E-mail versus Web survey response rates among health education professionals.

From: American Journal of Health Studies | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Brown, Stephen L.; Kittleson, Mark J. | Copyright information

Abstract: To determine whether there is a difference in response rate from a survey given via e-mail or the Web, 600 professional health educators were divided into two groups. Three hundred received an e-mail survey and 300 were sent an e-mail asking them to go to a Web page to complete a survey. No statistically significant differences were found in the response rate between the two groups. The Web survey had a 48% response rate whereas the e-mail survey had a 43% response rate. T...

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