Deck 6: Survey Research: Interviews and Telephone Surveys

Question 1

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

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Much of the deep dark figure of crime consists of minor property crime.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

It may be necessary at times for the interviewer to be an undiplomatic boor.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Victim surveys are usually cheaper than other surveys since they do not require as large a number of respondents.

Question 5

It is generally impossible to ask questions which require a scaled response over the telephone.

Question 6

Reverse record checks involve validation of reported behavior on the basis of studying a group whose behavior is already known.

Question 7

Both official statistics and victim surveys underestimate certain crimes such as "victimless" ones.

Question 8

The purpose of the crime panel with repeat interviews every six months is to bound or provide a benchmark for crime reports.

Question 9

In the randomized response technique the interviewer is not certain of the exact question being answered by the respondent.

Question 10

While police statistics are based on the number of incidents, victim surveys are based upon individual victims.

Question 11

The greatest likelihood of refusals is during the first minute of the telephone survey.

Question 12

Random digit dialing procedures enable researchers to overcome the matter of telephone surveys not including new or unlisted numbers.

Question 13

The National Crime Victimization Surveys employed among the most complex and elaborate design, sampling, and estimating schemes ever used on such a large scale in the social sciences.

Question 14

The randomized response technique is an excellent means of obtaining unlisted telephone numbers.

Question 15

Most victim surveys exclude nonresidents and foreign tourists, an omission which tends to underestimate the crime report.

Question 16

The Central City Victim Surveys were discontinued by the Department of Justice.

Question 17

The National Crime Panel surveys employed a stratified multistage cluster sample.

Question 18

Informal discussions once the formal interview is completed can often obtain important information.

Question 19

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

Question 20

The chief finding of initial victim surveys in the 1960s was that there was about twice as much crime as officially recorded by police.

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

In random digit dialing, a hundreds bank refers to the first eight digits of any ten-digit telephone number.

Question 24

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

Question 25

The National Crime Victimization Survey has traditionally operationalized homicide very well.

Question 26

The National Crime Victimization Survey is an example of a cross?sectional survey.

Question 27

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

Question 28

The NCVS fails to gather data on murder.

Question 29

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.

Question 30

The data on rape in the NCVS has been historically poor.

Question 31

Victim surveys require larger samples than standard public opinion polls.

Question 32

Internet surveys are limited as a means of surveying the general population.

Question 33

The initial victim surveys discovered only about half as much crime as appeared in official statistics.

Question 34

The redesigned NCVS makes use of CATI technology.

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

A) more expensive than standard interviews
B) may limit types of questions that can he asked
C) fails to survey nontelephone owners
D) limits the ability to obtain in?depth response

Question 37

In the randomized response technique the respondent is not certain of the exact question being asked by the researcher.

Question 38

While police statistics are based on individual victimiza tions, victim surveys are based upon the number of incidents.

Question 39

The National Crime Victimization Survey has traditionally operationalized rape poorly.

Question 40

Bounding in crime panels refers to using a pretest as a reference point for the survey reporting period.

Question 41

Branching procedures refer to:

A) the initial questions asked in an interview
B) probing
C) bounding
D) a line of questioning used for sensitive items in telephone surveys

Question 42

The National Crime Victimization Survey employs what type of sampling?

A) simple random
B) snowball
C) stratified, multistage, cluster
D) cluster

Question 43

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

A) use experiments
B) use of panels
C) reverse records checks
D) bounding of target groups

Question 44

The purpose of probing in interviews is:

A) to clarify and gain further detail for the response
B) to conduct a pretest of the interview
C) to increase response rates
D) to develop a coding scheme

Question 45

Which of the following is no longer a part of the NCVS?

A) bounding
B) rotation of subsamples
C) panels
D) central city surveys

Question 46

The moving of a previous incident into the time period being studied is called:

A) bounding
B) rotation
C) screening
D) telescoping

Question 47

The Dark Figure of Crime refers to:

A) crimes committed after dark
B) officially recorded crime
C) unreported crime
D) crimes cleared by arrest

Question 48

Which of the following was not mentioned as appropriate procedure in conducting interview surveys?

