Abstract
Cathryn Dippo, Anne Polivka, Kathleen Creighton, Donna Kostanich, and Jennifer Rothgeb (1994)
"Redesigning A Questionnaire For Computer-Assisted Data
Collection: The Current Population Survey Experience," CPS
Research Documentation Report.
Over the last decade, there have been two new factors that
have significantly influenced the design of survey data
collection—the computer and the theories and methods of
cognitive psychology. When, in 1986, staffs of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census initiated a
process for redesigning the Current Population Survey (CPS)
for the 21st century, incorporating these two new factors was
made a top priority. In this paper, we illustrate how, by
concentrating on the cognitive processes of respondents and
interviewers, we used computer-assisted interviewing as a
tool for reducing measurement error.
Key words: cognitive aspects of survey methodology,
questionnaire testing, measurement error
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