Computer-Assisted, Self-Interviewing (CASI) Compared to Face-to-Face Interviewing (FTFI) with Open-Ended, Non-Sensitive Questions

Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing: A Method of Capturing Sensitive Information

IASSIST Quarterly Introduction This paper firstly will review the literature with a view to describing the current state of the art of CAI, secondly it will describe a Scottish housing project which used CAPI and consider the quality of data output, and thirdly, it will draw conclusions about the use of CA(P)I on the basis of the authors’ own findings but also placing the discussion in its wide...

Consistency in the reporting of sensitive behaviors by adolescent American Indian women: a comparison of interviewing methods.

Computer-assisted interviewing techniques have increasingly been used in program and research settings to improve data collection quality and efficiency. Little is known, however, regarding the use of such techniques with American Indian (AI) adolescents in collecting sensitive information. This brief compares the consistency of AI adolescent mothers' reporting of sensitive sexual and drug use ...

Application of computer-assisted interviews to sexual behavior research.

Collection of sensitive data with the use of video-enhanced, computer-assisted, self-administered interviews (V-CASI) has the potential to reduce interview bias and improve the validity of the study. The purpose of this study was to compare responses to sensitive questions elicited by V-CASI and by face-to-face interview (FTFI) methods. Women attending a New Orleans, Louisiana, public family pl...

Operational and Quality Issues with Computer Assisted Interviewing for ADAM

The Feasibility of Computer-Assisted Survey Interviewing in Africa: Experience from Two Rural Districts in Kenya

This paper explores the use of an audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) methodology in a household survey of adolescents in two districts of Kenya. Computer software was developed as part of a research project comparing audio-CASI with traditional methods of interviewing about sensitive behaviors, including sexual initiation, risky sexual behavior, coerced sex, and drug and alc...