The study reports on a randomized trial of 1,200 young adults enrolled in an employment training program executed by the Ministry of Labor in the Dominican Republic "Youth and Employment Program" (PJE, for its Spanish acronym), to determine the most cost-effective and appropriate interview mode for measuring youth risk behaviors. Four different survey administration modes –two interviewer-assisted (FTFI and CATI) and two self-administered modes (SAI and ACASI)–were randomly assigned to young adults between the ages of 18 and 30. The authors have centered the study on the question of cost-effectiveness, which integrates both actual implementation costs and estimates of measurement bias into the decision about an appropriate choice of interview mode for a given research study. The research shows that the target population is likely to underreport sensitive questions in self-administered surveys, and thus the degree to which a mode improves self-reporting of a particular risk behavior or set of behaviors is likely to be context specific.

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