SY280 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Main Diagonal, Determinism, Job Satisfaction
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Reduces error due to variation in the asking of questions. Intra- interviewer variability: an interviewer is not consistent in asking questions or recording answers, either with different respondents or the same. Inter-interviewer variability: more than one interviewer not consistent with one another, question types, closed. Facilitate the processing of data: closed-ended. Attach a different number to each category of answer: coding frame, pre-coded, fixed choice, rules for assigning answers to categories, coder varies over time in applying the rule. Inter-coder variability: coders differ in how to categorize the same answer. Interview contexts: traditional, more than one interviewer or interviewee. Interviewer asks series of questions and writes down answers. Unusual because of the considerable cost involved in dispatching 2 or more people to interview someone. Qualitative research generally: telephone interview, advantages. Reduce bias: remoteness of the interviewer, disadvantages. Some people don"t have phones , have numbers blocked etc. Those with hearing impairments will find more difficult.
