Social environmental influences on survey cooperation are explored using data from six national household surveys in the United States matched to 1990 decennial census data. Consistent with the past literature on prosocial behavior, cooperation rates in these six surveys are found to be lower in urban, densely populated, high crime rate areas. Measures of social… Continue reading Social environmental impacts on survey cooperation

Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) is an increasingly popular method of data collection for large-scale household surveys of the general population. Despite its widespread use in the United States and abroad, little research has been done on the effect such a new technology may have on those people most directly involved in the process of data… Continue reading Interviewer Attitudes Toward Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI