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Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, 2004 – User Guide
household. Once this information was completed, the CATI application randomly selected
one individual to be the CSGVP respondent. Respondents were informed that their
participation in the survey was voluntary, and that their information would remain strictly
confidential.
The CATI application ensured that only valid question responses were entered and that
all the correct flows were followed. Edits were built into the application to check the
consistency of responses, identify and correct outliers, and to control who gets asked
specific questions. This meant that the data was already quite “clean” at the end of the
collection process.
The cases were distributed to five Statistics Canada regional offices. The workload and
interviewing staff within each office was managed by a project manager. The automated
scheduler used by the CATI system ensured that cases were assigned randomly to
interviewers. There were a maximum of 20 call attempts per case identified as a
residential phone number; once the maximum was reached, the case was reviewed by a
senior interviewer who determined if additional calls would be made.
7.3.2
Territorial component
Collection of the CSGVP in the territories was very similar to the collection in the
provinces with the following exceptions:
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All data were collected using a computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI)
application which allowed responses to be captured directly by the interviewer at
the time of the interview; and
•
While most interviews were collected by telephone (74%), for households without
landlines, interviews were conducted in person (26%).
7.4
Non-response
Interviewers were instructed to make all reasonable attempts to obtain a completed interview with
the randomly selected member of the household. Those who at first refused to participate were
re-contacted up to two more times to explain the importance of the survey and to encourage their
participation. For cases in which the timing of the interviewer’s call was inconvenient, an
appointment was arranged to call back at a more convenient time. For cases in which there was
no one home, numerous call backs were made.
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