ERIC ED241596: Interviewer Effects on Responses of pdf

ERIC ED241596: Interviewer Effects on Responses of

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Using data collected through telephone interviews with a national sample of adults, this study searched for evidence as to whether interviewers have stronger effects on the responses given to a wide range of questions by older people than on the responses of younger people. Responses to 30 items for which significant interviewer effects had earlier been reported were examined. Significant age-by-interviewer interactions were detected for eight of the 30 items. The set of eight items included both interviewer observations and the direct responses of interviewers, and, among the latter, responses to both open- and closed-ended questions. Older and younger respondents were examined separately to determine the nature of the age-by-interviewer interactions. No pattern was found for the interviewer observations, but for the direct responses to questions, the median interviewer effect was more than twice as strong for older respondents as for younger respondents. Based on all the evidence from this study, it appears that older respondents may be somewhat more susceptible to interviewer effects than younger respondents.

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• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 11/20/1983
• Year: 1983
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Adults, Age Differences, Interviews, Older Adults, Reliability, Research Methodology, Research Problems, Surveys

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