NIPO Fieldwork System Fieldwork Logging Times

NIPO Fieldwork System Version 1.14

NIPO Fieldwork System Fieldwork Logging Times

The NIPO Fieldwork System stores various interviewing related times in its system files and tables. It keeps information in the interviewer log, the contact log and the U-file. Below is a schematic overview of the logging times kept in these files and tables, per action in the system. Note the following important differences between these logs:

The interviewer log stores accumulated times of a single interviewer session on a single survey. This spans one or more sample records as well as break times and time waiting for the system.
The contact log stores contact attempts. For a single sample record there may be zero or more contact attempts in the log. Contacts may be non-responses, partial interviews or full interviews.
The U-file contains the interview length of the stored interview, which may or may not be a successful interview. Whether or not an interview was stored depends on configuration of the used response code.

Fieldwork logging times

	Interviewer log			Contact log / C-file					U-file

Event time line	Total contact time	Pause time	Waiting time	Total contact time	Introduction time	Edit open time	Waiting time	Sample Wait Time	Total time


Interviewer enters survey name (if configured)
Interviewer enters interviewer number (if configured)
Interviewer waits to be assigned (if configured)
NIPO CATI Client starts to load survey
NIPO CATI Client finishes loading survey
NIPO CATI Client shows `*INFO` page 2 (if a dialer is used, if page was set by script)
Interviewer closes `*INFO` page 2 (if a dialer is used, if page was set by script)
Dialer Power and Predictive modes: NIPO CATI Client displays message "Press enter to get new number"	A		A
Dialer Power and Predictive modes: interviewer presses enter to get new number, enters pause or exits.
NIPO CATI / Web Master searches next sample record(s); dialer in power or predictive mode (if any) makes call attempts
NIPO CATI / Web Master starts sending next sample record to the interviewer
NIPO CATI Client finishes receiving sample record
NIPO CATI Client shows `*INFO` page 1 or 3 (if page was set by script)
Interviewer closes `*INFO` page 1 or 3 (if page was set by script)
Introduction screen appears with new sample record
Interviewer starts interview, confirms non-response, exits or pauses (pause not available in power or predictive dialer modes)
(NIPO ODIN Script execution)
Script ends or interviewer enters non-response
Edit open answers screen appears (if configured, if record was completed)
Interviewer finishes editing open answers (if configured, if record was completed)
Client application starts sending sample record and collected data to the NIPO CATI Master
Client application finishes sending sample record and collected data to the NIPO CATI Master	Log time continues at A		Log time continues at A
Interviewer starts pause
Interviewer ends pause	Log time continues at A		Log time continues at A

The dotted lines correspond with system events between which the log times are registered. The events are described in the time line.

	Time frame counted in log time
	Time frame is 0 or negligible

Notes:

The log time segments are not to (approximate) scale: segments times can range from less than a second to several minutes, and are dependent on sample size, dialer mode (if any) and survey length.
The Pause time in the interviewer log is only logged if the interviewer handled at least one sample record. If the interviewer logs in to a survey, directly enters pause mode and then logs off or switches to a different survey, no record is stored for the (first) survey in the interviewer log.
If an interview is restarted, the contact time and introduction time in the contact log are reset. The interviewer log contact time however is not deducted.
*INFO page 1 is shown at the start of each contact; *INFO page 3 is only shown once for the first contact in the current session of the interviewer on this survey.
The telephone time in the contact log is not included in this overview as it is either timed (toggled) by the interviewer using F10 or reported by the dialer (if any) based on the actual phone contact time with a respondent.