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• As it became full of data, its response time slowed and tried respondents' patience.
• The touch-screen technology created a confidence issue for new staff who were
unaccustomed to using computers.
• Concentrating on the device meant less eye contact with the respondent, which in turn
made it tougher to establish good rapport.
6.8.6 CAI Patches
During the course of data collection for 2003, several problems were found with the logic
programmed into the CAI instrument. Modifications were made to the programs loaded on the FI
laptops using CAI patches. To receive the patch, FIs simply transmitted and the new program
files were installed automatically. Several patches were issued during the year.
Quarter 2 patch:
• Switched the order of the definition and question on the Spanish version of the
Medicaid question to match the English text.
• Corrected the Spanish version of QD26 (which asks about working the previous
week) so that the correct month displayed when the previous week spanned two
different months.
• Corrected the New Hampshire Medicaid program name.
Quarter 3 patch:
• Corrected a logic error in the Hallucinogens section if the respondent changed an
answer about recency of use of LSD or Ecstasy through the consistency check items.
• Corrected a logic error in the Stimulants section to eliminate occasional redundancy
related to one question.
• Corrected the length of the TOT* variable value for the core drugs should a
respondent answer "don't know" or "refused" to a certain consistency check item.
• Corrected the problem with three time-stamp variables that had been blank.
July patch:
• Corrected a missing audit trail data problem within the CAI Manager.
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