Explain How Response Rates Are Determined for Surveys and Discuss

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Essay

Explain how response rates are determined for surveys and discuss ways to increase response rates for mail surveys.

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Definitions:

Standard Error

The statistical metric that represents the dispersion within a sample's distribution, often applied to the average.

Population Proportion

The share or fraction of a population that exhibits a particular attribute or characteristic.

Population Proportion

The ratio of members in a group that have a characteristic of interest to the total number of individuals in the population.

Sample Proportion

The fraction or percentage of the sample that has a particular property or characteristic.