Ad hoc surveys at the Robert Koch Institute
Schmich, Patrick
Lemcke, Johannes
Zeisler, Marie-Luise
Müller, Anja
Allen, Jennifer
Wetzstein, Matthias
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) regularly conducts nationally representative cross-sectional studies (KiGGS, DEGS and
GEDA) as part of the nationwide health monitoring system. In addition to these health surveys, data is collected in
telephone interviews either on specific thematic fields (such as diabetes) or specific groups (such as medical staff) that
were not or only insufficiently covered by the larger health surveys. As they are flexible and fast, ad hoc surveys conducted
via telephone interviews can respond to specific epidemiological and health political questions. This article describes
the procedures applied in ad hoc telephone interview surveys, which were newly introduced as a standardised method
in 2017 and are applied by the Laboratory for Health Surveys at the RKI. The article presents the stages of project
management such as concept development, establishment of a concept for data protection, questionnaire development,
pre-test and field phase, calculation of weighting factors and provision of the final data set. The aim is to describe the
process and shed light on the standardised procedures, the reported quality indicators and the breadth of possible
scenarios of application.
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Die deutsche Version des Artikels ist verfügbar unter: http://doi.org/10.17886/RKI-GBE-2018-081