The effect of sociodemographic (mis)match between interviewers and respondents on unit and item nonresponse in Belgium

Vercruyssen, Anina; Wuyts, Celine; Loosveldt, Geert

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.02.007

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“…We chose to work with female interviewers because gender matching (especially female interviewers with female study participants) has been shown to improve survey participation. 47 Furthermore, our study participants are mostly interviewed in intimate circumstances (they may be wearing pyjamas, may not be wearing traditional headscarves and might breastfeed during the interview). Also, our study population includes many women of Muslim culture, who might consider childbirth to be a matter that concerns women only.…”

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Mothers’ experiences of perinatal care in Belgian public hospitals: exploring the social inequalities. Protocol for a cross-sectional survey

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IntroductionIn Europe, the social inequalities in perinatal health are usually found to be to the disadvantage of non-European immigrants and women with lower levels of education and income. Among the possible underlying mechanisms are inadequate access to healthcare services and suboptimal care. To explore this hypothesis in the Belgian context, our research will describe detailed maternal socioeconomic and migration characteristics, explore how these factors relate to each other, and how they relate to women’s perinatal care trajectories and experiences of care.MethodsUsing a modified version of the Migrant-Friendly Maternity Care Questionnaire, we will survey 900 mothers of Belgian nationality or a nationality from a North or Sub-Saharan African country, and having given birth in four maternity wards in Brussels. The questionnaire has been adapted to the study objectives and the Belgian context. Interviewers will administer the 116-item questionnaire to all women agreeing to participate and meeting inclusion criteria, within 14 days of having given birth. Clinical information will be extracted from hospital records.AnalysisWe will estimate the associations of women’s socioeconomic and migration characteristics with:Women’s antenatal care trajectories (timing of first antenatal consultation, minimum recommended number of consultations, and problems accessing care).Obstetric practices such as episiotomies, emergency caesarean sections, and inductions.Patient experience such as feelings of discrimination, respect, and understanding of information.We will use descriptive statistics, multiple correspondence analysis, and simple and multiple logistic regressions.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval has been obtained from the hospital Ethics Committees and from the Université libre de Bruxelles (No: P2017/055/B406201730877). Written informed consent will be sought from all participants.In addition to disseminating findings and recommendations to the scientific community through open-source journal articles and conferences, we will also address local organisations and healthcare professionals via a written report and seminars.

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Mothers’ experiences of perinatal care in Belgian public hospitals: exploring the social inequalities. Protocol for a cross-sectional survey

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“…Additionally, the supervisors of data collection at SESRI trained the data collectors properly and provided them with step-by-step instructions for conducting interviews successfully with the selected families. The interviewers were gender-matched with the respondents as recommended by Vercruyssen, Wuyts, and Loosveldt in face-to-face surveys (Vercruyssen et al, 2017). To reduce method biases as was recommended by Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Lee, and Podsakoff especially at the response stage, the trained interviewer "assured respondents that there are no right or wrong answers and that they should answer questions as honestly as possible"(Podsakoff et al, p.888).…”

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Determinants of Parental Child’s School Preferences in Qatar

El-Kassem

Sellami

Al-Qassass

2019

HSSR

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Purpose: The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of “Quality Education”, “Developing Better Social Skills”, “Homework Assignment”, “Using Private Tutors”, “Charging School Fees” and “Nationality” on “Parental School Preference” using primary data collected from preparatory and secondary school teachers in Qatar. Methodology: The population for this study consists of all parents in Qatar. The current study used a very large stratified sample size n = 1462 that was determined by the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) using a 95% confidence interval estimate. The nine items used in this study are part of a huge questionnaire measuring attitude and parental child’s school preferences. Kaisers-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test and the Bartless test of sphericity were used to determine the appropriateness of using factor analysis. What are more; principal axis factoring and oblique rotation extracted three factors? Main findings: The representative sample Factor analysis extracted three dimensions (quality education, developing better social skills, homework assignment). The dependent variable (parental school choice) was regressed on the factor scores of these three extracted dimensions in addition to four independent variables (school fees, nationality, repeating a school grade, and parents’ disappointment if their child doesn’t go far in school). The results revealed that parental school choice is significantly determined by three explanatory variables: the quality of education, school fees, and nationality. Implications: Raising standards for teachers should be a key element in educational quality. What’s more, in the spirit of findings the policymakers in Qatar should make funding part of school fees for expatriates a priority. Novelty: This article empirically correlates two main fields of educational research: Parental School Choice is given Quality of Education, Charging School Fees, and Nationality.

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“…(But cf. Goudy -Potter 1975) The derived homogeneity hypothesis seems to hold particularly for ethnicity (Ghane et al 2010), education (Durrant et al 2010), and gender (Vercruyssen et al 2017), especially with respect to certain survey topics in which these characteristics are relevant and in which a mismatch between interviewer and interviewee may produce a systematic bias. (Huddy et al 1997;Liu -Stainback 2013;Freeman -Butler 1976;Johnson -Delamater 1976; but see Johnson -Moore 1993) In other cases, the results of matching/homogeneity are indecisive.…”

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Who Should Interview Older People? The Effect of Interviewer and Interviewee Characteristics in Surveys of Older People and Aging Topics

Vidovičová¹,

Doseděl²

2018

sociologia

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Who Should Interview Older People? The Effect of Interviewer and IntervieweeCharacteristics in Surveys of Older People and Aging Topics. Objectives: Aging of the population has increased the need to gain a better understanding of older people's experiences, especially by collecting their views on various issues and quantitative surveys are frequently used methods. Methods: Five hypotheses are presented on assumption that the characteristics of the respondent and the characteristics of the interviewer (age and gender) significantly affect the interviewer's perceived difficulty in conducting the interview with respondents in higher age on aging related topics. Pooled data from seven quantitative surveys are used to test these hypotheses with multi-level linear regression. Results: Results show that age of interviewers increases the perceived difficulty only slightly if we control for the influence of the gender of the interviewer and the respondent's age and education. Also, more positively aging respondents make the interviews about aging topic easier for interviewers. These influences vary in each of the survey projects and topic. Discussion: Age-and gender-sensitive training and supervision when age/gender sensitive topics are to be surveyed is, according to our results here, strongly advisable.

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The effect of sociodemographic (mis)match between interviewers and respondents on unit and item nonresponse in Belgium

Cited by 21 publications

References 32 publications

Mothers’ experiences of perinatal care in Belgian public hospitals: exploring the social inequalities. Protocol for a cross-sectional survey

Mothers’ experiences of perinatal care in Belgian public hospitals: exploring the social inequalities. Protocol for a cross-sectional survey

Determinants of Parental Child’s School Preferences in Qatar

Who Should Interview Older People? The Effect of Interviewer and Interviewee Characteristics in Surveys of Older People and Aging Topics

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