VAR 000020 Pre.Admin.17. Verification COLUMNS: 82 - 82 Numeric Pre-Admin.17. PRE: Verification --------------------------------------------------------------------- Approximately 15 percent of interviews (completed or partially completed) were randomly selected and verified by field supervisors for new interviewers, and 6 percent were randomly selected and verified for SRC-experienced interviewers. Verification was attempted by phone (phone interviews) or by letter (FTF interviews) within 3 days of interview date. If no contact/response with the respondent was made after 3 attempts, a replacement line was selected. The respondent was asked whether they were interviewed by the interviewer of record, the approximate length of the interview, and whether or not the interview was interesting; in addition , 3 questions were asked about content of the interview. NOTE: for verification codes, a "don't remember" response is considered a non-match. 0. Counted for Ann Arbor office, not selected for verification 1. Flagged for verification (interview number selected) 2. Verified OK (all verification data match original data exactly) 3. Verified with discrepancy (only one piece of verification data does not match; everything else matches exactly) 4. Not verified (more than 1 piece of information reported by the respondent at the time of verification is different from that collected at the time of the original interview or finalizing the case; further probing results in assignment of either code 3 or code 4 as a final code) 5. Unable to verify (R is contacted but is unwilling to participate in verification exercise or the respondent cannot be reached; this includes: reaching the household by telephone but not reaching the respondent, and includes sending the verification latter to a household but no letter returned after 3 attempts) 6. Verification limit met (used when the verifier has already completed the needed verification level). 0 1 2 3 ----- ----- ----- ----- Count 1509 15 246 22 4 5 6 ----- ----- ----- Count 3 10 2 ==============================