1. Cognitive Interview Obstacles
Little or no training
No understanding of cognitive methods
No CAPI
Multiple languages
Multiple cultures
Multiple levels of development

2. Requirements Structured interview guide Very simple instructions
Few skip patterns
Quantitative data and analysis

3. Cognitive Interview Protocol
Designed to illustrate:
Administration ease
Interpretations
Factors considered
Degree of consistency with physical abilities

4. Cognitive Interview Protocol
Demographic Section: Country, gender, age, SES
Question Testing Sections
Core Question
Interviewer Coding
Open-ended Follow-up Probe
Cognitive Follow-up Probe
Functioning Follow-up Probe
Health Questions
Subjective health
Chronic condition list

5. Interviewer Code: Did the respondent…
need you to repeat any part of the question? Yes/No
have any difficulty using the response options? Yes/No
ask for clarification or qualify their answer? Yes/No

6. Open-ended Follow-up Probe
Why did you answer that way?

7. Cognitive Follow-up Probes:
How often they had difficulty
The amount of effort they needed to put into the activity
How often they felt self-conscious about the difficulty
The degree of concern or worry they had regarding the difficulty
How often they wished they could do the do the activity better

8. Functioning Follow-up Probes
Presence of a condition
Use of an assistive device
Degree of difficulty doing related activities

9. Health Status General health question Why did you answer that way?
Health conditions

10. Interviewer Debriefing
Details about the interview and interview setting
Insight into the quality of the information

11. Analysis Plans Patterns in the response process
Interpretation
Judgment
Patterns of response error
Across countries and demographic variables