Systematic measurement error associated with question wording or characteristics of respondents and interviewers.

In this type of interview, interviewers are not supposed to deviate from question order or wording.

May be used to reach different sets of respondents or to ask different types of questions.

Questionnaire form used by an interviewer.

Traces changes over time by repeatedly asking questions of the same individuals.

Automates data collection by prompting introductions to questions, skipping irrelevant questions, and entering data directly into a computer file.

The most common survey design.

The most costly survey mode.

To study relationships among social actors, every person in the group is surveyed.

This survey mode takes the least time but also requires the simplest questions.

The object is to convince persons in the sample to participate in the survey.

The least expensive survey mode, which also tends to have the lowest sample quality.

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