The use of self-administered questionnaires in conjunction with personal interviews is an efficient data collection procedure which achieves a high cooperation rate, especially from teen-agers. This article describes the costs and cooperation rates of alternative methods attempted in an NORC experiment, and compares the responses for the self-administered questionnaire and the personal interview.
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Sudman et al. (1965) studied this question.