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RESPONDENT SELECTED 1. A selected respondent who is not available when selected and is not reached on subsequent dialings should be dispositioned as "selected respondent not available during the interviewing period." 2. A selected respondent who refuses initially and is not spoken to on subsequent calls should be dispositioned "refused." 3. A selected respondent who begins the interview but terminates without meeting the criteria for a completed interview [sex and three or more questions from age, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, education, employment status, county code, and “Do you have more than one telephone number in your household?” are answered with a response other than Don’t know/Not sure (7, 77, or 777) or Refused (9, 99, or 999)] should be dispositioned [09] "terminated within questionnaire" if s/he continues to not meet the criteria after subsequent calls. NO RESPONDENT SELECTED 1. The choices of disposition for calls that are answered by a person but are terminated without an eligible respondent being selected are "not a private residence (05)," "no eligible respondent at this number (06)," "language barrier (08)," "respondent unable to communicate due to physical or mental impairment (11)" and A hang-up or termination before respondent selection (14)@. 2. If a sampled phone number reaches an answering machine or other technological barrier, it should be dispositioned "not a private residence" only if the message clearly indicates that the phone is not in a private residence. If the recorded message (1) does not provide enough information to determine the residential status of the phone number and is never answered by a person, or (2) indicates it is a residence but is never answered by a person, then the number should be given a final "technological barrier" [12] disposition once the callback rules are satisfied. Implementing these guidelines for CATI systems will require that records receiving interim disposition codes of "ring-no-answer", "busy", or "technological barrier" dispositions only have their interim disposition codes reviewed to determine the appropriate final disposition code. For DOS Ci3 CATI, the CLEANALL.EXE program has been revised to perform these conversions. ASSIGNMENT OF FINAL DISPOSITION BASED ON INTERIM DISPOSITIONS Either because a record has reached the maximum number of call attempts or for some other reason, the last disposition in the call history of a record may not be a final disposition. In such cases, the assignment of the appropriate final disposition will require a review of all the interim dispositions. The table below shows the appropriate final disposition that should be assigned in a variety of such cases. Projects should contact their Project Officer about cases not covered by the table below. Projects should ensure that every record whose last disposition in its
call history is an interim disposition is assigned a final disposition
according to the following rules. The first rule should be applied first to
all records with a last, interim disposition code, then the second rule to
the remaining records, etc. WinCATI makes most of the assignments below when
the Assign Final Disposition menu item is chosen. |
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Footnotes 1. - All disposition codes referenced are final BRFSS disposition codes per Numbered Memo 2000.3. During data collection, CATI systems utilize different codes that are converted to the final code set. 2. - A Language barrier@ [08] or A physical or mental impairment@ [11] may also occasionally be appropriate final dispositions. |
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