F2F CAPI interviews
CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviews) is a procedure adopted to increase the efficiency and accuracy for face to face data collection.
Each interviewer introduces answers on a tablet with an imas soft installed, specially developed for creating questionnaires and conducting interviews. It is an application in permanent development, complex and efficient, with a user friendly interface that allows also running audio/ video during the interview.
What can we monitor using tablets?
Registering geographical location for each questionnaire, and thus checking application of all instructions regarding sampling | Quality of the interviewing: the soft ensure logic skips from a question to another, alerting interviewers on incoherent answers | Time spent by the interviewer on each question from the questionnaire |
Due to the internet connection, all data are encrypted, transmitted and submitted shortly to [imas] server, where they can be checked in real-time by the project manager.
CAPI advantages
A superior speed comparing to PAPI | time for printing, transmission and sending back the paper questionnaires from the field is eliminated |
Zero errors | soft ensures all logic skips in the questionnaire |
Elimination of costs | elimination of costs regarding printing questionnaires and introducing data |
Time gained | automatic introduction of the data in the system |
Optimization of time for checking | easier procedure to check an interview and then the entire data base |
Interim reports | preliminary results can be generated during the entire project |