When I bought my license last month I kept waiting for the vendor to ask me HIP questions. It never happened. When they handed me the license, I asked about doing the HIP survey and I was told that they "did it for me". By that time it was too late to redo the survey (electronically).
Is this a common practice? If so, what are these people typing in for the HIP survey (0)? It's not that I shot a lot of birds last year, but I could see where this practice could end up with under-reporting what was killed.
HIP survey questions skipped?
HIP survey questions skipped?
Well, it's more common than it should be. What happened is the clerk answered the first question, "Did you hunt migratory birds last year" for you by typing in "NO". That way, she didn't have to ask you all the other questions, it saved her time and effort, and made the line move faster if there was one.
That has been a big problem with HIP providers. I don't know about Mississippi, but in Louisiana, the retailer is paid for each HIP registrant so when behavior like what you saw is reported, the DWF attempts to correct it.
As far as the data are concerned, the effect of not answering the HIP registration questions probably isn't much of a problem. The questions you answer when you register for HIP are NOT the harvest data. Those questions are used to stratify hunters into high, medium, and low-kill catagories so that a better sample can be selected. Once a sample is selected, the actual data comes from a questionnaire survey that is sent to the home of selected hunters.
More importantly, those questions identify which species of birds a hunter tends to kill. In the past, the only surveys of dove or woodcock harvest came on the back of the waterfowl harvest surveys and thus only those hunters that killed both waterfowl and dove/woodcock were included in the dove/woodcock estimates. From the answers to the HIP registration questions, we can now select a sample of hunters for the dove/woodcock survey whether they ever killed a duck or not.
That has been a big problem with HIP providers. I don't know about Mississippi, but in Louisiana, the retailer is paid for each HIP registrant so when behavior like what you saw is reported, the DWF attempts to correct it.
As far as the data are concerned, the effect of not answering the HIP registration questions probably isn't much of a problem. The questions you answer when you register for HIP are NOT the harvest data. Those questions are used to stratify hunters into high, medium, and low-kill catagories so that a better sample can be selected. Once a sample is selected, the actual data comes from a questionnaire survey that is sent to the home of selected hunters.
More importantly, those questions identify which species of birds a hunter tends to kill. In the past, the only surveys of dove or woodcock harvest came on the back of the waterfowl harvest surveys and thus only those hunters that killed both waterfowl and dove/woodcock were included in the dove/woodcock estimates. From the answers to the HIP registration questions, we can now select a sample of hunters for the dove/woodcock survey whether they ever killed a duck or not.
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