Methodologies for internet surveys and other telesurveys

Following the telephone survey, which has become the major mode of collection in the sample survey field, other modes of advanced telecommunication, such as e-mail, Internet, videophone, fax and mobile phones are fast becoming important supplements and even competitors to the fixed line telephone. We examine their potential for survey work, the methodological implications of their use and consider the possibility to extend methodologies developed for telephone surveys to other modes of telecommunica tions. Suitable methodologies have to be developed to deal with the problems arising from the short-term developments in communications technology. These are basically mixed mode and multiple frame surveys to ensure virtually complete coverage