Investigating Multiple Household Water Sources and Uses with a Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) Survey

The Impact of Computer-assisted Personal Interviewing (capi) on Interviewer Performance: the Cps Experience

1. Introduction For the past several years, the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) have been working on a major redesign of the Current Population Survey (CPS) with the aim of producing both improvements in data quality and savings in time and money (see Butz and Plewes, 1989). Key elements of the redesign include extensive changes to the basic CPS questionnaire, the collect...

Measuring Sexual Risk Using Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI) versus Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) in China

The reliability of self-reports of sexual acts and sexually transmitted disease symptoms was compared among 199 food market workers in an eastern coastal city in China using audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (ACASI) and computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI). Two assessments (ACASI and CAPI) were evaluated with each participant; 100 participants were interviewed with ACASI first, f...

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...

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...