Access Panels and Online Research: Panacea or Pitfall?
Stoop, Ineke / Wittenberg, Marion
In the previous century, survey data were often collected from random samples from the population. Respondents were questioned in face-to-face, via telephone interviews, or by mail questionnaires. Nowadays, in many polls, people are invited to express their opinion through the Internet. Is this technological progress or a methodological hornets nest or both? In October of 2006, the Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) organied a sympos...