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Conclusions derived from the session on: Framing of questionnaires and techniques of data collection (French)

The papers presented during this session used a large number of concrete examples to analyse the techniques of framing questionnaires and made specific recommendations intended for the experts. It might be of advantage to continue with a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Author: Jacques Durand

June 15, 1973

Questionnaire design for the personal interview

This paper approaches designing of questionnaires for the personal interview from the point of view of attempting to illustrate ways in which the questionnaire designer can make the interviewer's task less difficult. It starts off by explaining why...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Author: J. M. Bowen

October 1, 1973

The self-administered questionnaires with interviewer's assistance (French)

The self-administered questionnaire in which the interviewee fills-in himself the questionnaire with the interviewer's assistance, is one of the various methods of data-collection in sample-surveys. In order to situate the self-administered...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Author: Hugues Jacquart

Company: IFOP

October 1, 1973

Goals, possibilities and problems of good sampling procedures (German)

Whenever sampling procedures for selecting the persons to be interviewed are used in empirical social research this is done in order to build models of the population by means of which the interesting phenomena can he studied. The size ratio between...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Author: Klaus P. Landgrebe

June 15, 1973

Problems of quota definition for non-random surveys

The first part of this paper attempts to enumerate the problems which face the sampling practitioner when he has to select the criteria typifying non-random populations samples. His choice is made in the light of the aims of the survey concerned and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Author: Marc Deroo

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

October 1, 1973

Advantage of non-proportional stratified sampling for periodical press readership surveys

These notes explain the method of sampling used for the Magazine Readership Survey carried out in Italy this year (ISPI, 1973 edition). The ISPI survey is a sample survey based on 21,000 interviews. It has been carried out each year since 1966 for...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Author: Carlo Erminero

Company: Demoskopea

June 15, 1973

Use of introductory letters for telephone interviews

As the number of private telephone subscribers increases (in September 1973, 57 % of all households in the Netherlands had home telephones), interviewing by telephone of samples of private persons is becoming a thing of the present or of the near...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Author: T. H. M. van Kooten

June 15, 1973

The self-administered questionnaires with interviewer's assistance

The self-administered questionnaire in which the interviewee fills-in himself the questionnaire with the interviewer's assistance, is one of the various methods of data-collection in sample-surveys. In order to situate the self-administered...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Author: Hugues Jacquart

Company: IFOP

October 1, 1973

Experience of a computer system for the quality control of interviewers

This paper describes a method of using the computer, as a stage of the checking process, to look for interviewers, who have cheated or deviated from the specified instructions. The method is simple and has often been recommended, but to our knowledge...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Authors: R. King, P. Trotman

Company: Nestlé

October 1, 1973