Survey Automation:

Report and Workshop Proceedings

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Publication Year:2003

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Oversight Committee for the Workshop on Survey Automation, Daniel L. Cork, Michael L. Cohen, Robert Groves, and William Kalsbeek, Editors, National Research Council
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For over 100 years, the evolution of modern survey methodology using the theory of representative sampling to make interferences from a part of the population to the whole has been paralleled by a drive toward automation, harnessing technology and computerization ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
I Report -- Introduction	1-8	(skim)
Current Practice in Documentation and Testing	9-11	(skim)
Shift from Survey Research to Software Engineering	12-13	(skim)
Changing Survey Management Processes to Suit Software Design	14-21	(skim)
Dealing with Complexity: Broadening the Concept of Documentation	22-27	(skim)
Reducing Insularity	28-32	(skim)
II Proceedings - Opening Remarks	33-35	(skim)
What Makes the CAI Testing and Documentation Problems So Hard to Solve?	36-62	(skim)
Software Engineering -- The Way to Be	63-77	(skim)
Automation and Federal Statistical Surveys	78-82	(skim)
Understanding the Documentation Problem for Complex Census Bureau Computer Assisted Questionnaires	83-96	(skim)
The TADEQ Project: Documentation of Electronic Questionnaires	97-115	(skim)
Computer Science Approaches: Visualization Tools and Software Metrics	116-136	(skim)
Model-Based Testing in Survey Automation	137-152	(skim)
Quality Right from the Start: The Methodology of Building Testing into the Product	153-163	(skim)
Interactive Survey Development: An Integrated View	164-173	(skim)
Practitioner Needs and Reactions to Computer Science Approaches	174-182	(skim)
Web-Based Data Collection	183-197	(skim)
Interface of Survey Methods with Geographic Information	198-210	(skim)
Prospects for Survey Data Collection Using Pen-Based Computers	211-225	(skim)
Panel Discussion: How Can Computer Science and Survey Methodology Best Interact in the Future	226-246	(skim)
Workshop Information	247-250	(skim)
Bibliography	251-252	(skim)
Biographical Sketches of Workshop Participants and Staff	253-260	(skim)

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For over 100 years, the evolution of modern survey methodology using the theory of representative sampling to make interferences from a part of the population to the whole has been paralleled by a drive toward automation, harnessing technology and computerization to make parts of the survey process easier, faster, and better. The availability of portable computers in the late 1980s ushered in computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), in which interviewers administer a survey instrument to respondents using a computerized version of the questionnaire on a portable laptop computer. Computer assisted interviewing (CAI) methods have proven to be extremely useful and beneficial in survey administration. However, the practical problems encountered in documentation and testing CAI instruments suggest that this is an opportune time to reexamine not only the process of developing CAI instruments but also the future directions of survey automation writ large.

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