The first contact

Surveys using face-to-face interviews are described in the literature as the “gold standard”. However, the high quality is associated with high costs compared to other survey methods, as each address has to be visited several times by the interviewer. How time-consuming contacting is also depends on the contact information available. In order to reduce the accessibility rate and the selective error due to non-accessibility, infas has carried out preliminary contacts in three large face-to-face studies in recent years.

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