A) interviewers should not arrive at the household too early or late in the day
B) interviewers must be prepared at times to be a persistent boor
C) minor small talk should be avoided
D) if instructed to do so, the interviewer should properly edit all responses

Question 49

The dark figure of crime consists mainly of:

A) serious violent crime
B) murder
C) minor property crime
D) suicide

Question 50

Which is not a feature of the NCVS crime panel?

A) bounding
B) mail questionnaires
C) reinterviews every six months
D) rotation

Question 51

Which of the following is not undercounted in census and victim surveys?

A) females
B) males
C) blacks
D) youths

Question 52

Which of the following is not true with respect to a comparison between the UCR and the NCVS?

A) the NCVS counts information only on the crimes coming to police attention
B) the UCR counts crime against all age groups
C) the NCVS counts only crimes against persons age 17 and older
D) the NCVS counts crimes against households

Question 53

Random digit dialing enables:

A) the inclusion of unlisted numbers in the survey
B) the encouragement of responses to sensitive questions
C) computer assisted interviewing
D) control for interviewer bias

Question 54

Using initial interview questions in order to clarify that the respondent is an appropriate one is called:

A) screening
B) probing
C) simulation d reverse record checking

Question 55

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

A) bounding
B) reverse record checking
C) probing
D) simulation

Question 56

Telescoping refers to:

A) underreporting of crime by the police in the UCR
B) moving previous incidents into the time period being studied
C) forecasting future crime trends
D) the dark figure of crime

Question 57

Which of the following is true regarding telephone surveys?

A) more problems with interviewer bias
B) eliminates the need for a field staff
C) difficulty in follow?up
D) expensive

Question 58

Which of the following was not identified as a problem in victim surveys?

A) large cost
B) need for large samples
C) mistaken interpretation of incidents
D) inability to check on accuracy of responses

Question 59

Which of the following was not identified in the book as a benefit of victim surveys?

A) they are more accurate than the UCR
B) may supply more accurate data on rape and assault
C) useful for measuring crime costs
D) assesses issues such as fear, satisfaction with police, and other attributes

Question 60

A procedure in which the interviewer is blind to the specific item (either a sensitive or probability one) being answered is called:

A) randomized response technique
B) random digit dialing
C) double blind study d dark figure response

Question 61

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

Question 62

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

Question 63

Describe how one might go about conducting a telephone survey involving random digit dialing.

Question 64

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

Question 65

List the three major types of interviews.Under what circum stances would it be most appropriate to use each?

Question 66

Given many of the criticisms that have been levied against victimization surveys, discuss some methods that have been employed to assure greater validity in these surveys.

Question 67

is a sampling procedure that enables the researcher to overcome a major shortcoming of telephone surveys: new or unlisted numbers.

Question 68

are victim surveys conducted by the Census Bureau on behalf of the Bureau of Justice Statistics.The survey consists of a rotating crime panel of 60,000 households.

Question 69

Discuss some of the general procedures employed in inter viewing, particularly in large, standardized field interviews.

Question 70

is a means of checking on the validity of self reports by interviewing after the fact known crime victims.

Question 71

is the name (or acronym) for the use of laptop computers in conducting personal interviews.

Question 72

__________involves asking follow?up questions to focus, expand, clarify, or further explain the response given.

Question 73

study is a type of longitudinal study involving examination of the same select group over time.

Question 74

How are the NCVS Surveys conducted? What have been some major criticisms of these surveys?

Question 75

Discuss the major shortcomings of telephone surveys and some methods that can be employed to overcome them.

Question 76

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

Question 77

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

Question 78

is a procedure for obtaining answers to sensitive questions that uses indeterminate questions in which the actual question answered is known only to the respondent and is unknown by the researcher.

Question 79

involves reinterviews and replacement of crime panel subunits in the NCVS.

Question 80

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.