Archives
2023
- 04/04/23: Questionnaire design in the FReDA panel recruitment: Challenges in transitioning from a face-to-face to a self-administered mixed-mode design
- 04/04/23: Design of multiple open-ended probes in cognitive online pretests using web probing
- 04/04/23: Does the type of return postage affect response rates in follow-up mailings? Experimental findings from a citizen satisfaction survey
- 04/04/23: Presentation Format Differences in Factorial Surveys: Written Vignettes Versus Photo Vignettes
- 04/04/23: Satisficing Behaviour in Web Surveys. Results from a Comparison of Web and Paper Mode across Four National Survey Experiments
- 04/04/23: The Randomized Overclaiming Method (ROME): A paradigm for assessing the validity of social desirability reduction techniques using objective measures
- 04/04/23: The most successful interviewers in income questions: A SHARE study
2022
- 22/12/22: An overview of the scales’ characteristics for 10 well-established face-to-face social science surveys
- 20/12/22: Optimizing Advance Letters: Findings From a Cognitive Pretest
- 12/12/22: Cost Efficiency of Incentives in Mature Probability-based Online Panels
- 08/12/22: Are you listening? Examining the level of multitasking and distractions and their impact on data quality in a telephone survey
- 06/12/22: Binary response format or 11-point scale? Measuring justice evaluations of earnings in the SOEP
- 28/11/22: An Experiment Comparing Concurrent and Sequential Choice+ Mixed-Mode Data Collection Protocols in a Self-Administered Health Survey
- 22/09/22: Family Forms Survey: Identifying Donor-Conceived Offspring, Donors, and Recipients in a National Panel
- 29/03/22: The effect of advance letters on survey participation: The case of Ireland and the European Social Survey
- 25/01/22: Measurement Challenges in Designing and Conducting Surveys on Urban Population: Experience from Bangladesh Urban Health Surveys
2021
- 12/10/21: Revisiting the ESS R8 sample a year after – Lessons from a re-contact survey to test patterns of unit non-response in Hungary
- 01/10/21: Respondent Understanding of Data Linkage Consent
- 30/08/21: How does switching a Probability-Based Online Panel to a Smartphone-Optimized Design Affect Response Rates and Smartphone Use?
- 14/06/21: Using Record Linkage to improve matching rates of subject-generated ID-codes – A practical example from a panel study in schools
- 07/06/21: The Interviewer Performance Profile (IPP): A Paradata-Driven Tool for Monitoring and Managing Interviewer Performance
- 28/05/21: Integrating online data collection in a household panel study: effects on second-wave participation
- 18/05/21: Sequentially mixing modes in an election survey
- 17/05/21: Shaking hands in a busy waiting room. The effects of the surveyor’s introduction and people present in the waiting room on the response rate
- 12/02/21: Do shorter stated survey length and inclusion of a QR code in an invitation letter lead to better response rates?
2020
- 10/12/20: Multi-mode question pretesting: Using traditional cognitive interviews and online testing as complementary methods
- 10/12/20: Using Geofences to Collect Survey Data: Lessons Learned From the IAB-SMART Study
- 10/12/20: Collecting and using always-on location data in surveys
- 10/12/20: Page switching in mixed-device web surveys: prevalence and data quality
- 10/12/20: Device effects on survey response quality. A comparison of smartphone, tablet and PC responses on a cross sectional probability sample
- 10/12/20: Text Message (SMS) Pre-notifications, Invitations and Reminders for Web Surveys
- 10/12/20: Comparison of Quarterly and Yearly Calibration Data for Propensity Score Adjusted Web Survey Estimates
- 10/12/20: Using Facebook and Instagram to Recruit Web Survey Participants: A Step-by-Step Guide and Application
- 10/12/20: Editorial: From web surveys to mobile web to apps, sensors, and digital traces
- 10/12/20: Special issue: Advancements in Online and Mobile Survey Methods
- 24/11/20: Letting the cat out of the bag: The impact of respondent multitasking on disclosure of socially undesirable information and answers to knowledge questions
- 15/10/20: Just a Difficult Election to Poll? How Context Affects Polling Accuracy
- 31/08/20: Do supplemental list frames for subpopulations increase subpopulation sampling efficiency? Evidence from the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey
- 23/07/20: Assessing Nonresponse Bias by Permitting Individuals to Opt Out of a Survey
- 07/07/20: The Impact of Nurse Continuity on Biosocial Survey Participation
- 18/05/20: Special issue: Fieldwork Monitoring Strategies for Interviewer-Administered Surveys
- 18/05/20: Fieldwork Monitoring Strategies for Interviewer-Administered Surveys
- 18/05/20: Using Geospatial Data to Monitor and Optimize Face-to-Face Fieldwork
- 18/05/20: Developments in fieldwork procedures and monitoring in longitudinal surveys: case prioritisation and electronic contact sheets on the UK Millennium Cohort Study
- 18/05/20: Using field monitoring strategies to improve panel sample representativeness: Application during data collection in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
