Toolkit 05: Door knocking as a method of recruiting a sample

Katherine Davies, Realities/Morgan Centre, University of Manchester, July 2008

Summary

This toolkit explores the practice of recruiting participants for an interview study by knocking on doors in the chosen fieldsite. It outlines the benefits of this recruitment method and gives some tips on how to put doorknocking into practice in your study.

• Door knocking toolkit 
• Living Resemblances project

This toolkit refers to some sample documents:

• Leaflet used before door knocking
• Accompanying letter used with leaflet
• Leaflet used to increase the number of male respondents