Comparison of Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI) with Paper-and-Pencil (PAPI) Interviews in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth. NLS Discussion Papers

摘要

In discussions of mode effects, the survey methodology literature distinguishes three modes of data collection-face-to-face, telephone and self-administers. 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.