Event history calendars and question list surveys - A direct comparison of interviewing methods
Event history calendars and question list surveys - A direct comparison of interviewing methods
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DOI：
10.1086/320037
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发表时间：
2001-03-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Stafford, FP
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作者：
Belli, RF;Shay, WL;Stafford, FP
本文中报告的研究提供了事件历史日历（EHC; N = 309; 84.4%的响应率）和标准化的最先进的问题列表（Q列表; N = 307; 84.1%的响应率）访谈方法之间的第一个直接实验比较。受访者和20名受访者被随机分配到EHC和Q-列表访谈，通过电话在1998年春天进行。所有访谈都要求对1996年和1997年期间发生的社会和经济行为进行回顾性报告。使用的数据从相同的受访者收集1年前的事件报告在1996年作为一个标准的比较，1996年事件的回顾性报告的质量进行了评估，从1998年的管理EHC和Q列表访谈。与Q列表相比，EHC条件导致了更高质量的回顾性报告，包括移动，收入，失业周数，以及因自身疾病，他人疾病或因这些原因与其他原因相结合而失去工作的周数。对于家庭成员进入住所的报告和工作数量，EHC导致比Q列表多得多的报告。在对更广泛的参考期和不同的访谈模式进行额外研究的基础上，EHC可能成为一种可行的、潜在上级Q列表的方法，用于收集自我报告的回顾性信息。
The research reported in this article provides the first direct experimental comparison between Event History Calendar (EHC; N = 309; 84.4 percent response rate) and standardized state-of-the-art question list (Q-list; N = 307; 84.1 percent response rate) interviewing methodologies. Respondents and 20 interviewers were randomly assigned to EHC and Q-list interviews that were conducted via telephone in the spring of 1998. All interviews asked for retrospective reports on social and economic behaviors that occurred during the calendar years of 1996 and 1997. Using data from the same respondents collected 1 year earlier on events reported during 1996 as a standard of comparison, the quality of retrospective reports on 1996 events from the 1998 administration of EHC and Q-list interviews was assessed. In comparison to the Q-list, the EHC condition led to better-quality retrospective reports on moves, income, weeks unemployed, and weeks missing work resulting from self illness, the illness of another, or missing work for these reasons in combination with other ones. For reports of household members entering the residence, and number of jobs, the EHC led to significantly more overreporting than the Q-list. Contingent on additional research that examines a wider range of reference periods and different modes of interviewing, the EHC may become a viable and potentially superior method to the Q-list in the collection of self-reported retrospective information.