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5 sourced facts about survey design, methods and the technology behind polling, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.
Answerabout 80%
Text-message surveys tend to get very fast responses compared to email or mail surveys.
Source: Online survey research (via Wikipedia) (2020) en.wikipedia.org
Answerthe 1940s
Phone surveys became a dominant method for decades before response rates began declining.
Source: Survey history research (via Wikipedia) (2020) en.wikipedia.org
Answerabout 71%
Mobile data collection eliminates printing, travel, and manual data-entry costs.
Source: Online survey research (via Wikipedia) (2015) en.wikipedia.org
Answerabout 3%
Response rates kept falling as surveys got longer, though the drop-off rate slowed for very long surveys.
Source: Survey methodology research (via Wikipedia), citing SurveyMonkey/Chudoba 2010 (2010) en.wikipedia.org
Answerabout 6%
Keeping surveys short is one of the simplest ways to protect response rates.
Source: Survey methodology research (via Wikipedia), citing SurveyMonkey/Chudoba 2010 (2010) en.wikipedia.org