A Practical Technique for Improving the Accuracy of Interviewer Observations of Respondent Characteristics

Autor/inn/en	West, Brady T.; Kreuter, Frauke
Titel	A Practical Technique for Improving the Accuracy of Interviewer Observations of Respondent Characteristics
Quelle	In: Field Methods, 27 (2015) 2, S.144-162 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-822X
DOI	10.1177/1525822X14549429
Schlagwörter	Interviews; Participant Characteristics; Accuracy; Observation; Housing; National Surveys; Intervention; Predictor Variables + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung; Unterkunft; Prädiktor
Abstract	Face-to-face household surveys sometimes ask field interviewers to record observations about selected characteristics of all sampled housing units. Some surveys ask interviewers to record judgments about potential respondents to serve as proxy measures of key variables. Past studies have shown that these judgments are prone to error, which has negative implications for survey estimators in terms of the bias and variance introduced by nonresponse adjustments based on the judgments. Practical techniques for reducing these errors are therefore needed. This article analyzes an intervention implemented in the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth. The intervention was designed to provide field interviewers with observable predictors of a key auxiliary variable for which they were recording observations. The analysis shows evidence of a significant improvement in the quality of the observations. The article concludes with a discussion of directions for future work in this area. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01