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Warsaw 2009: Presentations and short courses

Investment in Quality: Monitoring Fieldwork on the Spanish Survey of Household Finances

Session: Fieldwork monitoring

Authors:

Lauren Doerr; National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago, United States
Sarah Hughes; National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago, United States

Abstract:

Electronic fieldwork monitoring has become a fixture of survey research. On Spain’s Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (Spanish Survey of Household Finances), fieldwork monitoring in the third round included computerized sample management and a computer assisted personal interview programmed to include data quality measures. These systems, combined with daily wireless data transmission, permitted near real-time assessment of interviewer adherence to the contacting strategy and to the quality of data collected. This presentation reviews the monitoring strategies employed on the EFF 2008 and presents a case study of how fieldwork monitoring allowed researchers to identify a case of interviewer falsification during the field period. Other uses of the systems for sample management and data quality measurement are also discussed.