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Abstract #303124

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Activity Number:	365
Type:	Contributed
Date/Time:	Wednesday, August 10, 2005 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor:	Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #303124
Title:	Comparison of Telephone versus Face-to-face Response in the U.S. Consumer Expenditures Survey
Author(s):	David McGrath*+
Companies:	BAE Systems
Address:	2 Massachusetts Ave NE, Washington DC, DC, 20212, United States
Keywords:	Mode ; Telephone ; Survey ; Expenditures
Abstract:	Although the Consumer Expenditures (CE) Quarterly Survey was designed to collect data from households by personal visit, about 41% of the households provide their expenditures data over the telephone. Recently, the CE program began recording the mode of data collection, allowing the first analysis of the mode's impact on expenditures data. Currently, we know little about why interviewers and households choose the telephone for response. In this paper, we examine the geographic, economic, and demographic characteristics associated with telephone respondents. White, non-Hispanic, highly-educated people who own their homes are responding to the CE survey by the telephone at the highest rates. We model expenditures data and observe the coefficient for the dummy mode variable along with other predictors of expenditures. Regression models show the effect of the mode of data collection on total expenditures to be negligible, although telephone data are allocated and imputed at higher rates than personal visit responses.

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