The telephone surveys were conducted by trained interviewers using a computer-assisted telephone interview system from Westat (Rockville, Maryland, USA), a national research organisation with survey sites across the US.
Interviews were conducted in English and French by trained professional interviewers using a computer-assisted telephone interview system (86,486 phone calls were made, 62,439 people were reached, 54,930 people accepted to be interviewed, 3,221 people were eligible for the interview, and 2,003 people completed the interview).
A computer-assisted telephone interview system with trained and supervised female interviewers was used.
Trained interviewers administered all surveys with a computer-aided telephone interviewing system between 10 00 am and 10 30 pm on weekdays.
Trained interviewers administered the survey using a computer aided telephone interview system, which took respondents an average of 20 minutes to complete.
The quantitative interview was conducted face-to-face, with interviewers posing items verbally and recording responses in a computer-based personal interviewing system (Blaise®, Westat).
Her rejection came at the hands of "an interview system more reminiscent of an old-boy network than genuine justice for society".
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown called it "an absolute scandal" and said Ms. Spence had been a victim of an interview system that "is more reminiscent of the old boy network and the old school tie than genuine justice in our society".
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