Caroline,
Thanks for the thoughtful response! I suspect that the context of form may
play a greater role than number of fields. Applying for a loan vs. Sign in
to an instant message program.
Thanks for the lead on survey research!
b v
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Caroline Jarrett
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The survey literature does contain some studies that examine the
number of questions and the density of questions and there is a
moderate relationship between the number of questions and response
rates; however, as Caroline notes, motivation and other factors play a
role. There is some discussion
Looking back at it, any answer you uncover is going to be very situation
dependent. It probably won't be broadly applicable.
There might be a weak correlation between form fields and completion, but
not in the sense that increasing fields by 'x' will tend to result in 'y'
dropoff. You would also
From: visual hokie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Does anyone have (or can point me to) any data, research, or articles that
: demonstrate the relationship between number of form fields and completion
: rate?
: Thanks!
:
: brian
Hi Brian
I don't know of any specific research on this problem in the forms
