Quality Control of Social Surveys

The first chapter presents the results of a pilot plan, which consisted in the fact that the routes pass personal interview (a national representative survey of 9,500 respondents conducted one of the leading Russian companies questionnaires) and walk to the respondents. We were able to talk with the residents of these apartments as the respondents, as well as with their neighbors, and have not found one respondent. In the second chapter we analyzed a sample of Moscow itself, trapped in her administrative districts and regions, all the addresses and routes for all sources available to us. Once the house was found a non-existent, we separately tested the presence of all included in realized sample of houses on the map of Moscow. We do not just pass route in search of the respondents, and recorded and checked all references listed in the itinerary interviewers polling company. The objective was to assess the level of accessibility and effort spent by interviewers to survey the desired number of respondents belonging to a route selection. The newly discovered mass falsification and fabrication. To do this, we selected the most "clean" throughout the document and reiterated their routes. The process of selecting the net routes, as well as their analysis and results of repeated appeals are detailed in the third chapter. The fourth chapter presents the results of the third pilot plan, when our employees get to work in the leading Russian company Polling interviewers to conduct door-polls. The objective was to understand how the fabrication and falsification fixed at the institutional level, what is happening inside the polling "machine," as organized and methodical work with the interviewers and what is the status of these workers. Last, the fifth chapter is the guidelines for conducting surveys door-using computerized technology. Fixing paradata automated polls - one of the outputs of the current situation with the now traditional violation of research ethics in mass surveys. We offer a list of variables that must be present in the software of electronic devices to comply with certain "purity" of the field work and the fight against mass falsifications and fabrications.