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Moving to Online Data Collection
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Data collection was conducted via phone from 2000 to 2010. In 2011, data
collection moved to an online survey.
Reasons for switching to an Internet method included:
– Increased Internet usage among citizens.
– Better access to citizens via online (compared to poor production via
telephone).
– Convenience and ease of online interviewing for respondents, which
allowed them to take time in order to give thoughtful answers on key
questions (as opposed to somewhat spontaneous answers given the time
limit in a telephone survey).
– Lower cost and faster timing.
A potential negative effect of switching methodologies is that comparability
with previous waves may be lost to some extent (especially for the first year).
– As anticipated, the first online wave in 2011 showed various changes
related to the data‐collection method, but the 2012, 2014, 2015, and
2016 waves are on similar levels with natural year‐to‐year fluctuations.
That is expected to continue as we maintain online data collection in the
future.
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