Question 1

According to the text, interviewer cheating can be minimized through pretesting of the questionnaires.

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Question 2

To validate the study, the supervisors call 30 to 40 percent of the respondents to inquire whether the field workers actually conducted the interviews.

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Question 3

Coding of fieldwork means verifying that field workers are submitting authentic interviews.

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Question 4

Sampling control helps respondents focus on the specific content of the interview and provide only relevant information.

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Sampling control is a method used in research to select a representative group from a larger population for the purpose of obtaining more manageable, yet accurate, data. It does not directly influence respondents' focus or the relevance of the information they provide during an interview.

Question 5

The supervisor should ask a complex and sensitive survey question when validating an interview with a respondent.

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Asking complex and sensitive questions can make respondents uncomfortable and may lead to inaccurate responses or refusal to answer, which is not conducive to validating an interview.

Question 6

The general rule for recording answers to unstructured questions is to record the responses verbatim.

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The general rule for recording answers to unstructured questions is to record the responses verbatim, word-for-word, as they were given by the respondent. This helps to capture the nuances and details of their responses that may be missed if the answer is paraphrased or summarized.

Question 7

Training ensures that all interviewers administer the questionnaire in the same manner so that
the data can be collected uniformly.

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Training is important to ensure standardized and consistent administration of the questionnaire by interviewers. This helps to minimize potential sources of bias and ensures the reliability and validity of the data collected.

Question 8

An important aspect of supervision is sampling control, which attempts to ensure that the interviewers are strictly following the sampling plan rather than selecting sampling units based on convenience or accessibility.

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Sampling control is an important aspect of supervision that attempts to ensure that the interviewers are strictly following the sampling plan rather than selecting sampling units based on convenience or accessibility. This statement is true.

Question 9

Validating the interview is recognized as a phase of the interviewing process.

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Question 10

According to the text, the typical interviewer is a single woman aged 18 to 34, with an above-average education and an above-average household income.

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The text does not provide information about the typical interviewer's gender, age, education, or household income.

Question 11

Supervision of field workers involves coding of questionnaires.

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Supervision of field workers typically involves overseeing their work, ensuring data quality, providing guidance, and addressing issues that arise during data collection. Coding of questionnaires is a part of data processing, not supervision.

Question 12

All interviewers should use the same format and conventions to record the interviews, but should alter their way of editing completed interviews to ensure variety and coverage.

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While all interviewers should use the same format and conventions to record interviews to ensure consistency and accuracy, they may need to edit completed interviews differently to provide variety and comprehensive coverage. The editing process may vary based on the interviewer's approach and the specific content of each interview.

Question 13

Field workers are generally paid an hourly rate or on a per-interview basis.

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Field workers are usually paid an hourly rate or on a per-interview basis.

Question 14

To understand the interviewers' problems, the supervisors should do some interviewing.

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By doing some interviewing themselves, supervisors can gain firsthand experience of the challenges and issues that interviewers may face. This can help them provide better support and guidance to their team members, and also identify any areas for improvement in the interviewing process.

Question 15

To evaluate interviewers on the quality of interviewing, the supervisor must directly observe the interviewing process.

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Direct observation is necessary to evaluate the quality of interviewing. Other methods such as reviewing transcripts or asking for feedback from interviewees may provide some insight, but observing the interview in person is the most reliable method.

Question 16

Central office control involves tabulating the responses to important demographic characteristics and key questions.

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Central office control is a method used in survey research to ensure that data collected from different survey locations are consistent and comparable. This involves tabulating the responses to key questions and important demographic characteristics to manage and monitor data quality.

Question 17

A motivational technique used when asking survey questions to induce the respondents to enlarge on, clarify, or explain their answers and to help the respondents focus on the specific content of the interview is called probing.

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Probing is a common motivational technique used in survey interviews to encourage respondents to provide more detailed or specific answers. This can help researchers to better understand the attitudes, behaviors, and opinions of the survey population. Probing can involve asking follow-up questions, providing feedback, and using other techniques to facilitate a deeper and more meaningful discussion with the respondents.

Question 18

To validate the study, the supervisors call 1 percent to 10 percent of the respondents to inquire whether the field workers actually conducted the interviews.

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