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Table 4 Costs

From: Does a monetary incentive improve the response to a postal questionnaire in a randomised controlled trial? The MINT incentive study

  

Number

 

Cost

Incentive

No incentive

Randomised

 

1070

1074

Initial mailing (printing, envelope, postage)

£1.25

1070

1074

Incentive

£5

1070

0

Repeat copy of mailing (printing, envelope, postage)

£1.25

504

577

First follow-up phone call

£0.90

808

844

Second follow-up phone call

£0.90

497

578

Telephone data collection – unsuccessful

£1.09

396

472

Telephone data collection – successful

£6.54

101

115

Questionnaire returned

£0.52

810

738

Cost per participant randomised

 

£9.35

£4.64

Cost per questionnaire returned

 

£12.35

£6.76