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Conferences
Lausanne 2011: Overview of sessions
The sessions are grouped under the following 18 topic headings. You can find a description of each session by clicking on its title.
Topic List
- Web surveys
- Unit Nonresponse and attrition
- Weighting and imputation
- Survey mode
- Data linkage
- Methods for cross-national design and analysis
- Paradata and fieldwork
- Data archiving
- Longitudinal surveys
- Health Examination Surveys
- Substantive applications of survey research
- Paradata
- Response Styles
- Special Populations
- Socio-economic variables in cross-national surveys
- Interviewer effects
- Methods for cross-national design and analysis
- Questionnaire design and testing
- Survey Data Quality
- Survey Research Metadata
- Other topics
Topic: Web surveys
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Internet has caused a revolution in data collection and web panels have become one of the major data collection tools in market research. But also in governmental and scientific studies internet panels are increasingly used. One of the key issues in internet panels ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Edith De Leeuw - University of Utrecht, Netherlands', u'Annette Scherpenzeel - CentERdata, Netherlands']
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Internet has caused a revolution in data collection and web panels have become one of the major data collection tools in market research. But also in governmental and scientific studies internet panels are increasingly used. One of the key issues in internet panels ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Edith De Leeuw - University of Utrecht, Netherlands', u'Annette Scherpenzeel - CentERdata, Netherlands']
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Internet has caused a revolution in data collection and web panels have become one of the major data collection tools in market research. But also in governmental and scientific studies internet panels are increasingly used. One of the key issues in internet panels ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Edith De Leeuw - University of Utrecht, Netherlands', u'Annette Scherpenzeel - CentERdata, Netherlands']
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This session will focus on usability tests of web-based surveys. Papers should be about usability studies that have been conducted on web-based surveys, including low-fidelity, medium-fidelity, and high-fidelity studies. Eye-tracking studies and iterative testing studies are particularly welcomed, and studies that include diverse ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Emily Geisen - RTI International, United States', u'Jennifer Romano Bergstrom - US Census Bureau, United States']
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This session will focus on usability tests of web-based surveys. Papers should be about usability studies that have been conducted on web-based surveys, including low-fidelity, medium-fidelity, and high-fidelity studies. Eye-tracking studies and iterative testing studies are particularly welcomed, and studies that include diverse ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Caroline Jarrett - Effortmark Limited, United Kingdom', u'Jennifer Romano Bergstrom - US Census Bureau, United States']
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Web surveys have become a viable and cost-effective mode for data collection in many sectors. Web surveys also bring with them unique statistical issues (e.g., sampling frames, nonresponse error, measurement error) and unique technological issues (e.g., data security) relative to other survey modes. ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Matt Jans - US Census Bureau, United States', u'Jennifer Romano Bergstrom - US Census Bureau, United States', u'Sue Ellen Hansen - University of Michigan, United States']
Topic: Unit Nonresponse and attrition
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Groves (2006: 668) gave a number of clear guidelines to survey methodologists in his paper on the relationship between Nonresponse Rates and Nonresponse Bias in Household Surveys, the first of which was: Blind pursuit of high response rates in probability samples is unwise; ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Ineke Stoop - The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP, Netherlands', u'Achim Koch - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Andy Peytchev - RTI International, United States']
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Groves (2006: 668) gave a number of clear guidelines to survey methodologists in his paper on the relationship between Nonresponse Rates and Nonresponse Bias in Household Surveys, the first of which was: Blind pursuit of high response rates in probability samples is unwise; ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Achim Koch - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Andy Peytchev - RTI International, United States', u'Ineke Stoop - The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP, Netherlands']
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Groves (2006: 668) gave a number of clear guidelines to survey methodologists in his paper on the relationship between Nonresponse Rates and Nonresponse Bias in Household Surveys, the first of which was: Blind pursuit of high response rates in probability samples is unwise; ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Achim Koch - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Andy Peytchev - RTI International, United States', u'Ineke Stoop - The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP, Netherlands']
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Modern societies are characterized by increasing levels of heterogeneity and segmentation. The rise of transnational migrations and the presence, within national borders, of different types of religious, ethnic or linguistic minorities, led to an increased attention of institutions on the representation of minorities ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Francesco Lagan\xe0 - University of Lausanne, Switzerland', u'Lavinia Gianettoni - Misc - University of Lausanne, Switzerland', u'Oliver Lipps - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland']
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Coordinated by: [u'Dominique Joye - University of Lausanne, Switzerland']
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Coordinated by: [u'Dominique Joye - University of Lausanne, Switzerland']
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Most longitudinal surveys devote considerable resources to minimising attrition. Panel maintenance strategies such as change-of-address mailings and newsletters between data collection waves and field strategies such as interviewer tracking and refusal conversation are employed to minimise sample loss through failure to locate and ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Lisa Calderwood - Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom']
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I am proposing this session in conjunction with my colleague, Dr Damon Berridge [also from Lancaster University]. In recent years, a series of new developments in the statistical modelling of longitudinal data have opened up new opportunities for handling the issue of attrition/dropout ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Roger Penn - Lancaster University, United Kingdom', u'Damon Berridge - Lancaster University, United Kingdom']
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The methodological studies are primarily interested in elaborating post-corrections such as weighting of sample in order to improve their representativeness. They manage to assess complex models including a set of socio-demographic or attitudinal variables. In this workshop, we propose to investigate an alternative ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Alexandre Pollien - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland', u'Mich\xe8le Ernst St\xe4hli - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland']
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The methodological studies are primarily interested in elaborating post-corrections such as weighting of sample in order to improve their representativeness. They manage to assess complex models including a set of socio-demographic or attitudinal variables. In this workshop, we propose to investigate an alternative ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Mich\xe8le Ernst St\xe4hli - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland', u'Alexandre Pollien - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland']
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In recent years longitudinal surveys have become increasingly popular for studying change and stability in a wide variety of phenomenon within society including socio-economic conditions as well as physical health and mental well-being. The availability of accurate and valid data, therefore, on change ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Ulrich Krieger - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, Germany', u'Peter Lugtig - Utrecht University, Netherlands', u'Noah Uhrig - University of Essex, United Kingdom', u'Emanuela Sala - University of Milano Bicocca, Italy']
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In recent years longitudinal surveys have become increasingly popular for studying change and stability in a wide variety of phenomenon within society including socio-economic conditions as well as physical health and mental well-being. The availability of accurate and valid data, therefore, on change ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Ulrich Krieger - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, Germany', u'Peter Lugtig - Utrecht University, Netherlands', u'Emanuela Sala - University of Milano Bicocca, Italy', u'Noah Uhrig - University of Essex, United Kingdom']
