Publication type
Understanding Society Working Paper Series
Series Number
2023-09
Series
Understanding Society Working Paper Series
Authors
Publication date
June 27, 2023
Abstract:
This report is a summary of findings from an experimental test of monthly data collection, implemented to enhance data about life events in a household panel with annual interviews. Each month, sample members were asked a single Yes/No question about whether they had experienced any of a list of life events in the last calendar month. If ‘Yes’, they were asked which events they had experienced and then routed into modules of follow-up questions for each reported event. This report documents results on participation in the monthly data collection, quality of the data collected, effects of the monthly data collection on the annual interview, and related experiments in the annual interview to improve the collection of contact details.
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