Activity Number:
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151
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 12, 2002 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods*
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Abstract - #300535 |
Title:
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Interviewers and Data Quality: Evidence from the 2001 Survey of Consumer Finances
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Author(s):
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Arthur Kennickell*+
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Affiliation(s):
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Federal Reserve Board
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Address:
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Mail Stop 153, Washington, District of Columbia, 20551, USA
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Keywords:
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Data quality ; Interviewer effects ; Survey of Consumer Finances
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Abstract:
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The most obvious pressure on interviewers during a survey is to complete interviews. Comparable efforts to enforce data quality standards are hampered because many of the most important indicators of quality are embedded in the data in ways that are typically very difficult to extract quickly enough to be useful during a survey field period. This paper examines a number of important indicators of data quality, based on the data in the 2001 Survey of Consumer Finances, and uses that information to assess variations over interviewers. Of particular interest is the low correlation across interviewers between some measures of the quality of the data they collected and the rate at which they completed cases. An important point of this paper is the critical need in survey research to construct data quality feedback systems to support timely interventions to maintain data quality.
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