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In recent years longitudinal surveys have become increasingly popular for studying change and stability in a wide variety of phenomenon within society including socio-economic conditions as well as physical health and mental well-being. The availability of accurate and valid data, therefore, on change ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Ulrich Krieger - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, Germany', u'Peter Lugtig - Utrecht University, Netherlands', u'Emanuela Sala - University of Milano Bicocca, Italy', u'Noah Uhrig - University of Essex, United Kingdom']
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In recent years longitudinal surveys have become increasingly popular for studying change and stability in a wide variety of phenomenon within society including socio-economic conditions as well as physical health and mental well-being. The availability of accurate and valid data, therefore, on change ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Ulrich Krieger - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, Germany', u'Peter Lugtig - Utrecht University, Netherlands', u'Emanuela Sala - University of Milano Bicocca, Italy', u'Noah Uhrig - University of Essex, United Kingdom']
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In recent years longitudinal surveys have become increasingly popular for studying change and stability in a wide variety of phenomenon within society including socio-economic conditions as well as physical health and mental well-being. The availability of accurate and valid data, therefore, on change ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Ulrich Krieger - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, Germany', u'Peter Lugtig - Utrecht University, Netherlands', u'Emanuela Sala - University of Milano Bicocca, Italy', u'Noah Uhrig - University of Essex, United Kingdom']
Topic: Weighting and imputation
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Throughout the last couple of years multiple imputation has become an increasingly popular and widely accepted method to deal with missing data. Multiple imputation is one prominent and - if properly applied - well justified method to allow valid analyses of incompletely observed ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Jost Reinecke - University of Bielefeld , Germany', u'Martin Spiess - Hamburg University, Department of Psychology, Germany', u'Kristian Kleinke - University of Bielefeld , Germany', u'Roel de Jong - University of Hamburg, Faculty of Psychology, Germany']
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Throughout the last couple of years multiple imputation has become an increasingly popular and widely accepted method to deal with missing data. Multiple imputation is one prominent and - if properly applied - well justified method to allow valid analyses of incompletely observed ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Roel de Jong - University of Hamburg, Faculty of Psychology, Germany', u'Kristian Kleinke - University of Bielefeld , Germany', u'Jost Reinecke - University of Bielefeld , Germany', u'Martin Spiess - Hamburg University, Department of Psychology, Germany']
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As scientific surveys are indispensable instruments of social research, their results can impact significantly on public opinion formation and official decision making. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to social scientists and policy makers alike that no wrong, distorted, vague or misleading conclusions ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Stephanie Steinmetz - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands', u'Kea Tijdens - Erasmus University, Netherlands']
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This session is centered on the particular problems encountered with the modeling of weights in household panels. The goal is to collect implementable solutions (including ones that may be difficult to implement) for those who work in weighting. Particular interest will be given ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Matthias Schonlau - University of Waterloo, Canada']
Topic: Survey mode
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The session will address the parallel, sequential, and simultaneous use of multiple modes in surveys. Among possible topics are: design of multimode approaches to survey data collection; integration of sampling frames across modes; harmonization of questionnaire designs for multiple modes; sequences of modes; ... more >
Coordinated by: [u"Colm O'Muircheartaigh - University of Chicago, United States"]
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Mixed-mode surveys were already gaining popularity at the end of the 20th, but have become a necessity in the first decade of the 21th century. Growing nonresponse in all survey modes is forcing researchers to use a combination of methods to reach an ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Edith De Leeuw - University of Utrecht, Netherlands', u'Don A. Dillman - Washington State University, United States']
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Mixed-mode surveys were already gaining popularity at the end of the 20th, but have become a necessity in the first decade of the 21th century. Growing nonresponse in all survey modes is forcing researchers to use a combination of methods to reach an ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Don A. Dillman - Washington State University, United States', u'Edith De Leeuw - University of Utrecht, Netherlands']
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Mixed-mode surveys were already gaining popularity at the end of the 20th, but have become a necessity in the first decade of the 21th century. Growing nonresponse in all survey modes is forcing researchers to use a combination of methods to reach an ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Don A. Dillman - Washington State University, United States', u'Edith De Leeuw - University of Utrecht, Netherlands']
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The importance of mixed-mode surveys have increased over the recent years and gained special attention with a widespread use of web surveys. The web option is especially intriguing as it offers rapid data collection at low costs, but at the same time also ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Vasja Vehovar - University of Ljublana, Slovenia', u'Nejc Berzelak - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia']
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Even though the use of Web surveys has increased over the past decade, telephone surveys still represent a substantial share of all surveys conducted. The methodology for conducting fixed-line telephone surveys is well developed, but times are changing. Mobile phones have had a ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Robert Manchin - Gallup Europe, Belgium', u'Marek Fuchs - Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany', u'Femke De Keulenaer - Gallup Europe, Belgium']
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Even though the use of Web surveys has increased over the past decade, telephone surveys still represent a substantial share of all surveys conducted. The methodology for conducting fixed-line telephone surveys is well developed, but times are changing. Mobile phones have had a ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Marek Fuchs - Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany', u'Femke De Keulenaer - Gallup Europe, Belgium', u'Robert Manchin - Gallup Europe, Belgium']
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In the EU and worldwide a growing amount of surveys is collected with a mix of multiple survey modes. Several research organisations are considering conducting surveys using mixed-mode data collection designs. Often their motivation comes from available budgets, but it is also argued ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Barry Schouten - Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Netherlands', u'Joop Hox - University of Utrecht, Netherlands']
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There is increasing interest in the use of mixed modes of data collection, driven by a desire to improve survey response rates and reduce fieldwork costs. Giving respondents alternative modes may encourage sample members to participate who would otherwise have failed to do ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Steven Hope - National Centre for Social Research - NatCen, United Kingdom', u'Gerry Nicolaas - National Centre for Social Research - NatCen, United Kingdom']
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There is increasing interest in the use of mixed modes of data collection, driven by a desire to improve survey response rates and reduce fieldwork costs. Giving respondents alternative modes may encourage sample members to participate who would otherwise have failed to do ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Steven Hope - National Centre for Social Research - NatCen, United Kingdom', u'Gerry Nicolaas - National Centre for Social Research - NatCen, United Kingdom']
Topic: Data linkage
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This is a session to demonstrate how census and sample survey data can be harnessed for designing high quality operating data system where administrative data, despite its inherent limitations, are used to strike the balance between fundamental issues of data quality and cost. ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Young Chun - U.S. Census Bureau, United States', u'Fritz Scheuren - NORC at the University of Chicago, United States']
