2024 Culture barometer Recognition & Rewards first report.pdf
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… weeks within this three-week period would be the response period they would announce to their staff. After a week, Berenschot shared an update with the participating institutions on the response rate by institution, and most institutions sent out a reminder email. One institution chose not to administer the questionnaire.1 Once the questionnaire had closed, we analysed the data obtained. Response The questionnaire was implemented at 26 institutions, with a total population of 65,142 academic … we noticed that the response rate was significantly higher at institutions where a lot of attention was given to the questionnaire than at institutions that distributed the questionnaire later, gave less time to respond and sent out fewer reminders. Non-response rate Based on the data on non-selected respondents, we identified the extent to which the picture we present in the findings is representative. We compared the respondents who did not complete the questionnaire with those who did. … in a random sample and were able to choose for themselves whether or not to participate in the questionnaire. There is therefore a potential selection bias. Firstly, institutions were able to choose to widely publicise the questionnaire and send a reminder, which improved the response rate. Secondly, we noticed that certain categories of respondents were more likely to complete the questionnaire. These included: • relatively older respondents, • professors, associate professors and assistant …