Interviewers’ Deviations in Surveys

Peter Winker is professor of statistics and econometrics at the University Gießen.Natalja Menold is a senior researcher at the Center for Survey Design & Methodology at the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim. Rolf Porst was a senior researcher at the Center for Survey Design & Methodology at the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim until he retired in 2012.

• Contents: Sebastian Bredl/Nina Storfinger/Natalja Menold: A Literature Review of Methods to Detect Fabricated Survey Data – Natalja Menold/Peter Winker/Nina Storfinger/Christoph J. Kemper: A Method for Ex-Post Identification of Falsifications in Survey Data – Nina Storfinger/Peter Winker: Assessing the Performance of Clustering Methods in Falsification Identification using Bootstrap – Jörg Blasius/Victor Thiessen: Detecting Poorly Conducted Interviews – Birgit Jesske: Concepts and Practices in Interviewer Qualification and Monitoring – Oliver Hülser: Automatic Interview Control of Market Research Studies – Natascha Massing/Daniela Ackermann/Silke Martin/Anouk Zabal/Beatrice Rammstedt: Controlling Interviewers’ Work in PIAAC - the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies – Ana Slavec/Vasja Vehovar: Detecting Interviewer’s Deviant Behavior in the Slovenian National Readership Survey – Josef Brüderl/Bernadette Huyer-May/Claudia Schmiedeberg: Interviewer Behavior and the Quality of Social Network Data – Natalja Menold/Marie Kristin Opper: Interviewer Experience and «Quality» of Falsified Data – Marieke Haan/Yfke Ongena/Mike Huiskes: Interviewers’ Question: Rewording Not Always a Bad Thing – Patricia A. Gwartney: Mischief versus Mistakes: Motivating Interviewers to Not Deviate – Matthias Ziegler/Christoph J. Kemper: Extreme Response Style and Faking: Two Sides of the Same Coin?