Separating interviewer and sampling-point effects

Beschreibung

"The data used in empirical social-science research, especially in face-to-face surveys, are often collected in multistage cluster samples. The relative homogeneity of the clusters selected in this could lead to design effects at the sampling stage. Interviewers tend to further homogenize answers within the sampling points. The study presented here was designed to separate the two sources. Multilevel models had been used to separate interviewer effects and sampling-point effects. Even though one would assume that a design effect in questions of 'fear of crime in the neighborhood' should be due to spatial homogeneity it turned out that, for most of the items, the interviewer takes a far greater share of the homogenized effect than the spatial clustering does." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Zitationshinweis

Kreuter, Frauke & Rainer Schnell (2002): Separating interviewer and sampling-point effects. In: American Statistical Association (Hrsg.) (2002): Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section, American Statistical Association (2002) : papers presented at the 57th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research and World Association for Public Opinion Research, S. 3132-3133.