Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection

MICK P. COUPER, PhD, is Research Professor at both the University of Michigan Survey Research Center and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. Reginald P. Baker is President & Chief Operating Officer of Market Strategies International, USA.

• The History and Development of Computer Assisted Survey InformationCollection Methods (M. Couper & W. Nicholls). Diffusion of Technolgical Innovation: Computer Assisted DataCollection in the U.K. (M. Collins, et al.). Integrating CASIC into Existing Designs and Organizations: A Surveyof the Field (R. Groves & R. Tortora). Development and Implementation of CASIC in Government StatisticalAgencies (C. Clark, et al.). Organization Effects of CATI in Small to Medium Survey Centers (J.Tarnai, et al.). A Systematic Approach to Instrument Development in CAI (S. Kinsey& D. Jewell). Producing CAI Instruments for a Program of Surveys (M. Pierzchala& T. Manners). The Individual Interview (D. Sikkel). Incorporating Experiments into Computer Assisted Surveys (T. Piazza& P. Sniderman). Use of Computer Assisted Interviewing in Longitudinal Surveys (A.Brown, et al.). The Future of Data Editing (J. Bethlehem & F. van dePol). Automated Coding of Survey Data (H. Speizer & P.Buckley). Automated Management of Survey Data: An Overview (W.Connett). CAPI Survey Management Systems: Case Management on Laptops (L.Hofman & J. Gray). Automated Call Scheduling: Current Systems and Practices (T.Edwards, et al.). Getting From There to Here: Electronic Data Communications in FieldSurveys (J. Smith, et al.). Training Field Interviewers to Use Computers: Past, Present, andFuture Trends (M. Wojcik & E. Hunt). Evaluating Interviewer Use of CAPI Navigation Features (S. Sperry,et al.). Mode, Behavior, and Data Recording Error (J. Lepkowski, etal.). Computerized Self-Administered Questionnaires (M. Ramos, etal.). Ten Years of Interviewing without Interviewers: The Telepanel (W.Saris). Collecting Sensitive Information with Different Modes of DataCollection (R. Tourangeau & T. Smith). Automated Self-Interviewing and the Survey Measurement of SensitiveBehaviors (C. Turner, et al.). Response Rates, Data Quality, and Cost Feasibility for OpticallyScannable Mail Surveys by Small Research Centers (D. Dillman &K. Miller). Scanning and Optical Character Recognition in Survey Organizations(E. Blom & L. Lyberg). Pen CASIC: Design and Usability (J. Bosley, et al.). Business Surveys of the Future: The World Wide Web as a DataCollection Methodology (R. Clayton & G. Werking). Current and Future Technolgoy Utilization in European MarketResearch (B. Blyth). The CASIC Future (R. Baker). References. Glossary of CASIC Acronyms. Index.