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Using Data Mining To Predict The Occurrence Of Respondent Retrieval Strategies In Calendar Interviewing: The Quality Of Retrospective Reports, Robert Belli, L. Dee Miller, Tarek Al Baghal, Leen-Kiat Soh

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Determining which verbal behaviors of interviewers and respondents are dependent on one another is a complex problem that can be facilitated via data-mining approaches. Data are derived from the interviews of 153 respondents of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) who were interviewed about their life-course histories. Behavioral sequences of interviewer-respondent interactions that were most predictive of respondents spontaneously using parallel, timing, duration, and sequential retrieval strategies in their generation of answers were examined. We also examined which behavioral sequences were predictive of retrospective reporting data quality as shown by correspondence between calendar responses with responses collected in prior …