by more than 60 leading CASIC practitioners from numerous disciplines, this coherently organized volume: Covers CASIC development and its integration into existing designs and organizations Discusses instrument development and design Examines survey design issues, including the incorporation of experiments Discusses case management of automated survey systems Evaluates training and supervision of computer assisted interviewers Reviews self-administered surveys, including optically scannable mail surveys Considers emerging technologies, such as voice recognition, pen-CASIC, and the Web as a data collection tool. Supplemented with copious tables, figures, and references as well as an extensive glossary, Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection provides a solid foundation in CASIC for seasoned research-survey practitionersand graduate students across a broad spectrum of social science disciplines.