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The use of multiple data sources to address substantive research questions is becoming increasingly common. However, bringing together such multiple data sources itself throws up complex and interesting methodological questions. This session aims to explore some of those questions across several interrelated areas: ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Mark Elliot - University of Manchester, United Kingdom']
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The use of multiple data sources to address substantive research questions is becoming increasingly common. However, bringing together such multiple data sources itself throws up complex and interesting methodological questions. This session aims to explore some of those questions across several interrelated areas: ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Mark Elliot - University of Manchester, United Kingdom']
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The use of multiple data sources to address substantive research questions is becoming increasingly common. However, bringing together such multiple data sources itself throws up complex and interesting methodological questions. This session aims to explore some of those questions across several interrelated areas: ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Mark Elliot - University of Manchester, United Kingdom']
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Researchers are invited to submit proposals for papers at the session "Linking survey data with administrative data" at the European Survey Research Association conference, July, 18-25, 2011 in Lausanne. Researches might consider linking survey with administrative data appealing for several reasons. For example, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Julie Korbmacher - SHARE, MEA, University of Mannheim, Germany', u'Annelies Blom - Survex - Survey Methods Consulting, Germany', u'Joe Sakshaug - JPSM, University of Michigan, United States', u'Mark Trappmann - Institute for Employment Research, Germany']
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Researchers are invited to submit proposals for papers at the session "Linking survey data with administrative data" at the European Survey Research Association conference, July, 18-25, 2011 in Lausanne. Researches might consider linking survey with administrative data appealing for several reasons. For example, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Annelies Blom - Survex - Survey Methods Consulting, Germany', u'Julie Korbmacher - SHARE, MEA, University of Mannheim, Germany', u'Joe Sakshaug - JPSM, University of Michigan, United States', u'Mark Trappmann - Institute for Employment Research, Germany']
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Researchers are invited to submit proposals for papers at the session "Linking survey data with administrative data" at the European Survey Research Association conference, July, 18-25, 2011 in Lausanne. Researches might consider linking survey with administrative data appealing for several reasons. For example, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Jonathan Burton - University of Essex, United Kingdom']
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Researchers are invited to submit proposals for papers at the session "Linking survey data with administrative data" at the European Survey Research Association conference, July, 18-25, 2011 in Lausanne. Researches might consider linking survey with administrative data appealing for several reasons. For example, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Joe Sakshaug - JPSM, University of Michigan, United States']
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In the European Social Survey 2008/2009 respondents were asked a series of questions relating to government responsibility for welfare provision. Researchers analysing the resulting data need to be aware of differences in welfare regimes and social security systems across countries. They should also ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Ineke Stoop - The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP, Netherlands', u'Eric Harrison - City University London, United Kingdom']
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In the European Social Survey 2008/2009 respondents were asked a series of questions relating to government responsibility for welfare provision. Researchers analysing the resulting data need to be aware of differences in welfare regimes and social security systems across countries. They should also ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Eric Harrison - City University London, United Kingdom', u'Ineke Stoop - The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP, Netherlands']
Topic: Methods for cross-national design and analysis
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Although the last fifty years has witnessed a large growth in the development of cross-national surveys a definition for cross-national analysis can usefully draw on Elder's (1973) approach "knowing reality through the examination for similarities and differences between data gathered from more than ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Dorren McMahon - Geary Institute, Ireland']
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Coordinated by: [u'Jean-Marie Le Goff - University of Lausanne, Switzerland']
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Educational surveys are getting increasingly important as a way of measuring and monitoring skills and competencies of various age groups in the population. Apart from well-established large-scale international surveys like PISA or TIMSS, new national educational surveys are emerging. Several methodological issues are ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Hans Kiesl - University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Germany', u'Alina Matei - Institute of Statistics, University of Neuchatel & IRDP Neuchatel, Switzerland', u'Leyla Mohadjer - Westat, United States']
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Educational surveys are getting increasingly important as a way of measuring and monitoring skills and competencies of various age groups in the population. Apart from well-established large-scale international surveys like PISA or TIMSS, new national educational surveys are emerging. Several methodological issues are ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Hans Kiesl - University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Germany', u'Alina Matei - Institute of Statistics, University of Neuchatel & IRDP Neuchatel, Switzerland', u'Leyla Mohadjer - Westat, United States']
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Educational surveys are getting increasingly important as a way of measuring and monitoring skills and competencies of various age groups in the population. Apart from well-established large-scale international surveys like PISA or TIMSS, new national educational surveys are emerging. Several methodological issues are ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Hans Kiesl - University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Germany', u'Alina Matei - Institute of Statistics, University of Neuchatel & IRDP Neuchatel, Switzerland', u'Leyla Mohadjer - Westat, United States']
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At the moment comparative research across countries is very popular however the procedure to do the comparison is not yet clear. Often the choice of countries is very ad hoc and the number of countries is rather small. This would suggest that multilevel ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Willem E. Saris - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain', u'Paolo Moncagatta - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain', u'Daniel Oberski - Tilburg University, Netherlands']
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At the moment comparative research across countries is very popular however the procedure to do the comparison is not yet clear. Often the choice of countries is very ad hoc and the number of countries is rather small. This would suggest that multilevel ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Paolo Moncagatta - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain', u'Willem E. Saris - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain']
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Coordinated by: [u'Marieke Voorpostel - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland']
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Multilevel analyses in comparative research rests on a rich repertoire of micro level hypotheses which are mostly justified through some theory of rational action. Macro level hypotheses, however, are less well established. They can be classified according to whether they refer to means ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Heiner Meulemann - University of K\xf6ln, Germany', u'Hans-J\xfcrgen Hans-J\xfcrgen Andre\xdf - University of Cologne, Germany']
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Multilevel analyses in comparative research rests on a rich repertoire of micro level hypotheses which are mostly justified through some theory of rational action. Macro level hypotheses, however, are less well established. They can be classified according to whether they refer to means ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Hans-J\xfcrgen Hans-J\xfcrgen Andre\xdf - University of Cologne, Germany', u'Heiner Meulemann - University of K\xf6ln, Germany']
