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Mahfoud, Ziyad; Ghandour, Lilian; Ghandour, Blanche; Mokdad, Ali H.; Sibai, Abla M. – Field Methods, 2015
Findings on the reliability and cost-effectiveness of the use of cellular phones vis-à-vis face-to-face interviews in investigating health behaviors and conditions are presented for a national epidemiological sample from Lebanon. Using self-reported responses on identical questions, percentage agreement, ? statistics, and McNemar's test were used…
Descriptors: Telephone Surveys, Interviews, Surveys, Responses
Pantal, Michel-Ange; Podgursky, Michael; Ehlert, Mark; Hull, Angela M. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2008
Salaries and benefits for instruction are the largest component of school operating costs for public schools (U.S. Department of Education 2007). The level and structure of this compensation can play an important role in the recruitment and retention of a high-quality teaching workforce. Thus, detailed and reliable data on teacher pay and benefits…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Salaries, Teacher Employment Benefits, Teacher Recruitment
de Leeuw, Edith Desiree – 1992
Three major methods of survey research, face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews, and mail questionnaires, are compared with respect to the quality of the data. The literature on experimental comparisons of these methods is reviewed, and the effects of the mode of data collection on aspects of data quality are examined. The effects of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Foreign Countries
Ouimet, Judith A.; Hanson, Gary R. – 1997
Historically, data have been collected from survey participants through a paper-and-pencil questionnaire or through interviews in person or on the telephone. This study compares the use of a new approach, interactive telephone data collection (ITDCT) to traditional paper-and-pencil collection. ITDCT administers survey items through a digitized…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection, Educational Technology
Collins, Mary A.; Brick, J. Michael; Kim, Kwang; Stowe, Peter – 1997
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) is a data collection system of the National Center for Education Statistics that is designed to provide information on educational issues that can best be studied through contacting households rather than educational institutions. This report compares the information collected through telephone…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis
Nolin, Mary Jo; Collins, Mary A.; Vaden-Kiernan, Nancy; Davies, Elizabeth – 1997
This report compares selected estimates from the 1996 National Household Education Survey (NHES:96) with estimates from previous NHES collections, the Current Population Survey (CPS), and other relevant data sources. The comparisons provide an indication of the reasonableness of selected NHES:96 estimates. Where discrepancies were found between…
Descriptors: Adults, Census Figures, Children, Citizen Participation
Condelli, Larry; Padilla, Vince; Angeles, January – 1999
The National Reporting System project was designed to establish an outcome-based accountability system for the state-administered, federally funded adult education program. In the pilot test, volunteer states and their local programs compared the feasibility and costs of these three data collection models: (1) local programs collect all the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Legal)
Hoffman, Lee McGraw; Levine, Roger – 1991
As a step in considering the addition of dropout statistics to the Common Core of Data (CCD) collected by the National Center for Education Statistics, telephone and personal interviews about the feasibility of implementing a standard national dropout statistics collection were conducted. Interviews were held from May through September of 1990…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Agency Role, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
Rasor, Richard E.; Barr, James – 1998
This paper provides an overview of common sampling methods (both the good and the bad) likely to be used in community college self-evaluations and presents the results from several simulated trials. The report begins by reviewing various survey techniques, discussing the negative and positive aspects of each method. The increased accuracy and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection