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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Field methods. 2019 Jul 14;31(3):195–213. doi: 10.1177/1525822X19861321

Table 3:

Interviewer Differences in Prompting Behavior (Based on Ten Recordings Each), Number of Names Elicited, and Mean Time in Eliciting Section.

Interviewer Average
percent of
questions
prompteda
Percent of q’s
using other
promptingb
Mean number
unique names
elicitedc
Mean number
of names per
questiond
Mean number
of minutes in
name-eliciting
sectione

1 31 10 10.7 3.3 8.5
2 63 3 12.2 3.6 7.3
3 11 2 8.7 2.1 6.5
4 4 36 12.0 3.7 8.9
5 45 33 10.3 3.2 8.9
6 12 3 9.5 2.8 7.6
7 1 12 8.2 2.2 8.2
8 61 9 11.5 3.6 9.3
9 60 53 11.7 3.7 10.0

Notes: Interviewer 10 only conducted two interviews, so was not included in the analysis.

a

We consider interviewers “prompting” respondents when they mimicked the web administration of the survey by reading the entire prompt and—in particular—telling respondents how many names they could list for a question.

b

“Other prompting language” included instances where the interviewer asked the respondent questions such as, “Is there anyone else?”, “Is that all?”, or “How about your sister?”, or if interviewers told respondents “I have space for x more names.”

c

The average number of total unique names respondents provided to that interviewer.

d

The average, across respondents, of the mean number of names provided per question for that interviewer.

e

The average, across respondents, of the mean number of minutes in the main name-eliciting section for that interviewer. (The mean for web respondents is 9.6, with a higher skew than among interviewers.)