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The proposed session is related to a research project called "Latent variable modelling of categorical data: Tools of analysis for cross-national surveys" at the London School of Economics. Researchers of the project would submit one or more papers to the session. In a ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Jouni Kuha - London School of Economics, United Kingdom']
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The proposed session is related to a research project called "Latent variable modelling of categorical data: Tools of analysis for cross-national surveys" at the London School of Economics. Researchers of the project would submit one or more papers to the session. In a ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Jouni Kuha - London School of Economics, United Kingdom']
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The aim of this session is to present methodological approaches for getting validity and reliability evidence when tests and scales are used in cross-cultural surveys. Survey methodologists and psychometricians must analyse to what extent tests and scales provide reliable and valid measurements when ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Mar\xeda-Dolores Hidalgo - University of Murcia, Spain', u'Jan Dietrich Reinhardt - University of Lucerne, Switzerland']
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The aim of this session is to present methodological approaches for getting validity and reliability evidence when tests and scales are used in cross-cultural surveys. Survey methodologists and psychometricians must analyse to what extent tests and scales provide reliable and valid measurements when ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Mar\xeda-Dolores Hidalgo - University of Murcia, Spain', u'Jan Dietrich Reinhardt - University of Lucerne, Switzerland']
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Most data analysis is hugely dependent on the analyst's ability to subdivide the data set into subsamples based in the occupational position and/or educational attainment. This places a premium on the accurate measurement of these socio-economic variables. In the context of cross-national research ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Eric Harrison - City University London, United Kingdom']
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WHAT IS QUALITY? The quality of statistical data can be assessed with regard to a number of criteria. • Relevance: correspondence between the information captured in the statistics and the information required by its users. • Accuracy: proximity of statistical estimates to the ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Gijs van Houten - Eurofound, Ireland']
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A series of factors have recently combined their effects to provoke an increased interest in contextual data among survey researchers. The institutionalisation of high quality inter-national survey programs and the development of sophisticated statistical tools to articulate contextual effects with micro-level data analysis ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Guy Elcheroth - University of Lausanne, Switzerland']
Topic: Paradata and fieldwork
Topic: Data archiving
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WHAT DO SURVEY RESEARCHERS WANT FROM DATA ARCHIVES THESE DAYS? The purpose of this session is to bring together survey researchers who work extensively with public datasets and data archives whose mission centers on the acquisition, processing, preservation, and dissemination of these resources. ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Peter Granda - University of Michigan \u2013 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), United States']
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WHAT DO SURVEY RESEARCHERS WANT FROM DATA ARCHIVES THESE DAYS? The purpose of this session is to bring together survey researchers who work extensively with public datasets and data archives whose mission centers on the acquisition, processing, preservation, and dissemination of these resources. ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Peter Granda - University of Michigan \u2013 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), United States']
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WHAT DO SURVEY RESEARCHERS WANT FROM DATA ARCHIVES THESE DAYS? The purpose of this session is to bring together survey researchers who work extensively with public datasets and data archives whose mission centers on the acquisition, processing, preservation, and dissemination of these resources. ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Peter Granda - University of Michigan \u2013 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), United States']
Topic: Longitudinal surveys
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Over the past decades social surveys have become an indispensable tool for social monitoring. Today, scholars studying social change have the data of many national and international survey programs at their finger tips. The strength of surveys like the General Social Survey in ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Christof Wolf - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Tilo Beckers - University of D\xfcsseldorf, Germany']
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Over the past decades social surveys have become an indispensable tool for social monitoring. Today, scholars studying social change have the data of many national and international survey programs at their finger tips. The strength of surveys like the General Social Survey in ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Tilo Beckers - University of D\xfcsseldorf, Germany', u'Christof Wolf - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany']
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Coordinated by: [u'Jean-Marie Le Goff - University of Lausanne, Switzerland']
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The importance of longitudinal data to measure social and economic change has long been recognised. Panel surveys collect data about different points in time by interviewing sample members at regular intervals. The repeated measures generated in this way can, amongst others, be used ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Jonathan Burton - University of Essex, United Kingdom', u'Emanuela Sala - University of Milano Bicocca, Italy']
Topic: Health Examination Surveys
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Health examination surveys (HES) are population surveys which include questionnaire items, physiological measurements and often also biological samples. HESs are an important data source for health information which can be used for policy making, evaluation of the health promotion activities as well as ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Hanna Tolonen - National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland']
Topic: Substantive applications of survey research
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We invite social scientists working in the field of Migration to submit their empirical work based on European survey data. The topics include but are not limited to the analysis of attitudes towards immigrants, immigrants' assimilation, culture transmission, the effect of migration regulation ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Mariya Aleksynska - CEPII, France']
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We invite social scientists working in the field of Migration to submit their empirical work based on European survey data. The topics include but are not limited to the analysis of attitudes towards immigrants, immigrants' assimilation, culture transmission, the effect of migration regulation ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Mariya Aleksynska - CEPII, France']
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We invite social scientists working in the field of Migration to submit their empirical work based on European survey data. The topics include but are not limited to the analysis of attitudes towards immigrants, immigrants' assimilation, culture transmission, the effect of migration regulation ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Mariya Aleksynska - CEPII, France']
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Values have held an important position in the social sciences since their inception. Max Weber treated values as a central component in his analysis of capitalist society, linking the development of capitalism to the values of the Protestant Ethic. Values played an important ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Eldad Davidov - University of Z\xfcrich, Switzerland', u'Peter Schmidt - University of Giessen, Germany', u'Constanze Beierlein - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany']
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Values have held an important position in the social sciences since their inception. Max Weber treated values as a central component in his analysis of capitalist society, linking the development of capitalism to the values of the Protestant Ethic. Values played an important ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Constanze Beierlein - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Eldad Davidov - University of Z\xfcrich, Switzerland', u'Peter Schmidt - University of Giessen, Germany']
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Values have held an important position in the social sciences since their inception. Max Weber treated values as a central component in his analysis of capitalist society, linking the development of capitalism to the values of the Protestant Ethic. Values played an important ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Constanze Beierlein - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Eldad Davidov - University of Z\xfcrich, Switzerland', u'Peter Schmidt - University of Giessen, Germany']
