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Wang, Yongyi Krishnamurty, Parvati |
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Interview Mode Effects in NLSY97 Round 4 and Round 5 Presented: Phoenix, AZ, American Association of Public Opinion Research Annual Meeting, May 2004 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Association of Public Opinion Research Keyword(s): Crime; Data Quality/Consistency; Drug Use; Interviewing Method; Self-Reporting; Sexual Behavior; Smoking (see Cigarette Use) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The incidence of telephone interviewing has been increasing in successive rounds of NLSY97. There are concerns about the accuracy of responses to sensitive questions when the interview is conducted by telephone compared to when these questions are self-administered as part of an in-person interview. This study explores the impact of interview mode on respondents' willingness to reveal sensitive information in NLSY97 round 4 and round 5. The dependent measures for this study include sex behavior, smoking, drug use, destroying, stealing, attacking and arrest. Within each round, controlling for the differences in demographic characteristics, respondents tend to underreport negative behaviors on most SAQ items when interviews are conducted by telephone. They are also less willing to respond to these sensitive questions, resulting in more missing data. We also linked the two rounds together by looking at how individual respondents responded to the same questions in round 4 and round 5. The results show that for respondents who did not switch interview mode across rounds, the distributions of response differences do not differ much regardless of whether the interviews were conducted consistently in-person or by phone. If the respondents did switch interview modes across rounds, the distribution of response differences are significantly different for some sensitive items, depending on whether the switch is from in-person to phone or the other way round. This evidence also supports the existence of interview mode effects. |
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Wang, Yongyi and Parvati Krishnamurty. "Interview Mode Effects in NLSY97 Round 4 and Round 5." Presented: Phoenix, AZ, American Association of Public Opinion Research Annual Meeting, May 2004. |