Whos Asking?: Interviewers, Their Incentives, and Data Quality in Field Surveys
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(0)Overview: In all surveys except self-administered ones, interviewers have a critical role in representing the study to respondents. This white paper by Federal Reserve Board focuses on two sets of behavioral decisions made by interviewers in field surveys that have serious implications for the quality of the data collected. First, there is the decision to apply effort to convince respondents to participate in a survey. Second, there is a potentially large set of decisions interviewers make during the actual administration of an interview.