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Values have held an important position in the social sciences since their inception. Max Weber treated values as a central component in his analysis of capitalist society, linking the development of capitalism to the values of the Protestant Ethic. Values played an important ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Constanze Beierlein - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Eldad Davidov - University of Z\xfcrich, Switzerland', u'Peter Schmidt - University of Giessen, Germany']
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Values have held an important position in the social sciences since their inception. Max Weber treated values as a central component in his analysis of capitalist society, linking the development of capitalism to the values of the Protestant Ethic. Values played an important ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Constanze Beierlein - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Eldad Davidov - University of Z\xfcrich, Switzerland', u'Peter Schmidt - University of Giessen, Germany']
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We invite social scientists to submit their empirical work based on European survey data. The topics include but are not limited to the analysis of preferences for redistribution; income satisfaction; quality of life; subjective well-being. The goal of this session is to promote ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Mariya Aleksynska - CEPII, France']
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We invite social scientists to submit their empirical work based on European survey data. The topics include but are not limited to the analysis of preferences for redistribution; income satisfaction; quality of life; subjective well-being. The goal of this session is to promote ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Mariya Aleksynska - CEPII, France']
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Public trust and system legitimacy facilitate the operation and justify the existence of social and political institutions across Europe. When institutions enjoy the right to govern and the recognition of that right by the general populace, public participation, cooperation and compliance is enhanced. ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Jonathan P. Jackson - London School of Economics, United Kingdom']
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Public trust and system legitimacy facilitate the operation and justify the existence of social and political institutions across Europe. When institutions enjoy the right to govern and the recognition of that right by the general populace, public participation, cooperation and compliance is enhanced. ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Jonathan P. Jackson - London School of Economics, United Kingdom']
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Coordinated by: [u'Marieke Voorpostel - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland']
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Coordinated by: [u'Kathrin Kissau - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland']
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Coordinated by: [u'Sandra Penic - University of Lausanne, Switzerland']
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Introduction Having entered political and social science discourse in the 1990s, civil society today constitutes a major concept for sociological research, with a broad range of theoretical, methodological and policy-related implications. Prominently among them are topics related to the transition from industrial to ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Michael Hoelscher - University of Heidelberg, Germany', u'Helmut Anheier - University of Heidelberg, Germany']
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Coordinated by: [u'Guy Elcheroth - University of Lausanne, Switzerland']
Topic: Paradata
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This session collects papers that study trends and patterns of non-response bias using para data on the one hand, and explore methods of non-response bias adjustment using these data on the other hand. Paradata includes useful information including the contact history information (ex. ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Hideko Matsuo - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium', u'Jaak Billiet - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium']
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Researchers are invited to submit proposals for papers at the session "Using Paradata to Improve Survey Data Quality" at the European Survey Research Association conference, July, 18-25, 2011 in Lausanne. "Paradata" are measures generated as a by-product of the survey data collection process, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Oliver Lipps - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland', u'Volker Stock\xe9 - University of Bamberg, Germany', u'Annelies Blom - Survex - Survey Methods Consulting, Germany']
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Researchers are invited to submit proposals for papers at the session "Using Paradata to Improve Survey Data Quality" at the European Survey Research Association conference, July, 18-25, 2011 in Lausanne. "Paradata" are measures generated as a by-product of the survey data collection process, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Annelies Blom - Survex - Survey Methods Consulting, Germany', u'Oliver Lipps - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland', u'Volker Stock\xe9 - University of Bamberg, Germany']
Topic: Response Styles
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This session will provide a series of original investigations on data quality in both national and international contexts. The starting premise is that all survey data contain a mixture of substantive and methodologically-induced variation. Most current work focuses primarily on random measurement error, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'J\xf6rg Blasius - University of Bonn, Germany']
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This session will provide a series of original investigations on data quality in both national and international contexts. The starting premise is that all survey data contain a mixture of substantive and methodologically-induced variation. Most current work focuses primarily on random measurement error, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'J\xf6rg Blasius - University of Bonn, Germany']
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This session will provide a series of original investigations on data quality in both national and international contexts. The starting premise is that all survey data contain a mixture of substantive and methodologically-induced variation. Most current work focuses primarily on random measurement error, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'J\xf6rg Blasius - University of Bonn, Germany']
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This session will provide a series of original investigations on data quality in both national and international contexts. The starting premise is that all survey data contain a mixture of substantive and methodologically-induced variation. Most current work focuses primarily on random measurement error, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'J\xf6rg Blasius - University of Bonn, Germany']
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This session invites papers located at the nexus of general human values, personality characteristics, and response styles. How do general human values and/or personality characteristics influence response styles, such as acquiescence, extreme or middling response styles? How can the answers to general human ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Michael Braun - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Timothy Johnson - University of Illinois at Chicago, United States']
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Conventional data collection techniques usually cause refuse to answer or untruthful responses when people are asked personal or sensitive questions such as gambling, alcoholism, sexual behaviour, abortion, drug taking, tax evasion, illegal income, and so on. As a result, it is difficult to ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Pier Francesco Perri - University of Calabria, Department of Economics and Statistics, Italy']
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Many surveys include "sensitive questions", that is, questions pertaining to private information, socially frowned upon attitudes, or illegal behaviour, however, misreporting and item non-response threaten the validity of survey estimates for these questions. Respondents may fear that the disclosure of self-discrediting information (e.g. ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Ivar Krumpal - Universit\xe4t Leipzig, Germany', u'Ben Jann - University of Bern, Switzerland']
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Many surveys include "sensitive questions", that is, questions pertaining to private information, socially frowned upon attitudes, or illegal behaviour, however, misreporting and item non-response threaten the validity of survey estimates for these questions. Respondents may fear that the disclosure of self-discrediting information (e.g. ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Ben Jann - University of Bern, Switzerland', u'Ivar Krumpal - Universit\xe4t Leipzig, Germany']
