An urgent need to speed up timing of surveys as well as seeking for reduction of financial costs of research prompted development of the new method of surveying. We make an overview, here, a telephone survey, and more ...

This paper deals with the question of the utility of an interview schedule as filled out by interviewer after the interrogation. They regard it as a tool that helps to assess quality of collected data. I analyze, here, ...

The basic premise of this article is belief that Polish sociology have been predominated by survey research and--consequently--could not determine the most important questions that we face in the 1990s. I attempt to ...

This paper is based on reports coming from participant observations of 58 interviews from survey research. I analyze, here, behavior of interviewers and some of its implications for quality of data. These reports show that ...

Running computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) one cannot control external effects, contaminating validity of responses by interviewers, especially so-called effect of 'third persons'. Bearing on long-lasting ...

We are dwelling, here, with analysis of stability in responses given by respondents during one interview. Stability is referred to reliability of questions. We point out some determinants of changes in answering the same ...