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Reducing Insularity
Pages 28-32

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From page 28...
... But the Workshop on Survey Automation suggests that furthering the CAPI cause will require solutions and approaches with which current survey practitioners may be unfamiliar. Accordingly, the survey world remains insular of developments in computer science and software engineering at its peril; opportunities for long-lasting collaboration should be actively pursued.
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From page 29...
... To boost response rates and improve survey coverage, survey designers increasingly consider conducting the same survey using multiple response modes (e.g., offering respondents the chance to reply either by mail or the Internet or conducting a mail survey but following up with nonrespondents via telephone)
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From page 30...
... Another immediate point of useful survey-computer science collaboration could be in tapping extant software engineering work on tracking project specifications over the life-cycle of a software project. The Census Bureau is working on tracking changes to survey specifications using database strllctllres; this is an area in which outside expertise may be immediately applicable.
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From page 31...
... This includes not only effective strategies for instrument documentation, but also best practices in managing intensive software projects and emerging techniques for testing survey software as well. ICeep the Survey-Computer Science Discussion Active In closing, it is our hope that the survey research industry will strive to build continuing channels of communication with the field of com
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From page 32...
... In light of this observation, and of the great lessons that survey methodology and computer science have to offer each other, having joint activities lilce the Workshop on Survey Automation once a decade is clearly too infrequent to be useful. Regardless of the forum for such collaborations whether workshops lilce this one, special sessions at professional meetings, or other means the computer-assisted survey community should strive to have formal collaborative opportunities with computer science and related fields on at least a three-year (or twice Moore's Law)
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