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Greenleaf, Abigail R.; Turke, Shani R.; Bazié, Fiacre; Sawadogo, Nathalie; Guiella, Georges; Moreau, Caroline – Field Methods, 2021
A growing body of literature in low- and middle-income countries is challenging the long-held assumption that the respondent and interviewer should be strangers. We conducted a qualitative study in Burkina Faso comprised of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions to explore interviewers' experiences of collecting data on sexual and…
Descriptors: Interviews, Familiarity, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
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Lipps, Oliver – Field Methods, 2019
Specific interviewer characteristics, interviewer continuity, or matching interviewer and household characteristics may increase cooperation, especially for difficult-to-convince households. In face-to-face surveys, unobserved heterogeneity often makes a proper analysis of interviewer effects impossible. Although surveys conducted in telephone…
Descriptors: Interviews, Telephone Surveys, Cooperation, Participant Characteristics
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West, Brady T.; Kreuter, Frauke – Field Methods, 2015
Face-to-face household surveys sometimes ask field interviewers to record observations about selected characteristics of all sampled housing units. Some surveys ask interviewers to record judgments about potential respondents to serve as proxy measures of key variables. Past studies have shown that these judgments are prone to error, which has…
Descriptors: Interviews, Participant Characteristics, Accuracy, Observation
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Antoun, Christopher; Zhang, Chan; Conrad, Frederick G.; Schober, Michael F. – Field Methods, 2016
The rise of social media websites (e.g., Facebook) and online services such as Google AdWords and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offers new opportunities for researchers to recruit study participants. Although researchers have started to use these emerging methods, little is known about how they perform in terms of cost efficiency and, more…
Descriptors: Social Media, Web Sites, Recruitment, Users (Information)
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Cernat, Alexandru; Lynn, Peter – Field Methods, 2018
This article is concerned with the extent to which the propensity to participate in a web face-to-face sequential mixed-mode survey is influenced by the ability to communicate with sample members by e-mail in addition to mail. Researchers may be able to collect e-mail addresses for sample members and to use them subsequently to send survey…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Mail, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Mass Media Role