Interviewer variance between event history calendar and conventional questionnaire interviews

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 140-153

  Sayles, Harlan ^a   Belli, Robert F ^b   Serrano, Emilio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c John Deere Credit   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949296369     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: 15375331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfp089     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Belli, Robert F., and Mario Callegaro. 2009. "The Emergence of Calendar Interviewing: A Theoretical and Empirical Rationale." In Calendar and Time Diary Methods in Life Course Research, eds. Robert F. Belli, Frank P. Stafford and Duane F. Alwin, pp. 31-52. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2. Belli, Robert F., Eun Ha Lee, Frank P. Stafford, and Chia-Hung Chou. 2004. "Calendar and Conventional Questionnaire Survey Methods: Association Between Interviewer Behaviors and Data Quality." Journal of Official Statistics 20:185-218.
3. Belli, Robert F., William L. Shay, and Frank P. Stafford. 2001. "Event History Calendars and Conventional Questionnaire Surveys: A Direct Comparison of Interviewing Methods." Public Opinion Quarterly 65:45-74.
4. Belli, Robert F., Lynette M. Smith, Patricia M. Andreski, and Sangeeta Agrawal. 2007. "Methodological Comparisons between CATI Event History Calendar and Standardized Conventional Questionnaire Instruments." Public Opinion Quarterly 71:603-622
5. Cardinal, Rudolph N., and Michael R.F. Aitken. 2006. ANOVA for the Behavioral Sciences Researcher. London: Erlbaum.
6. Cohen, Jacob, Patricia Cohen, Stephen G. West, and Leona S. Aiken. 2003. Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences 3rd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
7. Dijkstra, Wil, Jan Smit, and Yfke Ongena. 2009. "An Evaluation Study of the Event History Calendar." In Calendar and Time Diary Methods in Life Course Research, eds. Robert F. Belli, Frank P. Stafford and Duane F. Alwin, pp. 257-275 Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
8. Engel, Lawrence S., Matthew C. Keifer, and Shelia H. Zahm. 2001. "Comparison of a Traditional Questionnaire with an Icon/Calendar-Based Questionnaire to Assess Occupational History." American Journal of Industrial Medicine 40:502-511
9. Fleiss, Joseph L. 1981. Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions 2nd ed, New York: Wiley.
10. Fowler, Floyd J., and ThomasW. Mangione. 1990. Standardized Survey Interviewing: Minimizing Interviewer-Related Error. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
11. Groves, Robert M. 1989. Survey Errors and Survey Costs. New York: John Wiley.
12. Groves, Robert M., and Lou J. Magilavy. 1986. "Measuring and Explaining Interviewer Effects in Centralized Telephone Surveys." Public Opinion Quarterly 50:251-266
13. Houtkoop-Steenstra, Hanneke. 2000. Interaction and the Standardized Survey Interview: The Living Questionnaire. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
14. Kish, Leslie. 1962. "Studies of Interviewer Variance for Attitudinal Variables." Journal of the American Statistical Association 57:92-115.
15. Mangione, Thomas W., Floyd J. Fowler, and Thomas A. Lewis. 1992. "Question Characteristics and Interviewer Effects." Journal of Official Statistics 8:293-307.
16. Ongena, Yfke, Wil Dijkstra, and Jan Smit. 2008. Training and Monitoring Interviewers in Administering CAPI Event History Calendar Instruments. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, New Orleans, LA, USA.
17. Reimer, Maike, and Britta Matthes. 2007. "Collecting Event Histories with TrueTales: Techniques to Improve Autobiographical Recall Problems in Standardized Interviews." Quality and Quantity 41:711-735
18. Schaeffer, Nora Cate, and Douglas W. Maynard. 2002. "Occasions for Intervention: Interactional Resources for Comprehension in Standardized Survey Interviewing." In Standardization and Tacit Knowledge: Interaction and Practice in the Survey InterviewInterview, eds. Douglas W. Maynard, Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra, Nora Cate Schaeffer and Johannes van der Zouwen, pp. 261-280 New York: Wiley.
19. Suchman, Lucy, and Brigitte Jordan. 1990. "Interactional Troubles in Face-to-Face Survey Interviews." Journal of the American Statistical Association 85:232-241
20. van der Vaart, Wander. 2004. "The Timeline as a Device to Enhance Recall in Standardized Research Interviews: A Split Ballot Study." Journal of Official Statistics 20:301-318
21. van der Vaart, Wander, and Tina Glasner. 2007. "Applying a Timeline as a Recall Aid in a Telephone Survey: A Record Check Study." Applied Cognitive Psychology 21:227-238
22. Yoshihama, Mieko, Brenda Gillespie, Amy C. Hammock, Robert F. Belli, and Richard M. Tolman. 2005. "Does the Life History Calendar Method Facilitate the Recall of Intimate Partner Violence? Comparison of Two Methods of Data Collection." Social Work Research 29:151-163