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The purpose of this paper is to present a two-step survey method of commuting to work and its main results on the example of the city of Bialystok. The survey has numerous methodological limitations and is very complex. The authors compare the range of influence of the city in 1983-2005 and describe the structure of daily commuting to work. Despite a number of methodological assumptions, the presented method seems to be a valuable tool for studying daily journeys to work, especially since there are no detailed data related to this issue.
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Since 1968, when the Prague Institute for Public Opinion Research under the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences made its first research on the perception of history in the whole Czechoslovakia, in Slovakia, there have been a large number of similar researches on a representative sample of Slovak population. Very diverse results require careful interpretation of research results, mainly for two reasons. Firstly, the methodology of questioning is apparently important. When using open questions, respondents tend to choose a period of time, which is closer to them, more or less related to their personal experience. When using closed questions, that contain a set of stimuli selected from various historical events or periods, a too large variedness of such lists turned out to be a fundamental problem of interpretation, because it decreases the possibility of precise comparison. Secondly, problems with the interpretation of results from several researches are due to different wording of questions, because they measure the same phenomenon only seemingly. A more detailed look on methodology indicates that seemingly comparable methods are in fact asking different questions. Despite different difficulties with the research of changes in opinion on history, a strong and continuing positive judgment of some historic events has turned out.
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Online surveys and experiments are increasingly common, yet they usually suffer from low response rates. However, some examples prove it is possible to design a study motivating people to participate and obtaining a satisfactory response rate. Such aspects of Internet research as choice of the population to investigate, organization of the study, mode and content of invitation to participation, and incentives for participants are discussed due to their importance for the response rate. Numerous methodological experiments, including some studies undertaken by the authors are reviewed. Detailed recommendations regarding motivating participants and increasing response rate are given.
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Eurobarometer surveys provide the European Commission with information on public attitude and reaction on EU activities. They are a tool of great importance for the EU information policy. The case study described in this article focuses on information problems related to the European Parliament elections. The article focuses on 5 topics: awareness of the European Parliament and European elections, turnout, profiles of voters and non-voters and evaluation of information campaigns. Recommendations of Eurobarometer researchers point out weak points of past campaigns and suggest future improvements although data analysis leads to conclusions that information activities aiming at encouraging voters to attend elections are a kind of “mission: impossible”. Rather by any failure in information activities, this is caused by the power and importance of the European Parliament in EU institutional structure.
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This paper addresses two questions: 1) Do improve repeated contact attempts with hard-to-get respondents in face-to-face surveys the response rate significantly? 2) Do they improve the sample composition? The data used to answer these questions is taken from the European Social Survey round 7 (2014/15) in Poland. That survey, conducted in accordance with a rigorous research design (highly motivated interviewers, two advance letters, incentives for respondents, repeated contact attempts with hard-to-get respondents etc.) achieved a response rate of 65.8%. The findings from our analysis indicate that repeated contact attempts do improve the response rate by more than 20 percentage points. The initial response rate, calculated for easy-to-get respondents, was merely 45.3%. The final response rate was mostly increased thanks to contact attempts with hard-to-reach respondents whereas refusal conversions played a much smaller role. This finding is in line with the results obtained in other studies. Generally speaking, the results of the analysis presented in this paper suggest that the standard face-to-face survey research design, which assumes no more than two contact attempts with the sampled persons, poses a risk for the representativeness of the achieved sample; certain categories of respondents will be overrepresented while others will be underrepresented. This risk can be considerably reduced thanks to multiple contact attempts. Our analysis demonstrates that repeated contact attempts with hard-to-get respondents bring the benefit not only of an increase in the response rate but also of an improvement in the sample composition.
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