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AAPOR Outcome Rate Calculator | Unnamed: 1 | Unnamed: 2 | Unnamed: 3 | This spreadsheet will calculate outcome rates based on AAPOR's Standard Definitions, | Unnamed: 5 | Unnamed: 6 | Unnamed: 7 | Unnamed: 8 | Unnamed: 9 | Unnamed: 10 | Unnamed: 11
Version 3.1 November, 2010 |  |  |  | Version 4 (2009) and earlier. Enter final dispositions in the columns below.
 |  |  |  | For more complete instructions about how to classify final dispositions see the
 |  |  |  | complete Standard Definitions and Elegibility Calculation documents at http://www.aapor.org.
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 | Final
 | Disposition
 | Codes
Interview (Category 1)
Complete | 1.0/1.10 | 806 | 616
Partial | 1.2 |  | 25
Eligible, non-interview (Category 2) | 2
Refusal and breakoff | 2.1 | 142 | 21
Refusal | 2.11
Household-level refusal | 2.111 | 142 | 21
Known-respondent refusal | 2.112 | 251 | 236
Implicit refusal (mail surveys of individuals) | 2.113
Break off/ Implicit refusal (internet surveys) | 2.12 | 33 | 31
Logged on to survey, did not complete any item | 2.121
Read receipt confirmation, refusal | 2.122
Non-contact | 2.2
Respondent never available | 2.21 | 570 | 264
Telephone answering device (confirming HH) | 2.22
Answering machine household-no message left | 2.221 | 30 | 1
Answering machine household-message left | 2.222 | 125 | 34
Respondent unavailable during field period (mail surveys) | 2.25
Respondent unavailable during field period (internet surveys) | 2.26
Completed questionnaire, but not returned during field period (mail and internet) | 2.27
Other, non-refusals | 2.3
Deceased respondent | 2.31 | 0 | 5
Physically or mentally unable/incompetent | 2.32 | 19 | 33
Language problem | 2.33 | 200 | 150
Household-level language problem | 2.331
Respondent language problem | 2.332
No interviewer available for needed language/Wrong language questionnaire | 2.333
Literacy problems (mail surveys) | 2.34
Location/Activity not allowing interview | 2.35
Miscellaneous | 2.36 | 19 | 33
Unknown eligibility, non-interview (Category 3) | 3
Unnown if housing unit/unknown about address | 3.1
Not attempted or worked/not mailed/No invitation sent (internet surveys) | 3.11
Always busy | 3.12 | 150 | 74
No answer | 3.13 | 955 | 518
Answering machine-don't know if household | 3.14 | 27 | 2
Call blocking | 3.15 | 185 | 157
Technical phone problems | 3.16 | 52 | 33
Unable to reach/unsafe area (in-person surveys) | 3.17
Unable to locate address (in-person surveys) | 3.18
Nothing returned (mail surveys) | 3.19
Housing unit, unknown if eligible respondent | 3.2
No screener completed | 3.21 | 774 | 463
USPS: Refused by addressee | 3.23
USPS: Refused to accept | 3.231
USPS: Refused to pay postage | 3.232
USPS: Returned to sender due to various USPS violations by addressee | 3.24
USPS: Cannot be delivered | 3.25
USPS: Illegible address | 3.251
USPS: Insufficient address on mail from one P.O to another P.O. | 3.252
USPS: No mail receptacle | 3.253
USPS: Delivery suspended to to commercial mailing agency | 3.254
Unknown if person is a HH resident/ mail returned undelivered (mail, internet surveys) | 3.3
USPS: Undeliverable as addressed | 3.31
USPS: Attempted -- Addressee not known at place of address | 3.311
USPS: Postal box closed | 3.312
No such address (mail surveys) | 3.313
USPS: No such number | 3.3131
USPS: No such post office in state | 3.3132
USPS: No such street | 3.3133
USPS: Vacant | 3.3134
Not delivered as addressed (mail surveys) | 3.314
USPS: Unable to forward, no deliverable as addressed | 3.3141
USPS: Outside delivery limits | 3.3142
USPS: Returned for better address | 3.3143
USPS: Moved, left no address | 3.32
USPS: Returned for postage | 3.33
USPS: Temporarily away, holding period expired | 3.34
USPS: Unclaimed -- failure to call for held mail | 3.35
USPS: No one signed | 3.36
Returned with forwarding information | 3.4
Returned unopened -- address correction provided | 3.41
Returned opened -- address correction provided | 3.42
USPS: In dispute about which party has rights to deliver | 3.5
Other | 3.9 | 31 | 15
Returned from an unsampled email address (internet surveys) | 3.91
Not eligible (Category 4) | 4
Out of sample - other strata than originally coded | 4.1 | 189 | 143
Fax/data line | 4.2 | 142 | 121
Non-working/disconnect | 4.3
Non-working number | 4.31 | 567 | 349
Disconnected number | 4.32 | 219 | 220
Temporarily out of service | 4.33
Special technological circumstances | 4.4
Number changed | 4.41 | 64 | 35
Call forwarding | 4.43 | 26 | 3
Residence to residence | 4.431
Non-residence to residence | 4.432
Pager | 4.44 | 4 | 1
Cell phone | 4.45 | 5 | 7
Landline phone | 4.46
Nonresidence | 4.5
Business, government office, other organizations | 4.51 | 596 | 419
