Which of the Following Statements Is NOT Correct About Computer-Assisted

question 26

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is NOT correct about computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) ?

• A)The computer checks the responses for appropriateness and consistency.
• B)Interviewing time is reduced, data quality is enhanced, and the laborious steps in the data-collection process, coding questionnaires and entering the data into the computer, are eliminated.
• C)The CATI software cannot perform skip patterns.
• D)Interim and update reports on data collection or results can be provided almost instantaneously.

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Definitions:

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of the middle of a dataset, commonly by using the mean, median, or mode.

Variance

A measure of the distribution of data points in a data set around the mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Z-score

A statistical measure representing the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean of its data set, used in standardizing scores for comparison.

Probability Sampling

Sampling based on random selection of the sample units.