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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Surv Stat Methodol. 2017 Jun 30;6(1):122–148. doi: 10.1093/jssam/smx014

Table 5.

Bivariate Conditional Logistic Regressions of Acceptance of the Request to Participate on Actions of the Interviewer in the First Turn

95% CI
Measure and definition No.a Odds ratio p (2-tailed) Lower Upper
Turn construction
Number of actions in first turn (1–5) 514 1.11 0.26 0.93 1.32
Efficient turn (= 1, 0 = efficient variants + canonical + canonical variants + other) 514 0.65 0.02 0.46 0.93
Efficient turn and variants (= 1, 0 = canonical + canonical variants + other) 514 0.69 0.05 0.48 0.99
Politeness
Number of polite elements in first turn (0–9) 514 1.04 0.51 0.93 1.16
Number of polite elements in greeting (0–3) 514 1.23 0.20 0.90 1.70
Greeting includes polite element (= 1, 0 = absent) 514 1.28 0.21 0.87 1.87
Very polite first turn (1 = 5 or more out of 9, 0 = all others) 514 1.75 0.07 0.95 3.23
Greeting token (1 = hello or good morning/afternoon/evening, 0 = all others) 502 1.36 0.12 0.92 2.01
Greeting token (1 = hello, 0 = hi) 458 1.49 0.06 0.98 2.26
Disfluency
Turn begins with disfluency token (= 1, 0 = absent) 514 0.55 0.09 0.27 1.10
Disfluency token present in first turn (= 1, 0 = none) 514 1.09 0.39 0.89 1.34
a

Analysis includes pairs in which both sample members and interviewers had relevant actions.