CAPI Computer – Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) is an interviewing technique in which the respondent or interviewer uses a computer/portable device to answer the quesons. This method provides credible data within a short period of me even with long and complicated quesonnaire. CAPI Development Following steps are followed during CAPI development:- Formulaon of interview quesonnaire. o During this phase, inputs received from the client are also included Interview programming o Specific programming language(Default English) o Quesonnaire design soſtwares o Forms design soſtwares Debugging and pilot tesng o Understand error free output o Total me taken , On that basis of we will decide our interview length (Min to Max interview me) Advantages Increased accuracy of data collecon o Built in edit checks to evaluate the consistency as well as completeness of the data Ease in handling complex quesonnaire o Automated skips paerns, calculaons, fill-ins decrease errors o Decreases interviewer and respondent burden Improved meliness o Combines data collecon and entry phases of interviewing Impact on the interview cost o Depends on the program resources and type of survey o Higher front end costs e.g. Computers, interviewer training o Lower back end costs e.g. data processing Appeal of CAPI to respondents o Computers perceived as nonjudgmental and objecve o Interview facilitator perceived as more professional Limitaons Difficult to manage open ended quesons ( Collect open end quesonnaire in Paper) Potenal for technical problems during interviews Limitaons like literacy issues and vision problems of the interviewees The survey is likely to aract only respondents who are “ computer savvy”, thus introducing the bias to the survey