 Nonresponse in an Individual Register Sample Telephone Survey in Lucerne (Switzerland)Olive Lipps and
Kathrin Kissau
Chapter 13 in Telephone Surveys in Europe, 2011, pp 187-208 from Springer Abstract: Introduction Surveying people on the telephone has a number of advantages compared to face-to-face interviews, especially if the survey is carried out by telephone centres (Häder 2009): ∙ Large samples can be realized within short periods. ∙ It is easy to call households that are difficult to access frequently. ∙ Monitoring interviewers (defining cases as ineligible, interviewing the actually sampled individuals, conducting the interview according to defined protocols, etc.) is easy. ∙ The influence of third persons is likely to have no or only minor effects. ∙ Interviewer effects are likely to be smaller. ∙ The fear of letting an interviewer into the house does not play a role in telephone surveys. ∙ Many face-to-face surveys need (regional) clustering of sample cases which causes design effects over and above those caused by interviewers who work (regional) sample points. The consequence is that a higher number of interviews are necessary in face-to-face surveys to obtain the same precision. Keywords: Telephone Number; Language Problem; European Social Survey; Civil Status; Sample Member (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-25411-6_13 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25411-6_13 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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