STATISTICAL IDENTIFICATION OF RESEARCH TRENDS MANIFESTED IN THE FIELD OF SURVEY INTERVIEWER CHARACTERISTIC’S

In this paper we intend to identify the research trends manifested in the literature on the survey interviewer characteristic’s. A first objective pursued was to identify the distribution of research topics, their territorial distribution and their dynamics expressed in the study of survey interviewer characteristics. A second objective was to verify if the publication of articles in a journal depends on the theme, on the geographical area from which the author came or on the period of the research. In order to achieve these objectives we used descriptive statistics, multiple correspondence analysis and logistic regression. Using the statistical software R statistical data were processed.For the analyzed sample, the results of statistical analysis showed that a signifi cant number of articles have been published by American and European researchers. Most these articles were published after 2000, and the main research theme is the analysis of the survey interviewer characteristics. The data analysis shows that the moment of publication of the research results in a prestigious journal depends on economic, political, social and cultural context characteristic of geographical area from which the author comes. The results also showed that a certain period when the articles by analyzed sample where published and the geographical area from which the researcher comes had a negative effect on the estimated probability to approach a research topic. Also, articles written by U.S. researchers were more likely to be published.