Time/Date
10:45am-12:00pm on Tuesday, 4/29/2025

Facilitator
TBA

One large survey organization describes how survey contact attempts are measured to evaluate the level of effort in getting completed interviews. Another presentation focuses on how new interviewers without prior experience are trained. A third presentation discusses how creating an optimized routing for field interviewers can result in more efficient uses of limited resources and better use of time to conduct interviews. And finally, a survey organization discusses how they measure harassment against interviewers and have improved related protocols.

Presentations
• Consistently Inconsistent: Calculating a contact attempt variability score for interviewers at the U.S. Census Bureau
  • Laura B. Hergert, U.S. Census Bureau (presenter)
• On the Front Line: Finding and Briefing the Field Research Interviewer
  • Kai Fuentes, Ebony Marketing Systems (presenter)
• The Traveling Surveyor Problem: Cutting Survey Costs by Identifying Inefficiencies in Interviewer Route Planning
  • Elizabeth Mahoney, U.S. Census Bureau (presenter)
  • Scott W. Glendye, U.S. Census Bureau
• Harassment in the Field: Training and Budgeting for Researcher/Interviewer Agency
  • Kai Fuentes, Ebony Marketing Systems (presenter)