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Many surveys include "sensitive questions", that is, questions pertaining to private information, socially frowned upon attitudes, or illegal behaviour, however, misreporting and item non-response threaten the validity of survey estimates for these questions. Respondents may fear that the disclosure of self-discrediting information (e.g. ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Ivar Krumpal - Universit\xe4t Leipzig, Germany', u'Ben Jann - University of Bern, Switzerland']
Topic: Special Populations
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Surveys are an important tool of social science research. They provide, among others, data on the attitudes, behaviors, health issues, political interests and of the population in a given society which in turn might be used in the political decision making process or ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Susanne Vogl - Katholische Universit\xe4t Eichst\xe4tt-Ingolstadt, Germany', u'Marek Fuchs - Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany']
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Surveys are an important tool of social science research. They provide, among others, data on the attitudes, behaviors, health issues, political interests and of the population in a given society which in turn might be used in the political decision making process or ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Marek Fuchs - Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany', u'Susanne Vogl - Katholische Universit\xe4t Eichst\xe4tt-Ingolstadt, Germany']
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Abstract: The session aims to address the challenges involved in carrying out surveys that study ethnic minorities and immigrant-background communities, both exclusively and as part of larger samples. For a long time non-naturalised immigrants have been a neglected population in social surveys. Recently, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Laura Morales - Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester, United Kingdom', u'M\xf3nica M\xe9ndez - Centro de Investigaciones Sociol\xf3gicas (CIS), Spain']
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Abstract: The session aims to address the challenges involved in carrying out surveys that study ethnic minorities and immigrant-background communities, both exclusively and as part of larger samples. For a long time non-naturalised immigrants have been a neglected population in social surveys. Recently, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'M\xf3nica M\xe9ndez - Centro de Investigaciones Sociol\xf3gicas (CIS), Spain', u'Laura Morales - Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester, United Kingdom']
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Abstract: The session aims to address the challenges involved in carrying out surveys that study ethnic minorities and immigrant-background communities, both exclusively and as part of larger samples. For a long time non-naturalised immigrants have been a neglected population in social surveys. Recently, ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'M\xf3nica M\xe9ndez - Centro de Investigaciones Sociol\xf3gicas (CIS), Spain', u'Laura Morales - Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester, United Kingdom']
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There are many examples of large-scale surveys which collect a variety of different types of data from children and young people; physical measurements, developmental assessments and biological samples as well as questionnaire data. Although it is widely accepted as that such data can ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Lisa Calderwood - Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom', u'Kate Smith - Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom']
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There are many examples of large-scale surveys which collect a variety of different types of data from children and young people; physical measurements, developmental assessments and biological samples as well as questionnaire data. Although it is widely accepted as that such data can ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Lisa Calderwood - Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom', u'Kate Smith - Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom']
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There are many examples of large-scale surveys which collect a variety of different types of data from children and young people; physical measurements, developmental assessments and biological samples as well as questionnaire data. Although it is widely accepted as that such data can ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Lisa Calderwood - Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom', u'Kate Smith - Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom']
Topic: Socio-economic variables in cross-national surveys
Topic: Interviewer effects
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Survey methodology has long recognized the essential role of the interviewer in the quality of survey estimates. The interviewer is the key agent of the researcher: interviewers define the purposes of the survey to the sample persons, provide them with a key rationale ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Gabriele Durrant - University of Southampton, United Kingdom', u'Ian Brunton-Smith - University of Surrey, United Kingdom']
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Survey methodology has long recognized the essential role of the interviewer in the quality of survey estimates. The interviewer is the key agent of the researcher: interviewers define the purposes of the survey to the sample persons, provide them with a key rationale ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Gabriele Durrant - University of Southampton, United Kingdom', u'Ian Brunton-Smith - University of Surrey, United Kingdom']
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Telephone surveys represent a large proportion of quantitative data collection in the social sciences. Yet, there are serious concerns regarding many aspects of data quality, namely accuracy of answers, missing data and low response rates. In this session we are particularly interested in ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Gerrit Bauer - University of Munich (LMU), Germany', u'Henning Best - University of Mannheim, Germany']
Topic: Methods for cross-national design and analysis
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Coordinated by: [u'Oriane Sarrasin - Misc - University of Lausanne, Switzerland']
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The European Values Study (EVS) is a unique research project into Europe's basic values. First, it spans a period of almost 30 years with surveys in 1981, 1990, 1999, and 2008. Second, EVS has an extensive geographical coverage. In Europe, the survey has ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Wolfgang Jagodzinski - GESIS, Germany', u'Ruud Luijkx - Tilburg University, Netherlands']
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The European Values Study (EVS) is a unique research project into Europe's basic values. First, it spans a period of almost 30 years with surveys in 1981, 1990, 1999, and 2008. Second, EVS has an extensive geographical coverage. In Europe, the survey has ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Wolfgang Jagodzinski - GESIS, Germany', u'Ruud Luijkx - Tilburg University, Netherlands']
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The European Values Study (EVS) is a unique research project into Europe's basic values. First, it spans a period of almost 30 years with surveys in 1981, 1990, 1999, and 2008. Second, EVS has an extensive geographical coverage. In Europe, the survey has ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Wolfgang Jagodzinski - GESIS, Germany', u'Ruud Luijkx - Tilburg University, Netherlands']
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The European Values Study (EVS) is a unique research project into Europe's basic values. First, it spans a period of almost 30 years with surveys in 1981, 1990, 1999, and 2008. Second, EVS has an extensive geographical coverage. In Europe, the survey has ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Wolfgang Jagodzinski - GESIS, Germany', u'Ruud Luijkx - Tilburg University, Netherlands']
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Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of studies comparing geographical entities, time points and/or social categories using both a conceptual and a statistical multilevel perspective. This development has been accompanied by a number of methodological expansions. Beginning with the multilevel regression model ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Bart Meuleman - University of Leuven, Belgium', u'Elmar Schlueter - University of Cologne, Research Institute for Sociology, Germany']
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Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of studies comparing geographical entities, time points and/or social categories using both a conceptual and a statistical multilevel perspective. This development has been accompanied by a number of methodological expansions. Beginning with the multilevel regression model ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Bart Meuleman - University of Leuven, Belgium', u'Elmar Schlueter - University of Cologne, Research Institute for Sociology, Germany']
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Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of studies comparing geographical entities, time points and/or social categories using both a conceptual and a statistical multilevel perspective. This development has been accompanied by a number of methodological expansions. Beginning with the multilevel regression model ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Bart Meuleman - University of Leuven, Belgium', u'Elmar Schlueter - University of Cologne, Research Institute for Sociology, Germany']
