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CARI: What and Why CARI: What and Why
CARI Elements CARI Elements
- Collection
- Management
- Coding
Computer Audio Recorded Interviewing (CARI): Experience Implementing - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Computer Audio Recorded Interviewing (CARI): Experience Implementing - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Computer Audio Recorded Interviewing (CARI): Experience Implementing the New Blaise Capability Rick Dulaney and Wendy Hicks, Westat y y CARI: What and Why CARI: What and Why CARI Elements CARI Elements Collection Management
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CARI Impact on Survey Processes – 1 CARI Impact on Survey Processes – 1
- Direct observation
- Interviewer validation
- Data quality
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CARI Impact on Survey Processes – 2 CARI Impact on Survey Processes – 2
- Editing
- Open-ended responses
- Consent
- Training
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CARI Implementation Requirements CARI Implementation Requirements
- Leverage existing hardware
- Leverage existing hardware
- Unobtrusive
- Flexible
- Integrate with existing data collection
- Highly usable data
- CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
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Recording: Past Recording: Past…
- Westat-developed recording capability
- Westat-developed recording capability
- Overlaid Audit.dll
- INI file determined details
INI file determined details
- Considerations
- Re-engineer to Blaise releases
Re engineer to Blaise releases
- Issues with navigation
- No screenshots
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Recording: Present Recording: …Present …
Blaise 4.8.2 CARI Specification Tool
S d fil d h t
- Sound files and screenshots
- “Chance” sampling
- File naming
e a g
- Consent
- Logging
- Many other sound file features
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Recording: Advantages of Blaise CARI Recording: Advantages of Blaise CARI
- Tightly integrated
- Maintenance made easy
- Screenshots
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CARI and Field Management: Challenges CARI and Field Management: Challenges
- Confidentiality
- Sound file considerations
- Very large files
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Coding Sound Files: CARICode Coding Sound Files: CARICode
As CARI data increases As CARI data increases…
- Replace networked applications with web-based
- Distribute coding across field staff based on
function
- Role-based access
- Paradata is paramount
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CARICode Functions CARICode Functions
- Interviewer validation
- Interviewer validation
- field supervisors, QA staff
- Question assessment
- Question assessment
- designers, methodologists
- Interviewer performance
- Interviewer performance
- field supervisors
- Survey data capture
- Survey data capture
- coders, editors
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CARI: Implementation Overview CARI: Implementation Overview
- Design and specification
- Design and specification
- Items, probabilities, functions
- CARICode configuration
- CARICode configuration
- Items, coding & verification rates, paradata
- Testing
- Testing
- Unit, integration
- Production & Reporting
- Production & Reporting
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