When Follow-Ups Are Planned with Mail Surveys

question 44

Multiple Choice

When follow-ups are planned with mail surveys:

• A) response bias is not an issue
• B) the anonymity of respondents is not guaranteed
• C) the response rate increases
• D) none of the above

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Definitions:

Modernization

The process of economic change, whereby developing societies acquire some of the social and political characteristics of Western industrial societies; five subprocesses are involved: technological development, agricultural development, urbanization, industrialization, and telecommunication.

Western Development

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