Achieving a good response rate is a goal in every survey. Response rate has also become an interesting academic debate. On one side Hunt (1990) maintains that since marketing is a social science, where most of the time researchers are interested in examining relationships rather than determining...

The Workplace Employment Relations Survey series is a tremendously useful source of datafor industrial relations researchers. But, like all large-scale secondary datasets, it has anumber of design problems. These have not been articulated previously in much depth.Looking at the 2004 instalment...