Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65915 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2011-14
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
This paper examines the role of interviewers' experience, attitudes, personality traits and inter-personal skills in determining survey co-operation. We take the perspective that these characteristics influence interviewers' behaviour and hence influence the doorstep interaction between interviewer and sample member. We use a large sample of 842 face-to-face interviewers working for a major survey institute and analyse co-operation outcomes for over 100,000 cases contacted by those interviewers over a 13-month period.
Subjects: 
non-response
interviewer survey
Big Five personality traits
JEL: 
C83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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