mode, individuals listened to computer-recorded questions and acknowledgment options and keyed in their acknowledgment application their phone. In total, the abstraction yielded 1,332 completed interviews, 1,250 via web and 82 via IVR.
The abstraction yielded three primary findings:
In 2020, about 12% of civic preelection acclamation acclimated IVR either as the sole acknowledgment access or in aggregate with accession access like online. In about all instances, these acclamation used outbound IVR. The abstraction abbreviated in this abode activated a agnate but audible access called inbound IVR. The analogue flows from the angle of the actuality administering the survey. With outbound IVR, the automatic calls are accomplished by the researcher and go out to anniversary of the buzz numbers sampled for the survey. From the respondent’s perspective, their buzz rings (or the alarm is blocked); they accept accustomed a algid alarm to booty an automatic survey. By contrast, the entering IVR action activated actuality starts with the sampling of home addresses. The sampled addresses were mailed a letter with $2 and a appeal to booty a assay either online or by calling in to booty the automatic survey. From the respondent’s perspective, they can accept how and aback they respond.
The accession of IVR as a adjustment to advance representation of the non-internet and beneath community citizenry in online panels is promising, but added assay is bare to accumulate the assay deployment process, abate costs and access the admeasurement of IVR respondents. For example, while this abstraction sheds ablaze on the abeyant biases associated with online-only panels and provides some affirmation of the abeyant for IVR, it does not accommodate a way to actuate the admeasurement of IVR participants who would ultimately accede to empanelment (i.e., participate in again surveys), nor does it actuate whether these individuals may be recruited to the console via accession modes (e.g., mail or alive phone) and retained by acceptance acknowledgment to alone console surveys via IVR. Additionally, the abstraction is bound to English speakers, so it does not abode the achievability of recruiting underrepresented groups aural the Spanish-speaking population. We achievement that advisers alfresco of the Center may use the adeptness acquired in this abstraction to added advance best practices on how to absorb IVR.
There are several challenges that accomplish implementing IVR added difficult than some added modes.
First, some assay platforms (the software acclimated to aggregate and administrate assay data) are not adequate for both web and IVR administration. As a result, the IVR and web instruments accept to be programmed twice, application altered platforms for anniversary mode. In our case, systems were synced nightly to abbreviate the accident that individuals completed the assay in both modes. However, the abridgement of alive affiliation meant alike interviews were accessible (this happened 14 times), and respondents could not alpha in one access and complete in a altered access afterwards accepting to alpha over. Accepting assorted platforms additionally creates a charge for chiral action to accommodate abstracts accumulating ecology (e.g., the abstracts accumulating dashboard could not clue IVR fractional interviews) and doubles both the programming and testing assets adapted (i.e., bulk and time) and the affairs of programming errors.
Second, altered appearance of the IVR software crave adapted consideration. For example, the software cannot calmly randomize catechism diction differences. Center advisers generally acreage questions in which the acknowledgment options are apparent in a randomized order. One acknowledging may be asked a catechism that offers “strongly agree” as the aboriginal acknowledgment best and “strongly disagree” as the last, admitting accession acknowledging would accept the choices in about-face order. For IVR, a abstracted catechism has to be programmed for every adjustment combination, and the constant variables accept to be recombined into a distinct capricious afterwards abstracts collection.
The software additionally cannot clarify acknowledgment options based on above-mentioned responses afterwards circuitous programming. For this study, this limitation afflicted how Hispanic agent was collected. Individuals who self-identified as Hispanic were asked to accommodate their Hispanic origins (e.g., Cuba, Mexico). If they called assorted countries, respondents were asked with which one they best carefully identify. In the web survey, acknowledgment options to the aftereffect catechism were bound to those responses called in the aboriginal question. For IVR, individuals could (though none did) say they best articular with a country that they had not ahead listed.
Third, the software requires assorted types of changes to the means in which questions are worded. “Check all that apply” questions (a distinct catechism in which respondents can baddest added than one answer) are not achievable in IVR, so edits are fabricated to echo the axis or alpha of these types of questions and again ask a yes-no catechism about anniversary acknowledgment option.
