Interviewer influences on the ratings given "values" questions by farmers

Author

Gordon S. Nicks

Date of Award

3-1963

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Major

Agricultural Economics

Major Professor

Charles Cleland

Committee Members

Irving Dubov, Ted Jones

Abstract

This thesis is an investigation of interviewer bias. The data upon which this thesis is based were collected from two surveys which were conducted in Bradley and White Counties, Tennessee. A survey was conducted at the beginning and one at the termination of the “Trial-Acre Fertilizer Demonstration and Education Experiment.” The terminal survey, it was anticipated, would measure the change that had taken place since the experiment was initiated. A brief background of the “Trial-Acre” program is given before the problem of interviewer bias is approached.

Recommended Citation

Nicks, Gordon S., "Interviewer influences on the ratings given "values" questions by farmers. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 1963.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/8766