2014/01/15 by Melania Rudin, Rudin, Melania, Christoph M. Müller +1
Arts and Humanities · Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Health and Medical Studies #Sociology and Education Studies #Sports Science and Education
paper · doi:10.12758/mda.2013.020
openalex publication_date 2017/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
One of the challenges in the collection of life course-data in panel-design-surveys is to guarantee overall consistency of the data from different annual surveys. “Dependent Interviewing” is one possibility to reduce these difficulties, by drawing on data collected at previous waves to phrase questions or direct respondents through the Survey-instrument. For the eighth wave of the longitudinal survey TREE (Transitions from Education to Employment) forms of “Reactive Dependent Interviewing” were used to ensure the connection to existing episodes of previous waves. Based on findings from cognitive psychology, further modules of plausibilisation were integrated in the CATI-instrument: a visual presentation of life course-data on the screen for interviewers and consistency checks for gaps – periods without activity – as well as overlapping activities. This article presents results of the first analysis of survey raw data and describes the application and usefulness of the developed CATI-tools.