Showing papers by "Frauke Kreuter published in 2003"
01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: This article found that the interviewer was responsible for a greater share of the homogenizing effect than was spatial clustering for questions related to fear of crime in one's neighborhood, and that these questions are part of a larger class of survey questions whose subject matter is either unfamiliar to the respondent or otherwise not well anchored in the mind of the respondent.
Abstract: Data used in nationwide face-to-face surveys are always collected in multistage cluster samples. The relative homogeneity of the clusters selected in this way can lead to design effects at the sampling stage. Interviewers can further homogenize answers within the sampling points. The study presented here was designed to separate between interviewer effects and sampling-point effects using interpenetrated samples for conducting a nationwide survey on fear of crime. Even though one might, given the homogeneity of neighborhoods, assume that sampling-point effects would be especially strong for questions related to fear of crime in one’s neighborhood, we found that, for most items, the interviewer was responsible for a greater share of the homogenizing effect than was spatial clustering. This result can be understood if we recognize that these questions are part of a larger class of survey questions whose subject matter is either unfamiliar to the respondent or otherwise not well anchored in the mind of the respondent. These questions permit differing interpretations to be elicited by the interviewer.
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TL;DR: This paper found that interviewers tend to further homogenize answers within the sampling points, and that the interviewer takes a far greater share of the homogenized answers than the spatial clustering does.
Abstract: Inter- viewer Behavior, Survey Sampling Abstract: The data used in empirical social-science research, especially in face-to-face surveys, are often collected in multistage cluster samples. The relative homo- geneity of the clusters selected in this could lead to design eects at the sampling stage. Interview- ers tend to further homogenize answers within the sampling points. The study presented here was de- signed to separate the two sources. Multilevel mod- els had been used to separate interviewer eects and sampling-point eects. Even though one would as- sume that a design eect in questions of "fear of crime in the neighborhood" should be due to spa- tial homogeneity it turned out that, for most of the items, the interviewer takes a far greater share of the homogenized eect than the spatial clustering does.
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