PAST WORKSHOPS
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WORKSHOPS: CONTENT

The Survey Link Scheme will not be running during 2008. Further announcements on the future of the scheme will be announced in Autumn 2008 by the ESRC.

Sample Content
Topics to be covered include:

  • Question Bank - What is it, What does it offer, Surveys in the QB.
  • CAPI - What it is, What are the advantages and disadvantages, examples and major users.
  • BLAISE - Introduction to the program and its uses, practical development of a questionnaire; and input of responses
  • Interviewing Video - Social and Community Planning Research (now NATCEN) with comments on technique
  • Guest speaker from survey organisation- Providing an in-depth explanation of how interviewers are briefed, the problems they encounter and insight in to the whole interview process

Fieldwork
Most applicants will have the opportunity to shadow a survey interviewer, generally arranged close to the applicants home base.

The applicants observe first-hand, how a survey questionnaire is carried out in a respondents home and how interviewers handle the varied circumstances they encounter.