Interaction and the standardized survey interview :
[Book]
the living questionnaire /
Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
1 online resource (xiv 209 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-204) and index.
"Applying the techniques of conversation analysis, Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra reveals how certain rules of normal conversation fail to apply in interviews based on a standard questionnaire, and offers original empirical evidence to show what really happens. Her book demonstrates that interview results can only be understood as products of the contingencies of the interview situation, and not, as is usually assumed, the unmediated expressions of respondents' real opinions. Her conclusions have important implications for anyone interested in effective survey compilation and interpretation. The book is accessible, setting out the basic tools of conversation analysis simply and clearly, and suggesting ways of improving questionnaire design wherever possible. Its approach breaks new ground and will be of great interest to students and researchers of survey methodology."--Jacket.
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Interaction and the standardized survey interview.