Yabiku Scott T, Glick Jennifer E, Wentz Elizabeth A, Ghimire Dirgha, Zhao Qunshan
The Pennsylvania State University.
Arizona State University.
Surv Res Methods. 2017;11(3):329-344. doi: 10.18148/srm/2017.v11i3.6741.
Individual actions are both constrained and facilitated by the social context in which individuals are embedded. But research to test specific hypotheses about the role of space on human behaviors and well-being is limited by the difficulty of collecting accurate and personally relevant social context data. We report on a project in Chitwan, Nepal, that directly addresses challenges to collect accurate activity space data. We test if a computer assisted interviewing (CAI) tablet-based approach to collecting activity space data was more accurate than a paper map-based approach; we also examine which subgroups of respondents provided more accurate data with the tablet mode compared to paper. Results show that the tablet approach yielded more accurate data when comparing respondent-indicated locations to the known locations as verified by on-the-ground staff. In addition, the accuracy of the data provided by older and less healthy respondents benefited more from the tablet mode.
个体行为既受到个体所处社会环境的限制，也受到其促进。但是，由于难以收集准确且与个人相关的社会环境数据，旨在检验关于空间对人类行为和福祉作用的特定假设的研究受到了限制。我们报告了尼泊尔奇旺的一个项目，该项目直接应对了收集准确活动空间数据的挑战。我们测试了基于计算机辅助访谈（CAI）平板电脑的活动空间数据收集方法是否比基于纸质地图的方法更准确；我们还研究了与纸质方式相比，哪些受访者子群体使用平板电脑模式提供的数据更准确。结果表明，将受访者指出的位置与实地工作人员核实的已知位置进行比较时，平板电脑方法产生的数据更准确。此外，年龄较大和健康状况较差的受访者提供的数据准确性从平板电脑模式中受益更多。
