Beschreibung

"In face-to-face surveys, interviewers take on many key tasks. They contact households and target persons, encourage them to participate in the survey and conduct standardized interviews. In some cases, however, interviewers may deviate from specified guidelines when performing this task, which in turn can affect the quality of the data. In order to minimise the risk of deviant interviewer behavior in interviews, data quality controls are implemented throughout the entire survey period of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees (Brücker et al. 2017). This enables follow-up interviewer training and feedback discussions, and to identify anomalies at an early stage. Such controls have been in place since the first survey wave (see Kosyakova et al. 2019, Olbrich et al. 2020). Through the use of these quality controls, it was found that some interviews did not meet the high-quality standards of the survey. Several analyses indicated that a total of three interviewers had failed to carry out individual interviews properly. It was therefore decided to remove these interviews from the dataset. This decision was taken in close cooperation with the project partners (IAB, BAMF, and SOEP) as well as the survey organisation (infas). The following report documents this decision and presents the findings that led to this decision being taken." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))