Rewards are useful as an extra incentive for people to take surveys, and monetary incentives are almost always the most effective at reducing the rate of non-responders (with some caveats, but that's another topic). However, in Lebanon, services such as PayPal don't exist, and the vast majority of Lebanese don't engage in online shopping with their credit/debit cards or prepaid internet cards anyway. Rewarding participants is therefore not a quick or straightforward procedure.
I'm designing a survey (non-geek subject matter, sorry) and here are my survey design goals:
• Online only.
• Completely anonymous; no personally identifying information is collected or shared.
• Upon completion, participants should be provided with a code or voucher which they should be able to redeem offline for cash or other desirable things of monetary value, e.g. lunch/dinner at X restaurant (although cash is most preferred).
• Non-response and failure to redeem shouldn't incur an unnecessary financial loss. In other words, if for whatever reason I get no participants or the participants choose not to redeem the codes, then I shouldn't lose the money.
I'm currently struggling to find such a local redemption system. I've considered purchasing a set of OMT numbers, but as far as I know those aren't anonymous (you have to provide your name as well as receiver names) and they cost money upfront which can be lost in case of non-response (I've never used OMT personally, so I could be wrong).
Anyone have any ideas on how to make this work?
I'm designing a survey (non-geek subject matter, sorry) and here are my survey design goals:
• Online only.
• Completely anonymous; no personally identifying information is collected or shared.
• Upon completion, participants should be provided with a code or voucher which they should be able to redeem offline for cash or other desirable things of monetary value, e.g. lunch/dinner at X restaurant (although cash is most preferred).
• Non-response and failure to redeem shouldn't incur an unnecessary financial loss. In other words, if for whatever reason I get no participants or the participants choose not to redeem the codes, then I shouldn't lose the money.
I'm currently struggling to find such a local redemption system. I've considered purchasing a set of OMT numbers, but as far as I know those aren't anonymous (you have to provide your name as well as receiver names) and they cost money upfront which can be lost in case of non-response (I've never used OMT personally, so I could be wrong).
Anyone have any ideas on how to make this work?