Year 2008

The first tests of the questionnaire of the new edition of the Family Survey (which was not yet called "Family and housing") took place in September 2008 (INED test) and October 2008 (INSEE test).
The INED test, funded by the Drees, was made in the Paris region with a hundred households: 60 households surveyed by adoor to door routine, located in socially polarized neighborhoods; 40 selected households via the investigators’ networks, including 20 households composed of PACSed couples, 20 households with single parents (specifically fathers raising their children alone). Interviewers were recruited by the Survey department of INED.
The test was carried out by INSEE interviewers in Aquitaine with a hundred households also. The profiles of the people surveyed were not defined a priori, although investigators have sought to diversify the profiles.
As part of these two tests, each respondent was then interviewed about the survey itself with a number of questions to gather their views on the formulation of questionnaire about their understanding, their interest in the themes of the survey, the questionnaire ergonomics (font size, legibility of tables), its color, etc. ...
The results of the "investigation of the questionnaire" and the overall survey operation resulted in the merger of the two questionnaire versions in a single questionnaire, tested in 2009.
They allowed the improvement of the questions on multi-residence, PACS and same-sex couples, which are the main innovations of the new edition of the Family Survey. They were decisive to make choices regarding the issues kept or otherwise withdrawn (questions about the former spouse, simplification of the language module, etc.).