Behavior Coding of October 2017 Agricultural Labor Survey

Heather Ridolfo, David Biagas, Emilola J. Abayomi and Joseph Rodhouse

No 322827, NASS Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Abstract: In 2016, cognitive testing of the Agricultural Labor Survey’s computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) script detected a number of issues with the questions used to categorize workers. As a result, revisions were made to the CATI script and a field test was conducted to compare performance of the revised script to the original CATI script. Behavior coding was also performed on a subset of interviews conducted using the original and revised versions of the survey. The goal of the behavior coding was to evaluate interviewer behavior across the two versions of the survey. Results of the behavior coding showed that neither of the instruments were administered appropriately at an acceptable rate. However, questions designed to categorize agricultural workers into major categories and subcategories were administered as worded more often when interviewers used the revised instrument.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 276
Date: 2020-09
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.322827

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