Interviewer and Respondent Survey Quality Effects in a Cati Panel

Question order and interviewer effects in CATI scale-up surveys

The scale-up estimator is a network-based estimator for the size of hidden or hard to count subpopulations. Several issues arise in the public health context when the aim is the estimation of injuries occurring in a certain population, where two common problems are present: (a) Small injuries are usually difficult to observe and rarely reported in the official data and (b) people are not always...

Explaining interviewer effects and respondent behavior: Theoretical models and empirical analysis

The behavior of respondents in interview situations has been dealt on the one hand with respect to many empirical studies and on the other hand in connection with different theoretical approaches (Hyman 1954; Cannell & Kahn 1968). In this paper the most relevant theoretical explanations are discussed and systematized from the point of view of the theory of reasoned action (Ajzen & Fishbein 1980...

Organizational Effects of Cati in Small to Medium Survey Centers

Interviewer Effects in an Environmental Valuation Telephone Survey

We investigate interviewer effects in a random digit dial telephone survey of recycling valuation and behavior. Lack of market experience with environmental goods may cause respondents to be more prone to interviewer effects during valuation surveys. Following previous research in both psychology and survey methodology, we test the direct effects of interviewer gender and race, as well as the i...

Who’s Asking? Interviewer Coethnicity Effects in African Survey Data

Face-to-face interviews constitute a social interaction between interviewer and respondent, and in the African context, social interactions are strongly shaped by ethnicity. Yet research using African survey data typically fails to account for the effect of shared ethnicity on survey responses. We find that respondents give systematically different answers to coethnic and noncoethnic interviewe...