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8.4.3.2 Short FI Level Verification Report (Pages 1 and 2)
The Short FI Level Verification Report provided a snapshot of the problems identified
during Telephone, Mail, and Field Verification. Page one (see Exhibit 8.8) provided a summary
of verification data. Displayed were the number of cases that had no form (code 70 only), no
phone, refused, percent of cases with no form/phone (once greater than or equal to 30 percent),
percent of cases refused (once greater than or equal to 30 percent), count of other ineligibles,
count of eligibles, count of cases selected for telephone, count of cases selected for mail, and
count of cases selected for field verification. If applicable, the results of any selected field
verification cases were also displayed. From this data, supervisors could see if an FI had a high
percentage of cases with no phones, no forms, refused, and how many have been sent to Mail
Verification (which is not as successful as Telephone Verification in obtaining a response).
More specific details of the problems displayed on page one were contained on page two
of the report (Exhibit 8.9). The second page displayed each problem identified during Telephone
and Mail Verification. A case could have multiple problems, so all problems for all cases were
displayed here to track trends related to possible shortcutting. There were 50 Problem Codes
divided into four groups by Screening and Interview Result Code (Exhibit 8.10).
8.5 Industry and Occupation Coding
During the later part of the interview, the FI asked a series of questions to obtain detailed
information about a respondent's job. Periodically through 2003, RTI sent this information to
The National Processing Center of the Bureau of the Census so that their team of industry and
occupation coders could classify each respondent's job. Details on the end results from the
Census coding operation are provided in Appendix F.
To provide feedback to interviewers, RTI developed a report listing interviewers having 3
or more "unable to code" cases in Quarter 1. For interviewers on this list, retraining on the proper
administration of the Industry and Occupation questions occurred during Quarter 2. All
interviewers received a listing of tips and helpful hints to use when collecting Industry and
Occupation data. Based on prior experience, common problem situations were included to
provide examples of the level of detail required to assign codes.
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