University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Declinations of the Request to Participate in the Survey Interview

Maynard, Douglas, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Robert CradockWorking paper no. 1993-23

Re-Opening Closed Questions: Respondents’ Elaborations on Categorical Answers in Standardized Interviews

Cradock, Robert, Douglas Maynard, Nora Cate SchaefferWorking paper no. 1993-24

Negotiation Certainty: Uncertainty Proposals and Their Disposal in Standardized Survey Interviews

Schaeffer, Nora Cate, Douglas Maynard, and Robert CradockWorking paper no. 1993-25

From Paradigm to Prototype and Back Again: Interactive Aspects of “Cognitive Processing” in Standardized Survey Interviews

Schaeffer, Nora Cate, and Douglas MaynardWorking paper no. 1994-17

Open and Closed Questions about the Frequency of Events: Replication, Extension, Paradox

Schaeffer, Nora Cate, and Jennifer DykemaWorking paper no. 1994-18

Development of a Personal Event Schema

Dykema, Jennifer, and Nora Cate Schaeffer Working paper no. 1999-27 Abstract A substantial proportion of the research conducted by social scientists involves measuring, describing, and analyzing phenomena that can be broadly classified as events or behaviors. In order to measure experience systematically and in a manner that permits generalization across individuals and to larger groups, …

Response Errors in Child Support and Paternity Questions: Procedures and Codes for Studying Interaction between the Interviewer and Respondent

Dykema, Jennifer, and Nora Cate Schaeffer Working paper no. 2004-02

Greeting and Response: Predicting Participation from the Call Opening

Schaeffer, Nora Cate, Bo Hee Min, Thomas Purnell, Dana Garbarski, and Jennifer DykemaWorking paper no. 2017-02 Abstract Although researchers have used phone surveys for decades, the lack of an accurate picture of the call opening reduces our ability to train interviewers to succeed. Sample members decide about participation quickly. We predict participation using the earliest …