Indirect Monetary Incentives for the 2004 ARMS Phase III Core
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The United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics
Service conducts the annual Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS)
Phase III. Part of this survey’s sample uses a sixteen-page core questionnaire with
mail-out/mail-back data collection and face-to-face nonresponse follow-up. Both
prepaid and promised indirect monetary incentives (i.e., $20 ATM cards) were used
on the 2004 ARMS in order to increase response rates and to reduce costly face-toface
follow-up interviews.
The results showed that both the prepaid and promised incentives significantly
increased the mail and overall response rates, with the prepaid incentives
performing somewhat better. The incentives also succeeded in reducing the overall
data collection costs