Personal versus telephone surveys for collecting household health data at the local level.

Abstract

Personal and telephone interview surveys were conducted simultaneously during 1981 in the same area (four counties in the area of Tampa Bay, Florida) and utilizing the same interview schedule. Following completion of the surveys, validity checks were made with the medical providers reported by a subsample of respondents to each mode. The telephone survey yielded a lower response rate but cost less than half the personal interview. There was some evidence of nonresponse bias in the telephone survey, and some relatively minor differences in responses were found between

Re-victimization patterns in a national longitudinal sample of children and youth

“…The interviews with parents and youth were conducted over the phone by the employees of an experienced survey research firm specially trained to talk with children and parents. Telephone interviewing is a cost-effective methodology (Weeks, Kulka, Lessler, & Whitmore, 1983) that has been demonstrated to be comparable in reliability and validity with in-person interviews, even for sensitive topics (Bajos, Spira, Ducot, & Messiah, 1992;Bermack, 1989;Czaja, 1987;Marin & Marin, 1989). The methodology is also used to interview youth in the US Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey (Bureau of Justice Statistics, various years), and in a variety of other epidemiologic studies of youth violence exposure (Hausman, Spivak, Prothrow-Stith, & Roeber, 1992).…”

Kid's stuff: The nature and impact of peer and sibling violence on younger and older children

“…Interviews with parents and youth were conducted by telephone by the employees of an experienced survey research firm. Telephone interviewing is a cost-effective methodology (Weeks, Kulka, Lessler, & Whitmore, 1983) that has been demonstrated to be comparable in reliability and validity with in-person interviews, even for sensitive topics (Bajos, Spira, Ducot, & Messiah, 1992;Bermack, 1989;Czaja, 1987;Marin & Marin, 1989). The methodology is also used to interview youth in the US Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey (Bureau of Justice Statistics, various years) and in a variety of other epidemiological studies of youth concerning violence exposure (Hausman, Spivak, Prothrow-Stith, & Roeber, 1992).…”

Coverage Error Typology in Telephone Survey

“…Первая генеральная совокупность может быть представлена поквартирными опросами, вторая -телефонными опросами. Такой же подход использовался коллективом авторов исследовательского центра RTI из Северной Каролины [Weeks et al, 1983 Группа нетелефонизированных респондентов, объем которой составляет 5,7% от всей выборки, смещает результаты в распределениях переменных не более чем на 1,2%, что и принимается нами за оценку ошибки покрытия (табл. 4).…”

“…Наибольшее смещение обнаружено по возрасту, образованию, типу населенного пункта, по остальным показателям смещение меньше. В исследовании коллектива авторов из Северной Каролины ошибка покрытия не превышает 3% [Weeks et al, 1983] Ошибка покрытия в малых группах, специфических категориях населения Мы установили, что ошибка покрытия по переменным, связанным со статусом пользования телефонной связью, невелика: она варьирует в пределах 1,1-1,2%. Эта ошибка определяется как разность соответствующих долей для всего населения и для телефонизированного населения.…”