Arbeitspapier
The role of the interviewer in producing mode effects: Results from a mixed modes experiment comparing face-to-face, telephone and web administration
The presence of an interviewer is hypothesised to motivate respondents to generate an accurate answer and reduce task difficulty, but also to reduce the privacy of the reporting situation.The prevalence of indicators of satisficing (e.g., non-differentiation, acquiescence, middle categories, primacy and recency, and item nonresponse) and socially desirable responding were studied experimentally across modes and also through cognitive interviewing. Results show differences between interviewer and self-completion modes: in levels of satisficing for non- differentiation, acquiescence, and middle categories and socially desirable responding. There were also unexpected findings of a CATI primacy/positivity bias and of different ways of satisficing.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2014-20
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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Mode Effects
Interviewer presence
Satisficing
Primacy
Recency
Middle category effects
Non-differentiation
Social desirability
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hope, Steven
Campanelli, Pamela
Nicolaas, Gerry
Lynn, Peter
Jäckle, Annette
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Colchester
- (when)
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2014
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hope, Steven
- Campanelli, Pamela
- Nicolaas, Gerry
- Lynn, Peter
- Jäckle, Annette
- University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Time of origin
- 2014