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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 29.
Published in final edited form as: Proc Am Stat Assoc. 2012;2012:4648–4660.

Table 3.

Percentage of All First Dials Resulting in Cooperative Contacts, Refusals/Hang-ups, and Business Contacts by Day of Week and Time of Day

Day of Week Time of Day Landline Cell
Cooperative Contact Refusal/Hang-up Business Cooperative Contact Refusal/Hang-up Business
Weekdays (Monday – Thursday) Morning 7.1% 6.7% 3.4% 9.5% 11.1% 0.6%
Afternoon 7.6% 7.3% 3.2% 10.6% 12.1% 0.6%
Evening 8.4% 8.7% 1.5% 10.7% 12.8% 0.4%
Night 8.8% 9.9% 0.9% 9.7% 12.5% 0.3%
Friday Morning 7.5% 6.7% 3.7% 9.4% 10.9% 0.5%
Afternoon 7.0% 7.7% 3.1% 10.3% 13.0% 0.6%
Evening 8.2% 9.0% 1.4% 10.3% 12.9% 0.4%
Night 7.6% 9.3% 0.7% 9.9% 13.1% 0.3%
Saturday Morning 6.6% 7.0% 1.3% 10.6% 12.2% 0.1%
Afternoon 7.7% 8.0% 1.1% 9.8% 13.5% 0.3%
Evening 7.5% 8.3% 0.9% 10. 7% 13.5% 0.4%
Night 8.2% 9.7% 0.7% 9.8% 13.0% 0.4%
Sunday Morning 8.3% 9.1% 0.7% Omitted2
Afternoon 7.6% 8.7% 0.8% 9.3% 13.7% 0.2%
Evening 8.4% 9.5% 0.8% 10.0% 14.4% 0.2%
Night 8.7% 10.1% 0.5% 9.4% 12.5% 0.3%
2

Note that the results for Sunday morning first dials to cell sample lines are omitted here because the sample sizes were very small.