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4 The Questionnaire: Instrumentation and Flow
4 The Questionnaire: Instrumentation and Flow
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was converted from an obsolete survey programming language to the Windowsbased Blaise software, which is widely used within survey organizations for survey instrumentation. Many questions, instructions, and answer spaces are presented to the interviewer on a "standard" Blaise screen in a sequential fashion consistent with the 2008 SIPP questionnaire instrument.
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The Event History Calendar Screen These screens are new to the 2014 SIPP. While a standard screen shows one question at a time sequentially, this alternative type of screen focuses on a calendar that assists the interviewer/respondent in accurately capturing participation spells2 for selected programs.
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43 SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, screenshot from 2014 SIPP wave 1 computerized questionnaire.
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• Reference material for interviewer is at bottom left, shaded in yellow. • Spells appear as horizontal red bars in the calendar after that section of questions has been covered in the questionnaire.
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Questions are grouped by topic, which this report will refer to as "sections." Some sections are asked only of the designated household respondent, but most sections are asked separately of each current household member who is 15 years of age and older.3 Rosters The initial section of the instrument presents questions to a designated household respondent, asking that person to verify a prelisted address and to specify tenure. She is also asked to help build two household rosters: the current household roster (those household members living in the household during the interview-month)
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The procedures with respect to original sample members have not changed with the new design. With the earlier SIPP design, the purpose of attempting to collect full information after wave 1 on former household members during the time they lived with original sample members -- and imputing the data when it could not be collected -- was to provide SIPP data users with a full picture of the households in which original sample members lived in every month they remained part of the sample.
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Box 4-2 shows the sections dealing with participation that are not included in the EHC screens. These sections use only the standard screens to establish participation, define the spells of participation, and ask questions related to that participation.
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SOURCE: Study panel analysis based on a review of the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation wave 1 questionnaire.
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Training and Work Identify presence or absence of training program. Experience Program Identify spells for work experience programs.
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A related section asks about the time that the respondent spends with household children and whether the family eats meals together. A third related section asks questions about the children's experiences at school, such as homework, special classes, sports, or any disciplinary issues.
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It also asks about food insecurity. HANDLING OF PRELOADED DATA As with prior SIPP panels, the 2014 redesign makes use of dependent interviewing techniques,5 primarily to combat seam effect/bias (Moore, 2008)
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FIGURE 4-3 Overlap in timeline of two interview waves from which preloaded data are pulled.
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• The red bars and blue bars represent data preloaded from the wave 1 interview that are available on the calendar screen during the wave 2 interview. The red bar represents a spell completely reported (closed spell)
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Thus, SIPP administrators do not want to provide any barrier to a respondent answering questions more honestly in subsequent waves, even if they failed to report program participation in earlier waves. Respondent Consent to Use Data in Subsequent Interviews The Census Bureau obtains respondent consent before her data is used in subsequent interview waves, either as feedback (preloaded data)
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for that activity. Once the spells for a single activity are identified, the flow takes the interviewer and respondent out of the EHC and into a series of detailed questions about the activity, moving from question to question in a linear flow, using structured interviewing from standard interviewing screens.
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