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AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF DATA COLLECTION USING THE INTERNET
Author(s) -
STANTON JEFFREY M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1998.tb00259.x
Subject(s) - data collection , sample (material) , the internet , sampling (signal processing) , missing data , psychology , pencil (optics) , survey data collection , web survey , analysis of covariance , covariance , survey research , statistics , computer science , world wide web , applied psychology , mathematics , engineering , telecommunications , mechanical engineering , chemistry , chromatography , detector
Identical questionnaire items were used to gather data from 2 samples of employees. One sample ( n = 50) responded to a survey implemented on the World Wide Web. Another sample ( n = 181) filled out a paper version of the survey. Analyses of the 2 data sets supported an exploration of the viability of World Wide Web data collection. The World Wide Web data had fewer missing values than the paper and pencil data. A covariance analysis simultaneously conducted in both samples indicated similar covariance structures among the tested variables. The costs and benefits of using access controls to improve sampling are discussed. Four applications that do not require such access controls are discussed.