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Activity Number: 415
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 9, 2006 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #307202
Title: Interviewer Burden and Its Effects on Data Quality in the Swedish Part of the European Social Survey (ESS)
Author(s): Lilli Japec*+
Companies: Statistics Sweden
Address: Box 24300, Stockholm, 115 81, Sweden
Keywords: interviewer interest ; interviewer satisficing ; multilevel regression analysis ; probing
Abstract:

I introduce the concepts of interviewer burden and interviewer satisfying. The effects of interviewer burden, behavior, attitude and attributes are studied using the data from the Swedish part of the European Social Survey (ESS). Multilevel regression analysis is used to study the effects on a number of data quality indicators such as response rate, length of interview, probing frequency and "don't know frequency." The results show that the interviewer burden affects all the data quality indicators analyzed in this study.

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