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Public Opinion Quarterly 56:475-495 (1992)
© 1992 American Association for Public Opinion Research

UNDERSTANDING THE DECISION TO PARTICIPATE IN A SURVEY

ROBERT M. GROVES, ROBERT B. CIALDINI and MICK P. COUPER

The lack of full participation in sample surveys threatens the inferential value of the survey method. We review a set of conceptual developments and experimental findings that appear to be informative about causes of survey participation; offer an integration of that work with findings from the more traditional statistical and survey methodological literature on nonresponse; and, given the theoretical structure, deduce potentially promising paths of research toward the understanding of survey participation.


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