Exam 14: Fieldwork: Data Collection

All interviewers should use the same format and conventions to record the interviews, but should alter their way of editing completed interviews to ensure variety and coverage.

When evaluating field workers, the interviewer's time should be broken down into actual interviewing, travel, and administration.

Coding of fieldwork means verifying that field workers are submitting authentic interviews.

The first step in the fieldwork process is the selection of field workers.

For structured questions, frequent occurrence of nonresponse items is an indicator that should be used to evaluate an interviewer on the quality of interviewing.

Aptitude is the interviewer characteristic described as "is honest and behaves ethically at all times."

Pride is the interviewer characteristic described as "empathizes with a respondent and tailors the presentation accordingly."

To evaluate interviewers on the quality of interviewing, the supervisor ________.

Which of the following interviewer characteristics is described as "has a natural affinity for telephone research-enjoys collecting opinions via the telephone"?

The first step in the fieldwork process is ________.

To validate the study, the supervisors call ________ of the respondents to inquire whether the field workers actually conducted the interviews.