CATI
Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing
- Central CATI studio in Cairo
- 25 workstations
- "Transparent fieldwork” – the client has the opportunity to participate at any time in the interview briefing or the execution of the telephone interviews
- 75 trained interviewers
- 3 supervisors
Advantages of computer assisted interviewing techniques
- Reliable and complete data input
- Automatic adoption of responses or brands from earlier questions
- Automatic filtering
- Avoidance of positioning effects by standardized rotation and randomization of items
- Automatic plausibility checks
- Full concentration of the interviewer on the important contents of questions and answers
- Possibility of the respondent to complete the questionnaire themselves – guarantee of anonymity
- Efficient monitoring and control possible – automatic control of sample and quotas
- Direct recording of data from the interview – no need for later data entry – avoids an additional source of errors
- Data is available immediately
- Possibility of integrating logos/pictures/commercials.
