# kaal:claim:2150377-014

**Claim.** Persistent multi-channel follow-up, by fax, e-mail, and telephone, yielded ninety-four completed surveys, a 7.42% response rate from a population of 1267, which is substantially higher than response rates in prior surveys of this industry.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- population of 1267 registered private fund advisers
- data collected within three months of March 30, 2012

**Source quote.**

> This procedure proved successful and yielded ninety-four completed surveys, a response rate of 7.42% of a population of 1267. This response rate is substantially higher than the response rate of prior surveys in a related context.175

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Hedge Fund Manager Registration Under the Dodd-Frank Act* (2012), B. Sample Size and Sampling Constraints

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Hedge Fund Manager Registration Under the Dodd-Frank Act (2012). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2150377

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**Topics.** empirical-evidence, research-methods, private-funds, law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** response-rate, survey-methodology, sample-size, hedge-fund-advisers, empirical-legal-studies

**Superseded by.** A later claim revises this one. Prefer quoting: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2732915-005

**Related claims.**

- supported_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2739479-017

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