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The effect of interviewer personality, skills and attitudes on respondent co-operation with face-to-face surveys

This paper examines the role of interviewers' experience, attitudes, personality traits and inter-personal skills in determining survey co-operation. We take the perspective that these characteristics influence interviewers' behaviour and hence influence the doorstep interaction between interviewer and sample member. We use a large sample of 842 face-to-face interviewers working for a major survey institute and analyse co-operation outcomes for over 100,000 cases contacted by those interviewers over a 13-month period.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2011-14

Classification
Wirtschaft
Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
Subject
non-response
interviewer survey
Big Five personality traits
Meinungsforschung
Befragung
Persönlichkeitspsychologie
Kooperation

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Jäckle, Annette
Lynn, Peter
Sinibaldi, Jennifer
Tipping, Sarah
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
(where)
Colchester
(when)
2011

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Jäckle, Annette
  • Lynn, Peter
  • Sinibaldi, Jennifer
  • Tipping, Sarah
  • University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Time of origin

  • 2011

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