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Appendix AAA

Level of Effort by Main Final Disposition Codes


Level of Effort/Average Number of Calls by Final Main Disposition *
Final Disposition Final Status # Cases % Total Cases # Calls % Calls Level of Effort/Avg. # of Calls
19/1 Completed interview 4,268 44.06 57,907 31.12 13.6
19/2 Not completed based on FRB completeness test 315 3.25 4,772 2.56 15.2
25/1 Final language barrier 17 0.18 259 0.14 15.2
25/92 Subsampled out batch 1 384 3.96 7,120 3.83 18.5
25/94 Subsampled out batch 2 381 3.93 9,206 4.95 24.2
25/96 Subsampled out batch 3 348 3.59 7,911 4.25 22.7
25/99 Final Ineligible - Screened out During Main 224 2.31 3,100 1.67 13.8
33/66 Final Privacy Manager 3 0.03 47 0.03 15.7
33/90 Final Non-Contact w/All No Answer or All Busy (1) 16 0.17 10 0.01 0.63
33/91 Final Unavailable 1202 12.41 28,547 15.34 23.8
33/92 Final Answering Machine 67 0.69 668 0.36 10.0
33/93 Final Proxy Refusal 155 1.60 4,414 2.37 28.5
33/94 Final Away For Entire Field Period 18 0.19 375 0.20 20.8
33/95 Final R/Owner Refusal 1,278 13.19 31,938 17.16 25.0
33/96 Final Physically/Mentally Incapacitated 11 0.11 68 0.04 6.2
33/97 Final Gatekeeper Refusal 326 3.37 10495 5.64 32.2
33/98 Final Partially Complete 386 3.98 14371 7.72 37.2
33/99 Final Hostile Refusal 288 2.97 4868 2.62 16.9
All   9,687 100.00 186,076 100.00 19.2

*All final dispositions including dispositions for types of non-interviews. Return to Text

(1) Some of these cases likely went into main interviewing near the end of data collection, and only had one opportunity to be called. Six cases got "stuck" in the call management system and were never called during main interviewing. Return to Text


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