Which Incentives to Increase Survey Response of Secondary School Pupils?

Increasing participation rates in pupil surveys has become an important challenge for empirical educational research. In this paper we investigate whether combining a monetary incentive with a personalised invitation to participate in a survey increases the response rate of secondary school pupils. It is found that pupils who receive a personalised invitation and a monetary incentive are not more likely to participate, nor to participate more quickly following the invitation, than those who received a nonpersonalised invitation and a monetary incentive.

Sprietsma, Maresa (2016), Which Incentives to Increase Survey Response of Secondary School Pupils?, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-071, Mannheim.