Abstact: Many members of the International Sociological Association's RC33, Research Committee "Logic and Methodology", contributed information and contacted other interested researchers to have them contribute to this "interviewer/data quality" thematic issue. Several contributions of different types from France, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands are included below.
Jörg-Peter Schräpler , Gert G. Wagner, "Identification, characteristics and impact of faked interviews in surveys: an analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP", DIW Diskussionspapiere 392, Berlin2003, 34 pp.
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Jost Reinecke, "Regelmässigkeiten des Interviewverhaltens", 1998 , in Statistisches Bundesamt, Interviewereinsatz und-qualifikation, Wiesbaden.
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Rainer Schnell, "Besuchs- und Berichtsverhalten der Interviewer", ibid.
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Joop Hox, Edith de Leeuw and Ger Snijkers, "Fighting nonresponse in Telephone interviews: Successful interviewers tactics", in Achim Koch and Rolf Porst (editors), Proceedings of the Eight International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse, 24-16, September 1997, ZUMA, Mannheim, pp. 173-185.
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Patrick Sturges and Pamela Campanelli, "The effect of interviewer persuasion strategies on refusal rates in household surveys", ibid., pp. 187-200.
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Edith de Leeuw, Joop Hox, Ger Snijkers and Wim de Heer, "Interviewer opinions, attitudes and strategies regarding survey participation and their effect on response", ibid., pp. 239-248.
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Geert Loosveldt, Ann Carton and Jan Pickery, "The effect of interviewer and respondent characteristics on refusals in a panel survey", ibid., pp. 249-262.