Another accepted catechism architecture on Center surveys are questions for which the acknowledgment options are allotment of the catechism (e.g., “Do you currently analyze as a man, a woman, or in some added way?”). To abbreviate repetition, the advisers added instructions into the IVR catechism (e.g., “Do you currently analyze as a man? Columnist one. For a woman, columnist two, or for some added way, columnist three”).
Some questions frequently asked at the Center accept a continued account of acknowledgment options (e.g., online, respondents are provided 12 acknowledgment options aback asked for their religion). In IVR, respondents are adapted to accept to all acknowledgment options afore answering in adjustment to minimize order effects and speeding. All of these examples access acknowledging burden, which may increase breakoffs or altitude absurdity due to satisficing.
Fourth, advancing questions (those that respondents acknowledgment in their own words) are difficult in IVR. For the achievability test, some advancing questions were alone from the IVR version. For example, if an alone appear actuality of a chase added than those specified, the web adaptation provided a argument box for the acknowledging to blazon in their answer. Advisers afterwards back-code the advancing argument into preexisting categories. In our study, 5% of web respondents called “some added chase or origin,” of which 28% entered argument that was coded aback to accession chase accumulation and afflicted the assigned chase class the Center uses for analysis. By eliminating the advancing acknowledgment for the IVR mode, chase and agnate variables cannot be back-coded, artificially accretion the admeasurement of respondents anecdotic as accession race.
Some advancing questions cannot be alone (e.g., name for which to abode the allurement check). In these cases, respondents were asked for a exact response, which was afterwards manually transcribed. Chiral archetype was achievable accustomed the bound cardinal of advancing responses and IVR respondents, but this access may not be scalable. There was additionally some affair that chiral archetype would aftereffect in misspellings that would crave checks to be reissued, but no such apropos materialized.
Fifth, IVR surveys booty about alert as continued to complete as web surveys. IVR respondents in our abstraction were about disconnected into two groups – one accumulation accustomed a continued anatomy (max of 83 questions) and the added accustomed a abbreviate anatomy (max of 44 questions). Web respondents and those assigned to the IVR continued anatomy accustomed the absolute questionnaire, admitting abbreviate anatomy respondents accustomed an abbreviated questionnaire. Admitting web respondents took an boilerplate of 11 account to complete the absolute survey, it took 20 account to complete via IVR. This is in allotment due to the cardinal of added questions adapted to aggregate the aforementioned advice in IVR (e.g., allurement Hispanic agent is one catechism online but nine questions via IVR). Anniversary IVR catechism additionally takes about 1.6 times as continued to administrate and aggregate a acknowledgment as the aforementioned catechism asked online (18 abnormal vs. 11 abnormal for IVR continued anatomy and web, respectively). IVR respondents are adapted to accept to the absolute catechism and all acknowledgment options afore they can baddest an answer, admitting web respondents accept no time constraints imposed on them.
Sixth, the Center requested that the IVR articulation be automated, not recorded by a alive human. ATP surveys generally crave last-minute analysis changes, and the actuality who initially annal a catechism may not be accessible on a bound timeline to apparatus the changes in IVR. Additionally, bendability is important beyond ATP surveys, and the aforementioned alone who annal one assay may not be accessible for a afterwards survey. Automatic text-to-voice applications do not ache these limitations. Automation additionally provides adaptability to ascendancy the acceleration of administration.
But automatic choir appear with their own challenges. Accent or accent on a accurate chat is not accessible in the IVR belvedere acclimated for this abstraction (underlining or ALL CAPS are acclimated to accommodate accent online), agreement added cerebral accountability on respondents. The use of automation additionally requires absolute adjustment of punctuation. If punctuation is incorrect, the automatic articulation does not abeyance in the adapted places. In this study, several iterations of the analysis were adapted aloof to abode punctuation placement.
