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Activity Number: 652 - Improving Efficiency and Maintaining High Data Quality: Outcomes for the 2017 Survey of Consumer Finances
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 3, 2017 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
Abstract #324571 View Presentation
Title: A Practical Exploration of Relationships Between Physical Barriers to Entry and Successful Contact Attempts
Author(s): Katherine Archambeau* and Rebecca Curtis and Kate Bachtell and Steven Pedlow and Catherine C Haggerty and Kevin Moore and Jesse Bricker
Companies: NORC at the University of Chicago and NORC at the University of Chicago and NORC University of Chicago and NORC at the University of Chicago and NORC University of Chicago and Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Board
Keywords: Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) ; Entry Barriers ; Interviewer Training ; Survey Cooperation
Abstract:

As an in-person data collection endeavor, the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) attempts to reach survey respondents living in all types of housing arrangements. Gated communities and locked buildings are two examples of housing types that present special challenges for SCF interviewers. Both of these residence types have very specific barriers, such as guardhouses, locked gates, and/or doormen, which make it difficult for interviewers to reach potential respondents. In-depth comparisons between types of physical entry barriers and contact success from the 2013 SCF have been presented previously, along with a review of select Census characteristics of geographic areas with various types of barriers. We update these earlier findings with results from the 2016 SCF. We will advance the research by studying the relationship between urbanicity and entry barriers, and our study of Census variables will expand to examine interactions between Census variables. We will also discuss practical applications of our findings for use in future interviewer trainings.


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