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BRADBURN, NORMAN M. FRANKEL, MARTIN R. BAKER, REGINALD P. PERGAMIT, MICHAEL R. A Comparison of Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI) with Paper-and-Pencil Interviews (PAPI) in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth NLS Discussion Paper No. 92-2. Washington DC: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 1991. Also: http://stats.bls.gov/ore/abstract/nl/nl910010.htm Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 3453 Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor In discussions of mode effects, the survey methodology literature distinguishes three modes of data collection-face-to-face, telephone and self-administered. There is an extensive literature on possible effects of collecting data by each of these modes because they appear to differ in fundamental ways. What has been less noticed, however, is that there are variations within each of these methods regarding whether or not they are computer-assisted; that is, whether the questionnaire is represented in electronic or paper-and-pencil form. There is a paucity of literature on within-mode effects of using computers to assist in the data collection process. We examined the differences for 139 variables between CAPI and PAPI cases in an experiment where assignments had been made randomly to mode of administration. Except for effects on interviewer errors that were programmed into the CAPI itself, in all of these comparisons we found only 4 differences that looked as if they might even approach statistical significance. This number is within the number that one might expect by chance when making multiple comparisons. There are a few differences, however, that deserve further study before rejecting them. Search returned 1 items. Search Start: 17:29:27 Search Finish: 17:29:27
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