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Socio-economic variables make up an important part of the data from cross-national surveys, and play a vital role in the analyses. However, obtaining high quality socio-economic variables at a national and a cross-national level often represents a challange to the survey organisers as ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'J\xfcrgen H.P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u"Uwe Warner - Centre d'Etudes de Populations, de Pauvret\xe9 et de Politiques Socio-Economiques (CEPS / INSTEAD), Luxembourg", u'Hilde Orten - Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD), Norway']
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Socio-economic variables make up an important part of the data from cross-national surveys, and play a vital role in the analyses. However, obtaining high quality socio-economic variables at a national and a cross-national level often represents a challange to the survey organisers as ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'J\xfcrgen H.P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Hilde Orten - Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD), Norway', u"Uwe Warner - Centre d'Etudes de Populations, de Pauvret\xe9 et de Politiques Socio-Economiques (CEPS / INSTEAD), Luxembourg"]
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Socio-economic variables make up an important part of the data from cross-national surveys, and play a vital role in the analyses. However, obtaining high quality socio-economic variables at a national and a cross-national level often represents a challange to the survey organisers as ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'J\xfcrgen H.P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Hilde Orten - Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD), Norway', u"Uwe Warner - Centre d'Etudes de Populations, de Pauvret\xe9 et de Politiques Socio-Economiques (CEPS / INSTEAD), Luxembourg"]
Topic: Questionnaire design and testing
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Survey researchers and professionals have become increasingly aware of difficulties that may be faced to make valid comparisons in cross-cultural or national settings. Conceptual problems and methodological biases can undermine the utility of high-cost survey projects. Conceptual frameworks, methodological innovations, and "best practices" ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Kristen Miller - National Center for Health Statistics , United States', u'Jose Luis Padilla - University of Granada, Spain']
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Researchers were invited to submit papers dealing with design of rating scales for questions/items to measure opinions or behaviour in surveys. Especially of interest are Likert scales as well as their alternatives. The papers could include questions about the several design aspects of ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Natalja Menold - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany']
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Researchers were invited to submit papers dealing with design of rating scales for questions/items to measure opinions or behaviour in surveys. Especially of interest are Likert scales as well as their alternatives. The papers could include questions about the several design aspects of ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Natalja Menold - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany']
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Researchers were invited to submit papers dealing with design of rating scales for questions/items to measure opinions or behaviour in surveys. Especially of interest are Likert scales as well as their alternatives. The papers could include questions about the several design aspects of ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Natalja Menold - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany']
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Janet Harkness Brian Kleiner Isabelle Renschler This session focuses on contexts in which a written standardized questionnaire is deliberately adapted for use with new populations or in new modes, or is modified to accommodate new conditions and contexts in a less fully scripted ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Janet Harkness - University of Nebraska, Lincoln, United States', u'Brian Kleiner - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland', u'Beth-Ellen Pennell - University of Michigan, United States', u'Isabelle Renschler - FORS - Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, Switzerland']
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Session proposed by Dorothée Behr and Brita Dorer, both GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Science For this session we invite papers on state-of-the-art methodologies in questionnaire translation. These papers may range from integration of translation into the questionnaire design process over ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Doroth\xe9e Behr - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Brita Dorer - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany']
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Session proposed by Dorothée Behr and Brita Dorer, both GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Science For this session we invite papers on state-of-the-art methodologies in questionnaire translation. These papers may range from integration of translation into the questionnaire design process over ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Doroth\xe9e Behr - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Brita Dorer - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany']
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Cognitive interviewing as a way of pretesting questionnaires developed within a field – survey methodology – that is dominated by quantitative approaches. In essence cognitive interviewing is a qualitative method that represents multiple features of a qualitative research approach. The similarities with qualitative ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Hennie R. Boeije - University of Utrecht, Netherlands', u'Gordon Willis - National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States']
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During recent years survey researchers' interest in the measurement of psychological constructs has grow substantially. The European Social Survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel, the UK Longitudinal Study, the Dutch Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Beatrice Rammstedt - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'J\xfcrgen Schupp - SOEP - German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Germany']
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During recent years survey researchers' interest in the measurement of psychological constructs has grow substantially. The European Social Survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel, the UK Longitudinal Study, the Dutch Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Beatrice Rammstedt - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'J\xfcrgen Schupp - SOEP - German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Germany']
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A common feature of uniting the well-known cross-national survey projects such as ISSP, CSES, ESS, or SHARE is the types of questionnaires that are produced. While the terminology and procedures for questionnaire development and implementation are different, each refers to the same notion ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Evi Scholz - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Jessica Fortin - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany']
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Cognitive interviewing methods are based on the four-stage model of question response, which outlines the cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions. These were first suggested by Tourangeau (1984) and are question comprehension, information retrieval, judgement and estimation, and response**. Cognitive interviewing methods ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Michelle Gray - National Centre for Social Research - NatCen, United Kingdom', u"Joanna D'Ardenne - National Centre for Social Research - NatCen, United Kingdom", u'Margaret Blake - National Centre for Social Research - NatCen, United Kingdom']
Topic: Survey Data Quality
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A major concern of social scientists is to evaluate the quality of survey data after the data has been collected. Many aspects of the survey process are designed to assure the quality of the data e.g. questionnaire design, translation checks, interviewer training, fieldwork ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Sabrina Zuber - SHARE, MEA, University of Mannheim, Germany', u'Stephanie Stuck - SHARE, MEA, University of Mannheim, Germany']
Topic: Survey Research Metadata
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This session invites presentations dealing with structured metadata in a standardized form for survey research: models, systems and tools (possibly metadata driven) for i.e. instrument design, data entry, data processing, maintaining data documentation, and capturing and storing the metadata within a repository for ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Joachim Wackerow - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany']
