noun phrase · academic
response rate
UK/rɪˈspɒns reɪt/US/rɪˈspɑːns reɪt/re·SPONSe RATE
the percentage of people invited to a survey who actually respond
Examples
“Low response rates can threaten the validity of survey results.”
“Efforts to increase the response rate included follow-up reminders.”
“Researchers reported a response rate of 62% after two reminders.”
Band 8 sentence
“To mitigate bias we reported both the response rate and analysed differences between respondents and non-respondents.”
Collocations
- increase the response rate
- low response rate
- calculate the response rate
Word family
Common mistakes
response ratio→response rate
a low answer rate→a low response rate
Say it for a higher band
5answer rate→6participation rate→7+response rate
Synonyms
participation rate
Easily confused
participation rate
“The participation rate in the experiment was high, but the response rate for the follow-up survey was low.”
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