Recruiting Respondents to the Survey Interview

招募调查访谈受访者

• 批准号: 0550705
• 负责人: Douglas Maynard
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0550705&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recruiting; Respondents; Survey; Interview

SES- 0550705Douglas MaynardUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonDeclining participation in survey interviews is a problem of urgent importance for much social science, and refusals account for an increasing proportion of nonresponse. In recent times, the difficulty of reaching potential respondents to request participation has increased, and these respondents are more likely to say they do not have time and/or that they are not interested. This research will complete a systematic inquiry into how response rates might be improved for computer-aided telephone surveys (CATIs) by identifying effective interviewer practices for soliciting survey participation. By applying the well developed procedures of conversation analysis (CA) to the data opportunity provided by the digital recordings of the 2004 administration of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), the PI will develop coding tools to specify and measure how expertly introductions to surveys are done and how well they are tailored. From this, in a larger quantitative investigation, the research will estimate the extent to which different kinds of interviewer expertise and tailoring influence survey participation rates. The aim of the study is to better understand the moment-to-moment contingencies involved in obtaining survey participation.The research combines both qualitative and quantitative investigation and is relevant to a number of social science and methodological areas, include sociology, social psychology, conversation analysis, survey methodology, and statistical modeling. The research has the potential to provide input for social psychological experimentation both in the lab and in the field and develop interaction coding instrumentation, and codes and processes that could potentially aid in increasing survey response rates through interviewer selection and training. Increasing response rates in surveys will lower survey costs and lead to samples that are more generalizable to wider populations.

道格拉斯·梅纳德威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校对许多社会科学来说，减少参与调查访谈是一个迫切重要的问题，而拒绝占不回应的比例越来越大。最近，联系潜在受访者要求参与的难度增加了，这些受访者更有可能说他们没有时间和/或他们不感兴趣。这项研究将完成一项系统的调查，即如何通过确定有效的采访者的做法来提高计算机辅助电话调查（CATIs）的回复率。通过将完善的对话分析（CA）程序应用于2004年威斯康星纵向研究（WLS）管理的数字记录所提供的数据机会，PI将开发编码工具，以指定和衡量如何专业地介绍调查以及如何进行调整。由此，在更大的定量调查中，研究将估计不同类型的采访者专业知识和剪裁对调查参与率的影响程度。这项研究的目的是为了更好地理解获得调查参与所涉及的时刻到时刻的突发事件。这项研究结合了定性和定量调查，涉及许多社会科学和方法论领域，包括社会学、社会心理学、对话分析、调查方法论和统计建模。该研究有可能为实验室和现场的社会心理学实验提供输入，并开发交互编码工具，以及通过采访者选择和培训可能有助于提高调查回复率的代码和流程。提高调查的回复率将降低调查成本，并使样本更普遍地适用于更广泛的人群。