EQLS 2007 - Methodology: response rate

European Quality of Life Surveys (EQLS)
2007

The following table shows the response rate for 30 countries.  The table does not contain figures for Sweden where all pre-recruitments were done by telephone. Details on the causes of the differences in response across countries are given in the EQLS Technical Report.

EQLS 2007 Response rate (%)

RO 88.0   LV 55.6
BG 82.2   SI 54.4
IE 81.7   FI 53.0
PT 78.6   HR 51.6
SK 77.2   LT 51.3
MK 74.7   NO 45.0
MT 73.3   ES 44.8
DE 71.6   LU 43.7
AT 66.4   DK 43.4
HU 65.1   IT 43.3
CZ 64.2   PL 41.9
EE 62.2   FR 39.9
TR 61.0   NL 36.7
CY 60.9   EL 33.9
BE 58.1   UK 33.5