@article{McCarthy:235088,
      recid = {235088},
      author = {McCarthy, Jaki Stanley},
      title = {Using Respondent Requests for Help to Develop Quality Data  Collection Instruments: The 2000 Census of Agriculture  Content Test},
      address = {2001},
      number = {1496-2016-130640},
      pages = {8},
      year = {2001},
      abstract = {Responsibility for the United States Census of Agriculture  was transferred from the U. S. Census Bureau to the U.S.  Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural  Statistics Service (NASS) for the 1997 Census. Substantial  changes are planned for the report forms and instructions  to be used in the following 2002 Census of Agriculture.  Changes include content, wording, and format of the report  forms. Due to the magnitude of the changes to the 2002  report form, a multi-phase test was conducted to evaluate  and improve the quality of the data collected with this  form. This Census Content Test was conducted in three  phases : 1) cognitive pretesting, 2) split panel pilot test  with 3 versions of a new draft report form, and 3) follow  up interviews. A toll free telephone number respondents  could call for assistance was printed on all of the report  forms mailed out in the second phase of the Census Content  Test. This number was staffed by NASS enumerators  throughout the data collection period. Calls made by  respondents to the help line were evaluated as part of the  Census Content Test. The number and type of problems that  respondents reported in calls to the toll free telephone  line was compared across the different versions of the  forms and for different types of respondents. Examples of  problems which indicated areas where forms or instructions  might be improved are provided. How this evaluation was  used to support other types of evaluations in the content  test is also discussed.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/235088},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.235088},
}