Logistically, several improvements would be bare afore IVR could be analytic implemented as an added access for the ATP. Surveys would charge to be confused to a belvedere that could acreage both web and IVR surveys. The belvedere would charge to be able to calmly randomize catechism and acknowledgment advantage order, apparatus circuitous filters and skip argumentation and be able to acclimatize accent on specific words. Staff would charge to be accomplished to address questions that could be fielded in both web and IVR and accomplished to architecture them to acquiesce the computer to appropriately abeyance and accent words in a address constant with animal accent patterns. Added assay would be adapted to ensure that adaptations in catechism diction do not breach trends and aftermath analytic reliable and aloof data. Anniversary console is different, but we accept best of these requirements would authority for added online panels as well.
As one adeptness expect, IVR is added able than web surveys at accepting accord from beneath tech-savvy adults. About bisected (45%) of all IVR respondents in our abstraction appear exceptional (less than several times per day) or no internet use. This compares to aloof 7% of web respondents.
While absolute measures of articulacy were not collected, IVR respondents are altered on several metrics activated with both internet use and literacy. They are about alert as adequate to be age 65 or earlier and added than 2.5 times as adequate to accept a aerial academy apprenticeship or beneath or to accomplish $30,000 or beneath in domiciliary assets than their web counterparts. IVR respondents are additionally added adequate to analyze as politically bourgeois than web respondents. While individuals age 65 and earlier are already able-bodied represented on the ATP, the ATP decidedly underrepresents individuals with beneath apprenticeship and lower incomes. If the cardinal of respondents recruited via IVR were ample enough, it could adjust the skew in apprenticeship and assets on the panel.
While IVR was acknowledged in recruiting individuals from abounding groups commonly underrepresented on the ATP, the success was not universal. For example, the ATP underrepresents adolescent adults (ages 18 to 29) and beneath socially affianced individuals (e.g., bodies who do not advance and/or vote). Alone 5% of IVR participants are ages 18 to 29, compared with 14% in the accepted population, and 72% of IVR respondents abode voting in the 2020 accepted election, compared with the actual assembly of 66%. Neither of these allegation are surprising. Younger adults are added adequate to be online and opt for web over IVR. IVR, like all self-administered modes, additionally requires cogent action from the respondent, article beneath adequate to be taken up by beneath affianced individuals.
While the accession of IVR appears to be acknowledged at recruiting individuals altered from those who acknowledge via web, our assay did not recruit abundant of them. A absolute of 1,332 respondents completed the assay acquiescent a acknowledgment bulk of 13.7% (AAPOR RR1). About all respondents (94%) autonomous to complete via web, with alone 82 commutual via IVR.
A hardly beyond allotment of arrive individuals autonomous to alpha IVR (7%), but IVR suffered from a college breakoff rate. Admitting 95% of individuals who buried into the web assay completed it, alone 80% of those who accustomed the IVR continued anatomy and 89% who accustomed the IVR abbreviate anatomy completed. This is not hasty accustomed that the IVR assay (even the abbreviate form) took longer, on average, to complete, and acknowledgment ante are alongside activated with survey length(as breadth increases, acknowledgment ante decrease). Unfortunately, it suggests added improvements charge to be fabricated to access the admission bulk (i.e., the admeasurement of bodies who alpha the survey) amid the types of bodies who may angular against IVR (as against to web) response. It additionally suggests that the IVR assay may charge to be beneath or incentives may charge to be beyond to advance the IVR achievement rate.
One abstruse change that would ensure added individuals complete the assay via IVR is abolishment of the web option. However, this access would adequate lower the all-embracing acknowledgment bulk back abounding bodies adopt commutual online. Moreover, IVR is advantageous insofar as it recruits individuals who would contrarily not participate. The ambition should not aloof be to access the cardinal of responses acquired via IVR but to advance the cardinal of responses from the types of bodies that adopt IVR.
Ultimately, while the IVR access shows promise, added assay is bare afore it can authorize as a achievable access for the ATP (and, likely, added online panels). In particular, while the accession of IVR would recruit individuals currently underrepresented on the ATP, the admeasurement of IVR as a allotment of absolute respondents is too baby to advisedly advance representation on the ATP. Acknowledgment ante amid individuals who would be added absorbed to acknowledgment in IVR (as against to web) charge to be increased. Also, assay to advance the abundance of the IVR access may include: incentivizing IVR added than web; attached the IVR questionnaires to a subset of the web questionnaire; alone including items for which bent is accepted or doubtable (data from IVR-inclined respondents is best admired if they action answers altered from the web respondents); abbreviation the assay breadth and convalescent achievement rates; or because altered abstracts accumulating protocols such as recruiting via mail and transitioning to IVR afterwards empanelment.
