MEMORY, COMMUNICATION, AND DATA QUALITY IN CALENDAR INTERVIEWS
MEMORY, COMMUNICATION, AND DATA QUALITY IN CALENDAR INTERVIEWS
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DOI：
10.1093/poq/nfs099
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Al Baghal, Tarek
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作者：
Belli, Robert F.;Bilgen, Ipek;Al Baghal, Tarek
日历工具被假设为通过增加使用检索线索和旨在澄清含义的会话探针来提高数据质量。本研究通过检验检索和会话言语行为以及数据质量测量之间的关联来探讨这些假设。口头行为编码方案适用于165个日历访谈，收集生活过程中的信息，从受访者的居住，婚姻，就业和失业的收入动态面板研究（PSID）的成绩单。验证性因素分析揭示了三个潜在因素的采访者（检索探针，融洽的行为，旨在满足问卷目标的会话行为）和三个潜在因素的受访者（检索策略，融洽，会话行为表示被采访的困难）。回顾性日历报告与PSID中收集的长达30年的报告之间的年度总数差异与可用年份总数的比率被用作数据质量的衡量标准。回归分析表明，行为的水平和经验的复杂性的水平在其对数据质量的影响相互作用。访问者和受访者的检索行为与更好的数据质量时，检索任务是更困难的，但较差的准确性时，经验的复杂性低。面试官和受访者的融洽行为与减少错误的复杂的就业历史，但传达与婚姻和失业的历史混合的结果。访谈者的对话和受访者的困难被采访行为的结果模式同样不一致。结果并不完全证实假设，但仍然有关于采访实践的影响，并为未来的研究方向提出建议。
Calendar instruments are hypothesized to promote data quality through the increased use of retrieval cues and conversational probes intended to clarify meanings. This research explores these hypotheses by examining the associations between retrieval and conversational verbal behaviors and data-quality measures. A verbal behavior coding scheme was applied to transcripts of 165 calendar interviews that collected life-course information on residence, marriage, employment, and unemployment from respondents in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Confirmatory factor analyses revealed three latent factors for interviewers (retrieval probes, rapport behaviors, and conversational behaviors intended to satisfy questionnaire objective) and three latent factors for respondents (retrieval strategies, rapport, and conversational behaviors indicative of difficulty being interviewed). Ratios of discrepancies in annual totals between retrospective calendar reports and reports collected for up to thirty years in the PSID over the total number of available years were used as measures of data quality. Regression analyses show that the level of behavior and the level of experiential complexity interact in their effect on data quality. Both interviewer and respondent retrieval behaviors are associated with better data quality when the retrieval task is more difficult but poorer accuracy when experiential complexity is low. Both interviewer and respondent rapport behaviors are associated with reduced error for complex employment histories but convey mixed results with marriage and unemployment histories. Patterns of results for interviewer conversational and respondent difficulty being interviewed behaviors are likewise inconsistent. Results do not completely confirm hypotheses but nevertheless have implications regarding interviewing practice and suggest directions for future research.