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Evaluating Race-of-Interviewer Effects In a National Survey

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  • Nora Cate Schaeffer

    (National Opinion Research Center University of Chicago)

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The present article attempts to overcome some of the problems involved in estimating race-of-interviewer effects in a nonexperimental national survey. Individual items as well as scales were examined, using General Social Survey (GSS) data. Race-of-interviewer effects large enough to justify the practice of matching interviewer and respondent race for interviews on racial topics were found for both black and white respondents. A few such effects were found for nonracial items among blacks, but the range of items involved is smaller than what has been reported in previous studies. The impact of race-of-interviewer effects on mean estimates in the GSS appears to be small for white respondents, due to the small proportion of cross-race interviews. The proportion of cross-race interviews among blacks is larger and more variable over the years, and the impact of race-of-interviewer effects should be considered when analyzing items which show these effects.

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  • Nora Cate Schaeffer, 1980. "Evaluating Race-of-Interviewer Effects In a National Survey," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 8(4), pages 400-419, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:somere:v:8:y:1980:i:4:p:400-419
    DOI: 10.1177/004912418000800403
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    1. Himelein,Kristen, 2015. "Interviewer effects in subjective survey questions: evidence from Timor-Leste," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7208, The World Bank.
    2. Ian Brunton-Smith & Patrick Sturgis & George Leckie, 2017. "Detecting and understanding interviewer effects on survey data by using a cross-classified mixed effects location–scale model," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 180(2), pages 551-568, February.

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