13th Workshop on Labour Force Survey Methodology Sarah Hartleib Marc Plate Matea Paskvan Directorate Social Statistics Statistics Austria Reykjavík 17 May 2018 Introducing CAWI to the Austrian LFS: Improving the mixed-mode data collection 13th Workshop on Labour Force Survey Methodology
The Austrian LFS Obligatory survey Decreasing willingness to participate Risk of decreasing data quality Chance: Increasing internet access and user rates Increase data quality through more timely responses offer more respondent friendly mode
Changing the Austrian LFS 1st wave 2nd – 5th wave CAPI CATI (CAPI) until now
Changing the Austrian LFS 1st wave 2nd – 5th wave CAPI CATI CAWI (CAPI) until now from 2021
LFS CAWI Pilot How to efficiently implement a mixed-mode CAWI design for the Austrian LFS? timely responses concurrent mixed-mode design communication strategy data quality
LFS CAWI Pilot - time table Literature review & preparations: mode questions communication strategies debriefing calls with 15 CAWI and 15 non-CAWI 1st wave 2nd wave 05/2018 07/2018 10/2018 01/2019 02/2019
testing communication strategies LFS CAWI Pilot design Wave 1 Wave 2 N = 277? CAWI N = 550 CATI testing communication strategies CAPI N = 148? N = 425? completed N = ? screening questions N = ? CAPI CATI N = 110? N = 125?
Testing for concurrent mixed-mode design Possible mode-screening questions (wave 1): internet access at home HH-members are internet users Internet literacy Provided email address (Jäckle et al. 2015; Jäckle et al. 2017)
Testing communication strategies in wave 2 invitation 1st reminder 2nd reminder Group 1 & copy Group 2 & copy Group 3 & copy Group 4 & copy
What‘s next: Mobile first No substantial changes in questionnaire for now Smartphone-first approach at STAT until 2021 Test for adapting LFS questionniare to mobile devices planned for 2019 1st
Thank you. Please address queries to: Sarah Hartleib Contact information: Guglgasse 13, 1110 Vienna phone: +43 (1) 71128-7510 sarah.hartleib@statistik.gv.at Thank you.