Make cumulative recruitment‑to‑completion response rate (the product of recruitment response and survey response after attrition) a routine, prominent line in every survey methodology section so readers can assess representativeness at a glance. The single numeric figure complements standard margin‑of‑error and weighting disclosures and highlights long‑term-panel attrition or recruitment shortfalls.
— Standardizing and publishing cumulative response rates would improve public and editorial scrutiny of surveys, making it harder to treat headline percentages as equally credible across different polls.
Pew’s methodology explicitly reports a cumulative response rate of 2% for this ATP wave (June 16–29, 2025) alongside oversample and weighting details, showing the practical value of the metric.