Contact outcome codes define the outcome for each personal interview, and are used to determine the queues in which used records should be placed (the sample management scripting language refers to contact outcomes as Sample record return codes). Code numbers 1 through 149 are reserved for internal use by the sample management system and are described in the following table. If you want to define your own contact outcome codes, you must use numbers 150 or above.

Interviewers working on personal interviewing projects see a list of possible contact outcomes on their desktop UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Offline for Windows application. If the respondent agrees to be interviewed immediately, the interviewer clicks Start, otherwise the interviewer selects a contact outcome from the list. Records for which personal interviews take place are assigned their outcome codes by the interviewing program. For example, after an interviewer modifies the participant information (such as Phone number), the interview will be set to the Edited outcome code.

The following contact outcome codes are defined for personal interviewing projects in DPM’s site-level DefaultCapiSampleRecReturnsCodes property. The codes populate the contact outcome list that displays for interviewers working on personal interviewing projects. The UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Offline for Windows Interviewing Options activity allows field managers to modify the list for a particular project.