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van der Zouwen, Johannes., Smit, Johannes. and Van der Horst, Marleen. "Reporting the frequency of household tasks by elderly respondents: the effect of different interview strategies on data quality" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association For Public Opinion Association, Fontainebleau Resort, Miami Beach, FL, <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p16804_index.html>

van der Zouwen, J. , Smit, J. and Van der Horst, M. "Reporting the frequency of household tasks by elderly respondents: the effect of different interview strategies on data quality" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association For Public Opinion Association, Fontainebleau Resort, Miami Beach, FL <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p16804_index.html

Publication Type: Paper/Poster Proposal Abstract: Detailed self-report questions are hard to answer, especially for elderly respondents (Schwarz et al., 1998). So one would expect that questions, posed to elderly respondents (65+) about the frequency and duration of their performance of household tasks during the last two weeks, lead to question-answer sequences resulting in much item non-response and many inadequate, irrelevant and incomplete answers. Contrary to that expectation, in a survey after physical activities and fall incidents among elderly people, hardly any item non-response was reported. Moreover, the answers to these self-report questions corresponded quite well with independently collected information, by means of a 7-day diary, about the performance of various household tasks (Stel et al., 2004). In order to explain the difference between the expected and the actual interview process, we focused the analysis on the behavior of the interviewers. It turned out that they used different strategies to help the respondents to come up with relevant and complete answers. In the ‘integral’ strategy, the interviewer -in accordance with the questionnaire- poses questions about the frequency and duration of entire groups of household tasks. In the ‘partial’ strategy, the interviewer -deviating from the questionnaire- rephrases the questionnaire and poses the questions about frequency and duration for each individual task separately, therewith making the questions easier to answer. The ‘mixed’ strategy is a combination of these two interview strategies. The interview strategy employed has a strong effect on the duration of the question-answers sequences and on the information eventually provided by the respondent. References Schwarz, N., Park, D., Knaüper, B. and Sudman, S. (Eds.)(1998), Cognition, Aging, and Self-Reports. Psychology Press, Philadelphia, PA Stel, V., Smit, J.H., Pluijm, S.M.F., Visser, M., Deeg, D.J.H., and Lips, P. (2004), Comparison of the LASA Physical Activity Questionnaire with a 7-day diary and pedometer. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 57, 252-258

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