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This session invites presentations dealing with structured metadata in a standardized form for survey research: models, systems and tools (possibly metadata driven) for i.e. instrument design, data entry, data processing, maintaining data documentation, and capturing and storing the metadata within a repository for ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Joachim Wackerow - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany']
Topic: Other topics
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Non-experimental field research suffers from several limitations, which can render parameters estimates that are biased. This bias is usually referred to as endogeneity, and stems from a number of causes. This problem of "endogeneity" means that the regressors have not been manipulated experimentally ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Samuel Bendahan - University of Lausanne, Switzerland', u'Marius Brulhart - University of Lausanne, Switzerland', u'Lorenz Goette - University of Lausanne, Switzerland', u'Rafael Lalive - University of Lausanne, Switzerland', u'Philippe Jacquart - University of Lausanne, Switzerland']
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During the last decade the debate about the importance of biology – and especially genetic factors – for the social sciences has gained a lot of attention (see Freeze et al. 2003, Udry 1995, as well as special issues of leading journals like ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Barbara Schaan - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging - Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Germany', u'Mary Beth Ofstedal - University of Michigan, United States', u'Heidi Guyer - University of Michigan, United States']
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During the last decade the debate about the importance of biology – and especially genetic factors – for the social sciences has gained a lot of attention (see Freeze et al. 2003, Udry 1995, as well as special issues of leading journals like ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Heidi Guyer - University of Michigan, United States', u'Mary Beth Ofstedal - University of Michigan, United States', u'Barbara Schaan - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging - Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Germany']
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Can data from "social media" sites and platforms (such as Facebook and Twitter, for example) be reliably collected and analyzed? What potential benefits can social media provide to the conduct of survey research? What are the pitfalls of such an approach? Can social ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Craig A. Hill - RTI International, United States']
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Surveys are traditionally regarded as a non-experimental and descriptive research method. Hence survey data is often considered inappropriate for causal analysis. Nonetheless, experimental design elements can be employed in survey research with great benefit. Survey methodologists are quite familiar with experimental techniques because ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Heiko Rauhut - ETH Z\xfcrich, Switzerland', u'Ben Jann - University of Bern, Switzerland', u'Thomas Hinz - University of Konstanz, Germany', u'Prof. Dr. Stefanie Eifler - University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany']
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Surveys are traditionally regarded as a non-experimental and descriptive research method. Hence survey data is often considered inappropriate for causal analysis. Nonetheless, experimental design elements can be employed in survey research with great benefit. Survey methodologists are quite familiar with experimental techniques because ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Prof. Dr. Stefanie Eifler - University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany', u'Thomas Hinz - University of Konstanz, Germany', u'Ben Jann - University of Bern, Switzerland', u'Heiko Rauhut - ETH Z\xfcrich, Switzerland']
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Researchers were invited to submit papers dealing with falsifications of survey data as intentional departure from guidelines and instructions by the interviewers. These falsifications my consist on fabrications of interviews, falsifying of the survey process data, deliberately miscoding the answers to a question ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Natalja Menold - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Peter Winker - Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Center for international Development and Environmental Research (Z, Germany', u'Gesine G\xfcllner - University of Bonn, Germany', u'Nina Storfinger - Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany']
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Description: Quantitative survey research requires micro data. There exists a fairly general acceptance that sampling should be probability based. The available sampling frame may be inadequate and nonresponse may be high and selective. These nuisances are becoming more common for many reasons. An ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Seppo Laaksonen - University of Helsinki, Finland', u'Siegfried Gabler - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany']
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Description: Quantitative survey research requires micro data. There exists a fairly general acceptance that sampling should be probability based. The available sampling frame may be inadequate and nonresponse may be high and selective. These nuisances are becoming more common for many reasons. An ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Siegfried Gabler - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Seppo Laaksonen - University of Helsinki, Finland']
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Description: Quantitative survey research requires micro data. There exists a fairly general acceptance that sampling should be probability based. The available sampling frame may be inadequate and nonresponse may be high and selective. These nuisances are becoming more common for many reasons. An ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Siegfried Gabler - GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany', u'Seppo Laaksonen - University of Helsinki, Finland']
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All topics within establishment statistics (not only establishment surveys but also production of establishment statistics on the basis of admin data, combinations of admin data with surveys, etc).Especially such that cross-connect different processes in the Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM): - integrated ... more >
Coordinated by: []
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Experiments are generally regarded as the royal road to causal inference. Yet, social science research often cannot make use of research designs based on randomized laboratory experiments. This is, in part, due to the very nature of social inquiry, which generally is concerned ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Henning Best - University of Mannheim, Germany', u'Gerrit Bauer - University of Munich (LMU), Germany']
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Open-ended questions (OEQs) in large-n surveys have a long history. After a fierce debate in the immediate postwar period about their relative advantage over closed format questions, the deployment of OEQs in social and political surveys declined (Smith 1987; Converse 1984). However, with ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Nick Allum - University of Essex, United Kingdom', u'Graham Hughes - University of Surrey, United Kingdom']
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Open-ended questions (OEQs) in large-n surveys have a long history. After a fierce debate in the immediate postwar period about their relative advantage over closed format questions, the deployment of OEQs in social and political surveys declined (Smith 1987; Converse 1984). However, with ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Nick Allum - University of Essex, United Kingdom', u'Graham Hughes - University of Surrey, United Kingdom']
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Open-ended questions (OEQs) in large-n surveys have a long history. After a fierce debate in the immediate postwar period about their relative advantage over closed format questions, the deployment of OEQs in social and political surveys declined (Smith 1987; Converse 1984). However, with ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Nick Allum - University of Essex, United Kingdom', u'Graham Hughes - University of Surrey, United Kingdom']
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Terms such as 'participation' and 'consultation' have increasingly been put on the agenda of social research, in particular in social policy related research. Informed by international law, such as the UN Convention for the Right of the Child (UNCRC), but also national legislations ... more >
Coordinated by: [u"Dirk Schubotz - ARK, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom"]
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Surveys play a potentially important role in the policy making process of any democratic society. There has been a considerable discussion on whether they should influence policies and on whether they actually do, but we have quite limited knowledge about the processes through ... more >
Coordinated by: [u'Joan Font - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\xedficas (CSIC), Spain']
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