Institution | 4.52 | 79 | 36
Group quarters | 4.53 | 10 | 8
Person not HH resident | 4.54
Vacant housing unit | 4.6
Regular, vacant residences | 4.61
Regular/Vacation/Temporary residences | 4.62
Other (in-person HH surveys) | 4.63
No eligible respondent | 4.7 | 96 | 254
Quota filled | 4.8 | 0 | 0
Other / duplicate listing (mail surveys) | 4.9 | 49 | 25
Total phone numbers used |  | 6557 | 4353 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
I=[NAME] (1.1) |  | 806 | 616 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
P=Partial Interviews (1.2) |  | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
R=Refusal and break off (2.1) |  | 568 | 309 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
NC=Non Contact (2.2) |  | 725 | 299 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
O=Other (2.0, 2.3) |  | 238 | 221 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
Calculating e:                                                                                                                                             e is the estimated proportion of cases of unknown eligibility that are eligible.  Enter a different value or accept the estimate in this line as a default.  This estimate is based on the proportion of eligible units among all units in the sample for which a definitive determination of status was obtained (a conservative estimate).  This will be used if you do not enter a different estimate.  For guidance about how to compute other estimates of e, see AAPOR's 2009 Eligibility Estimates. |  | 0.5331964407939768 | 0.4755742478162407
UH=Unknown [NAME] (3.1) |  | 1369 | 784 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
UO=Unknown other (3.2-3.9) |  | 805 | 478 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
Response Rate 1
I/(I+P) + (R+NC+O) + (UH+UO) |  | 0.1786743515850144 | 0.2254758418740849
Response Rate 2
(I+P)/(I+P) + (R+NC+O) + (UH+UO) |  | 0.1786743515850144 | 0.2346266471449488
Response Rate 3
I/((I+P) + (R+NC+O) + e(UH+UO) ) |  | 0.2305380505463788 | 0.2975594280900966
Response Rate 4
(I+P)/((I+P) + (R+NC+O) + e(UH+UO) ) |  | 0.2305380505463788 | 0.3096357035807661
Cooperation Rate 1
I/(I+P)+R+O) |  | 0.5 | 0.5260461144321094
Cooperation Rate 2
(I+P)/((I+P)+R+0)) |  | 0.5 | 0.547395388556789
Cooperation Rate 3
I/((I+P)+R)) |  | 0.586608442503639 | 0.6484210526315789
Cooperation Rate 4
(I+P)/((I+P)+R)) |  | 0.586608442503639 | 0.6747368421052632
Refusal Rate 1
R/((I+P)+(R+NC+O) + UH + UO)) |  | 0.1259144313899357 | 0.113103953147877
Refusal Rate 2
R/((I+P)+(R+NC+O) + e(UH + UO)) |  | 0.1624635393428575 | 0.1492627650646751
Refusal Rate 3
R/((I+P)+(R+NC+O)) |  | 0.2430466409927257 | 0.2102040816326531
Contact Rate 1
(I+P)+R+O / (I+P)+R+O+NC+ (UH + UO) |  | 0.3573487031700288 | 0.4286237188872621
Contact Rate 2
(I+P)+R+O / (I+P)+R+O+NC + e(UH+UO) |  | 0.4610761010927576 | 0.5656527439829596
Contact Rate 3
(I+P)+R+O / (I+P)+R+O+NC |  | 0.6897732135216089 | 0.7965986394557824
Notes and general directions:
Data in the gold columns are examples from a real RDD survey; you can enter your final disposition results in the other columns.
Each sampled element in the sample should be assigned a single, final disposition code (e.g., complete, 1.1, or language problem, 2.33).
Enter the total for each of the codes in their appropriate cells in the straw or blue-colored column.
Final disposition codes are mutually exclusive and are constructed to capture fine levels of detail.
Two examples are helpful:  If you know only that the interview was refused in an eligible household,
but nothing else about the call in an RDD survey, the outcome could be coded 2.11; if the interview was refused in
an eligible household by a known respondent, then it could be coded 2.112.  If a more precise code is used, the outcome would
not be entered in a higher-level code.  E.g., once coded 2.112, a final disposition would not appear in both 2.0 and 2.112.
More specific directions for classifying final dispositions for outcomes are in the published version of Standard Definitions.
AAPOR's Standard Definitions Committee recognizes that there are some minor inconsistencies in outcome code labeling between
this version and earlier versions.  Those inconsistencies do not affect outcome rate calculations and will be addressed in the next
version of Standard Definitions. Version 3.1 corrects the calculation for "e" in V. 3.0.
About the calculator
This calculator was developed as a service to the research industry and survey research profession by AAPOR's Standard Definitions Committee.
[NAME] lead a team that designed the original calculator, which also benefitted from [NAME] contributions; Daves rewrote this version
to take additions to Standard Definitions into account.  Questions or suggestions should be addressed to [EMAIL].