Exam 6: Survey Research: Interviews and Telephone Surveys

_________________ involves asking follow-up questions to focus, expand, clarify, or further explain the response given.

Following up an initial question with a request for more in depth explanation is called:

A major advantage of internet surveys over other types of surveys is that they are inexpensive if not free.

What are the general advantages and disadvantages of inter viewing as a data gathering strategy?

Interviewers should attempt to act naturally and make some small talk in order to win rapport with respondents.

_________________ is a procedure of using the initial interview to set a boundary or time period during which events were recalled as having taken place can be established.

Menard's comparison showed that, while the UCR showed steadily increasing rates of crime, the NCVS and National Youth Survey indicated stable or decreasing rates.

The Dark Figure of Crime refers to:

The dark figure of crime was found to include a large number of unresolved murders.

The crime panel which is used in the National Crime Survey is an example of cross-sectional research.

The redesigned NCVS makes use of CATI technology.

Which of the following was not identified as a disadvantage in telephone surveys?

The NCVS is conducted for the BJS by the Census Bureau.

Which of the following was not mentioned as a means of rolling for error in victim surveys?

Discuss CATI and CAPI technology.In what types of survey situations are these most useful?

While theoretically interesting Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing is not very practical in actual research situations.

_________________ figure of crime was the term European criminologists used to refer to unrecorded crime.

_________________ is the tendency of respondents to move forward and report as having occurred events that actually took place before the reference period.

Interviewers should attempt to avoid small talk with respondents in order to impress upon them the seriousness of the occasion.

_________________ is the name (or acronym) for the use of computers in conducting telephone interviews.