It aims to cast some light on the questions concerning control of interviewers in survey research. Control is regarded here as constitutive link in attempts to improve quality of the fieldwork both on the part of process ...

In seeking for "effect of interviewer" one cannot forget that, presumably, also reciprocal effect - that of respondent on interviewer occurs. In this paper I make use of data coming from the 1994 research on deviant ...

Occupational position comes to be the most popular indicator of social status in sociological analyses. In what follows I put forward arguments supporting validity of this approach. I present: (1) theoretical rationale ...

A new series of split-ballot experiments into the effects of the formulation of questions upon the results of surveys have been carried out in France since 1987. The main findings of these experiments deal with such ...

This is summary overview of some most distinctive tendencies emerging in area of social research in the first half of the 1990s. We figure out: (1) expansion of public opinion and (2) market research, (3) increasing ...

This analysis provides additional empirical support for a thesis that "open" and "closed" questions show to be two different but complementary forms of asking questions. I compare, here, self-identifications with social ...

The question to determine is what respondents think about making them known the name of financial sponsor of the research. We attempted to resolve this issue empirically, basing on the representative random sample (N= ...