Population and Technical Progress (Interviewer Efficiency)

Survey of interviewers about their interviewer activity and data about
the interviewer from records of the survey institute.

Topics: education; manner of financing studies; occupation of father;
affinity with technology; degree of social contact; position in sibling
sequence; child-raising by father or mother; interest in sociology;
grade in the methods seminar; reading technical literature; interest in
result of investigation; expected effort in conducting interviews;
interviewer experience with market and opinion research institutes;
assessment of unpleasant questions; contacts with professors; car
possession; membership in a political unification; intelligence
quotient; Brengelmann test; knowledge test as well as expected percent
distribution in the population for questions of the primary
investigation; quotient for time expended and successfully conducted
interviews; distance between place of residence of respondent and that
of interviewer; number of contacts with the institute; interviewer
motivation and problems with the interviewer from the point of view of
the institute; number of contact attempts with the respondent and
successful debriefings; most important problems in establishing contact
and in conducting surveys as well as best strategies to reduce
resistance to the survey.