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During eight years of a U.S.-led occupation, Iraqi attitudes have shifted away from sectarianism and toward a national identity. Coupled with increased support for the separation of politics and religion, this shift may pave the road for a functioning national government.

This report examines the opportunities and challenges associated with the adoption of computer-assisted interviewing (CAI) technology for data collection in household surveys in the Indian context, following a recent large-scale test of CAI in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The issues identified are highly relevant to the Government of Tamil Nadu's (GOTN) ongoing work to convert state survey data collection operations to CAI. These issues are also more generally informative to the shift from paper-based questionnaire instruments to CAI technology for state governments throughout India. The Survey Research Center (SRC) at the University of Michigan has worked closely with a Tamil Nadu state government agency—the Department of Economics and Statistics—that is at the center of this shift to CAI. Based on this experience, and our background running major CAI surveys in the U.S., Nepal, China, and elsewhere, this report provides some broader context about CAI, key features to consider in the selection of CAI software platforms, issues in the management of CAI operations, and related topics. This report was prepared by SRC independently of GOTN, but in service of the GOTN's work to expand CAI data collection. ; World Bank ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/171096/1/WB Report Transition to CAPI FINAL 2021-02-27.pdf ; Description of WB Report Transition to CAPI FINAL 2021-02-27.pdf : Technical Report ; SELF

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Research has shown that interviewers can significantly affect survey respondents' reported attitudes and behaviors. Several interviewer characteristics have been found to partially explain variation in respondents' answers across interviewers, particularly when questions are related to interviewers' observable characteristics such as gender, race, and age. However, less is known about if and how interviewers' religious appearance and religious attitudes affect survey responses and, more specifically, reports about religious attitudes. Collecting accurate information on religious attitudes is important, given the sensitivity of this information across the globe and the growing interest in understanding religious perceptions and misconceptions. This paper is the first to investigate (a) the independent effects and the interplay between interviewers' religious veil status and interviewers' religious attitudes on respondents' reported religious attitudes and (b) the magnitude of the interviewer variance explained by interviewers' religious characteristics. The data comes from a nationally representative survey of religious and political attitudes in Tunisia carried out in 2013. Data from the survey also includes information about interviewers' characteristics (including veil status for females) and interviewers' own religious attitudes based on their responses to the same survey questions asked of respondents. Results showed that respondents interviewed by veiled female interviewers reported greater religiosity than respondents interviewed by unveiled female interviewers. Equally important were interviewers' religious attitudes, which also independently affected the corresponding attitudes of respondents and explained a substantial percentage of the between-interviewer variance for several outcomes. The effect of interviewers' attitudes on respondents' attitudes was not stronger among veiled interviewers. Our investigation also revealed that the effect of interviewers' attitudes on respondents' reported attitudes operated somewhat differently for male and female respondents depending on the specific survey items. Future studies are needed to explore the mechanism(s) underlying these effects.