Are Reluctant Respondents More Racially Conservative?
Evidence that reluctant respondents are more racially conservative is mixed. The Pew Research Center’s 1997 non-response study found that the most difficult to interview respondents were slightly more racially conservative than those easier to interview (Pew Research Center 1998). But a follow up study conducted in 2003 found no such pattern. To evaluate this notion in the context of the 2008 campaign, we conducted a recontact survey of hard-to-reach households from earlier survey samples. To do so, we constructed a sample of landline telephone numbers based on households that had either refused to be interviewed or where at least five call attempts had been made with no completion in polls conducted by Pew Research between January and May 2008. The recontact interviews were conducted July 31-August 10, 2008, with 1,000 respondents. Results from these interviews were compared with a new national survey conducted at the same time among a landline sample of 2,254 respondents. In the gene
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