In April through June of 2008, a paper-and-pencil “event history calendar” (EHC) field test was conducted in two sites, Illinois and Texas. The test’s primary objective was to determine whether a Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) interview conducted via EHC methods, and administered once per year, could produce data of equal (or better) quality compared to the data collected using a conventional “standardized” questionnaire administered every four months, as is SIPP’s current practice. The prototype instrument contained a small subset of SIPP content, focusing on need-based government transfer programs such as Food Stamps. Interviewers completed 1,627 in-person household interviews for a unit-level response rate of approximately 91%. The evaluation of the field test will focus mainly on a comparison of the data derived from the EHC and SIPP questionnaires collected from the same people and for the same time period, but will also include respondent and interviewer (“Field Representative”) debriefings, and interview observation reports. Ideally, the evaluation would have also included recordings of the interviews for later analysis such as behavior coding, but heightened data security concerns precluded making such recordings. Thus, the observations were arranged in order to gain some understanding of the interviewer-respondent interaction from an outside perspective. This report presents findings from the observations; separate reports will be prepared for each of the other evaluation methods.