The Interviewer in the Respondent's Shoes
What Can We Learn from the Way Interviewers Answer Survey Questions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2407529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Celine Wuyts (0000-0002-0693-9217, KU Leuven, corresponding author), Geert Loosveldt (0000-0001-7261-8991, KU Leuven) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 140-153 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CAM (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1087-8513 • E-ISSN: 1552-3969 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1525822x16663162 |
| OpenAlex | W2508791218 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Previous research shows that interviewers to some extent fail to expend the effort that is needed to collect high-quality survey data. We extend the idea of interviewer satisficing to a related task, in which the interviewers themselves answer survey questions. We hypothesize that interviewers who self-administer the questionnaire in a careless manner will also not apply themselves fully to the task of administering survey interviews. Based on interviewer and respondent data from the sixth round of the European Social Survey in Belgium, we find support for some of the hypothesized associations between (suboptimal) response characteristics of interviewers in the "task as respondent" and the same (suboptimal) response characteristics recorded for their respondents, specifically with regard to interview speed, multiple response, and item nonresponse to the household income question
Interview · Quality (philosophy) · Respondent · Satisficing · Task (project management) · Applied Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Power and Status Dynamics · Social Psychology · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
Interaction and the Standardized Survey Interview
Partitioning Variation in Multilevel Models
The Psychology of Survey Response
Satisficing in surveys
Standardized Survey Interviewing
Improvement of the Quality of Responses to Factual Survey Questions by Interviewer Training
Do Respondents Really "Mark All That Apply" On Self-Administered Questions
Does Conversational Interviewing Reduce Survey Measurement Error
Effect of Interviewer Experience on Interview Pace and Interviewer Attitudes
Interviewer Expectation Effects
Maximizing versus satisficing
Hierarchical Regression Models for Interviewer and Respondent Effects
The impact of respondents and interviewers on interview speed in face-to-face interviews
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |