Obviously, if a child answered a landline or a mobile telephone, the interviewer asked to speak to a parent or guardian.
In terms of selecting an individual to complete the survey, when all quotas were available, any eligible respondent answering a landline telephone within a household was permitted to complete the survey.
In surveys, if a respondent answers a landline telephone and is either ineligible or unwilling to complete a survey, an interviewer can prompt for another eligible individual in the household to complete the survey; this is not possible using mobile phones.
The host answered these calls from a landline phone on his desk.
In the world of the ubiquitous sales call, the sort of person who picks up a landline and answers the opener, "Hello, I'm from ABC research, I wondered if I could ask you a few questions?", by saying "Sure, I've got time to talk" is not typical either.
Of 30,514 participants in the 2005 Health Barometer survey, 26,672 were contacted by landline phone to answer all questions of the Health Barometer, and 3,842 persons, without a landline phone, were contacted by their mobile phone to answer questions related only to tobacco, alcohol and illegal drug use because by the year 2000, more people had only a mobile phone.
They called a landline number for a Kirk Rose, but when he answered he said he had no knowledge of the money.
Very few people still have a landline home phone, and if they do, they likely never answer it.
You'll need a landline telephone, which works better for phone interviews than a cell phone, and voicemail or an answering machine, and possibly a fax machine.