Some advisers accept aloft apropos about poor IVR abstracts quality. Assorted analyses of the abstraction abstracts acknowledge that entering IVR abstracts affection may be acceptable but not as aerial as the abstracts affection empiric in the web survey. However, the allegation are not conclusive. The access of administering was not randomized; individuals could accept in which access they admired to respond. This confounds citizenry differences with access effects. Moreover, the about-face in estimates amid the IVR sample was ample due to the baby sample sizes, attached the adeptness to ascertain accurate differences. Finally, architecture choices in web and IVR were fabricated to aerate abstracts quality. For example, IVR respondents were adapted to accept to all acknowledgment options afore entering an acknowledgment to abate satisficing. To the admeasurement that altered architecture choices are fabricated in added surveys, abstracts affection may differ.
Some respondents are decumbent to adjustment furnishings in self-administered modes. The adjustment of the acknowledgment options was randomized (first to aftermost vs. aftermost to first) for seven variables for both web and IVR. Adjustment furnishings were almost constant amid modes for four of seven variables. However, three variables were affected to ample (over 10 allotment points) adjustment furnishings in IVR that were not empiric amid web responses: abundance with which individuals altercate government and politics, gender, and affair identification. As acclaimed before, the sample sizes for the IVR case counts are baby (approximately 40 per group), so baby changes in the administration (regardless of the significance) can actualize ample allotment point differences. IVR may additionally be added affected to satisficing afterwards in the survey. Added testing with beyond samples, added IVR analysis lengths, and adjustment of the questions is adapted afore added absolute inferences can be drawn. While adjustment furnishings are beneath than ideal, randomization of the acknowledgment adjustment creates babble but can annihilate bent amid these variables. Ultimately, alike if the empiric adjustment furnishings are bent to be real, they can be accounted for and are not insurmountable.
Given the bulk of time it takes to complete an IVR assay (compared with a web survey) and the abridgement of assurance from a alive interviewer, IVR respondents may be added adequate to satisfice, the act of selecting any reasonable acknowledgment option. Two questions were included in both the web and IVR modes to analyze satisficing. Respondents were asked if they acclimated the non-existent amusing media platforms FizzyPress and Doromojo. All respondents should accept called “no,” but three IVR respondents appear application FizzyPress and one appear application Doromojo. These levels of inaccurate advertisement are low, but should be monitored amid a beyond sample size.
There was additionally affair that respondents may be added absorbed to skip questions or baddest an acknowledgment at accidental in IVR because they had absent allotment of the catechism and did not appetite to delay for it to repeat. The closing (select an acknowledgment at random) could not be evaluated. To admeasurement the former, 28 questions fielded to all respondents (both the IVR abbreviate and continued form) were evaluated for account nonresponse. Four had an account nonresponse bulk of 5% or college on IVR; none accomplished that akin on web. A absolute of 11% of IVR respondents banned to accommodate a race. Chase was a “check all that apply” catechism in web that had to be adapted for IVR and became bulky to respondents. Added refinements (for example, “What is your chase or origin? For White, columnist one. For Black or African American, columnist two. For Asian or Asian-American, columnist three. For any added chase or if you are multi-racial, columnist four”) may abate the account nonresponse rate. The nonresponse bulk for adoration (5%) would additionally adequate be bargain by alteration the catechism – specifically, abbreviation the cardinal of acknowledgment options from 12. Assets suffered from aerial nonresponse (6%). However, assets is about the best banned account in U.S. surveys, and this nonresponse rate is well beneath that begin elsewhere. Ideology is the alone catechism for which added analysis may be warranted.
In all, some catechism edits may advice advance the abstracts affection amid IVR respondents. Added testing should be conducted on beyond samples to accommodate added absolute estimates of adjustment effects, misreporting and account nonresponse. But none of the allegation actuality would anticipate IVR from actuality added to the ATP.
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