The perils of straying from protocol: sampling bias and interviewer effects.

Fidelity to research protocol is critical. In a contingent valuation study in an informal urban settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, participants responded differently to the three trained interviewers. Interviewer effects were present during the survey pilot, then magnified at the start of the main survey...

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Main Authors: Carrie J Ngongo, Kevin D Frick, Allen W Hightower, Florence Alice Mathingau, Heather Burke, Robert F Breiman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118025