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In this mode, surveys are assigned to the interviewer and he/she can choose one to work with.
When the CATI Console starts in the Survey Selection mode the interviewer is presented with the list of all assigned surveys.
Figure 1 - Example of the CATI Interviewer Console started in the Survey Selection mode
The interviewer selects a survey by double-clicking its name in the list, and the CATI Interviewer Console then starts the first interview from that survey that is assigned to the interviewer. From then on the CATI Interviewer Console operates in the Automatic mode (go to Automatic Mode for more information) - when the first interview is finished the CATI Interviewer Console starts the next until all interviews from this survey that are assigned to the interviewer are finished.
Important!
Regardless of how many surveys are assigned to the interviewer, he/she can work with only a single survey during a session. Once all the interviews from the selected survey that have been assigned to the interviewer are finished, he/she must log out and then log in again to work with another survey.
Note: If only one survey is assigned to the interviewer working in the Survey Selection mode, the CATI Interviewer Console starts operating in the Automatic Interviewing mode from the very beginning as the interviewer cannot choose another survey.
If when the current interviewer logs in they have no surveys assigned to them, the CATI Console displays the following message.
Figure 2 - Message displayed on log-in in Survey Selection mode when no surveys are available
At this point the interviewer can either log out of the CATI Console by pressing the Log out button (go to Logging Out and Closing the Console for more information), or they can click the Refresh button to force the interviewer console to perform another search for an assigned survey. If Refresh is clicked and no assigned survey is found for the current interviewer, the same message is displayed again. The interviewer can repeat the procedure until an assigned survey appears, or he/she can log out of the CATI Console.