- 18/05/20: Converting Nonrespondents in PIAAC Germany 2012 Using Responsive Measures
- 18/05/20: The utility of auxiliary data for survey response modeling: Evidence from the German Internet Panel
- 18/05/20: Improving Central Monitoring of Fieldwork in Cross-national Surveys: The Case of the Fieldwork Management System in the European Social Survey
- 18/05/20: Fieldwork Monitoring in Practice: Insights from 17 Large-scale Social Science Surveys in Germany
- 05/03/20: Method and transparency of online physician surveys: an overview
2019
- 22/10/19: Effective Strategies for Recording Interviewer Observations: Evidence from the PASS Study in Germany
- 15/08/19: Analysing Poor Reading Skills: A Comparison Between PIAAC Literacy Levels and Reading components
- 17/05/19: Comparison response patterns on landline and cell phone in a call back survey: effects of demographic characteristics and lag days
- 02/04/19: Undercoverage of the elderly institutionalized population: The risk of biased estimates and the potentials of weighting
- 02/04/19: How to reach ‘hard-to-reach’ older people for research: The TIBaR model of recruitment
- 02/04/19: Interviewing elderly in nursing homes – Respondent and survey characteristics as predictors of item nonresponse
- 02/04/19: Effects of a sequential mixed-mode design on participation, contact and sample composition – Results of the pilot study “IMOA – Improving Health Monitoring in Old Age”
- 02/04/19: Including nursing home residents in a general population health survey in Germany
- 02/04/19: Sampling in Times of High Immigration: The Survey Process of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees
- 02/04/19: How to Implement Respondent-Driven Sampling in Practice: Insights from Surveying 24-Hour Migrant Home Care Workers
- 02/04/19: Sampling Refugees for an Educational Longitudinal Survey
- 02/04/19: Building a Sampling Frame for Migrant Populations via an Onomastic Approach – Lesson learned from the Austrian Immigrant Survey 2016
- 02/04/19: Integration of Migrant Populations into Health Monitoring in Germany: Results from a Feasibility Study
- 02/04/19: From peer to peer: Reaching migrants from sub-Saharan Africa with research on sexual health utilizing community-based participatory health research
- 02/04/19: Needles in Haystacks and Diamonds in the Rough: Using Probability and Nonprobability Methods to Survey Low-incidence Populations
- 02/04/19: Measuring sexual behaviours and attitudes in hard-to-reach groups. A comparison of a non-probability web survey with a national probability sample survey
- 02/04/19: Possible Uses of Nonprobability Sampling for the Social Sciences
- 02/04/19: Inferences based on Probability Sampling or Nonprobability Sampling – Are They Nothing but a Question of Models?
- 02/04/19: Probability and Nonprobability Sampling: Representative Surveys of hard-to-reach and hard-to-ask populations. Current surveys between the poles of theory and practice
- 02/04/19: Special issue: ‘Probability and Nonprobability Sampling: Sampling of hard-to-reach survey populations’
- 22/03/19: Pouring water into wine: revisiting the advantages of the crosswise model for asking sensitive questions
- 22/02/19: Trust and Credibility in the U.S. Federal Statistical System
2018
- 20/12/18: International Nonresponse Trends across Countries and Years: An analysis of 36 years of Labour Force Survey data
- 16/11/18: Validating occupational coding indexes for use in multi-country surveys
- 15/11/18: Investigating Respondent Multitasking and Distraction Using Self-reports and Interviewers’ Observations in a Dual-frame Telephone Survey
- 27/07/18: Evaluation of Gaining Cooperation Methods for IVR Surveys in Low- and Middle-income Countries
- 18/05/18: Collecting Multiple Data Linkage Consents in a Mixed-mode Survey: Evidence from a large-scale longitudinal study in the UK
- 20/04/18: Response Rates in the European Social Survey: Increasing, Decreasing, or a Matter of Fieldwork Efforts?
- 15/03/18: ‘Don’t Know’ Responses to Survey Items on Trust in Police and Criminal Courts: A Word of Caution
- 23/01/18: The Need to Account for Complex Sampling Features when Analyzing Establishment Survey Data: An Illustration using the 2013 Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS)
2017
- 07/12/17: Why were there three? – Determinants of the presence of an intimate partner during face-to-face interviews
- 01/12/17: A Review of Reporting Standards in Academic Journals – A Research Note
- 16/11/17: Does name order still matter for candidates in a presidential primary poll in the US? Lack of response order effect in a web survey experiment
- 10/10/17: Measuring Immigrant Populations: Subjective versus Objective Assessments
- 21/09/17: Effects of call patterns on the likelihood of contact and of interview in mobile CATI surveys
- 24/08/17: Comparing Continuous and Dichotomous Scoring of Social Desirability Scales: Effects of Different Scoring Methods on the Reliability and Validity of the Winkler-Kroh-Spiess BIDR Short Scale
- 16/05/17: Testing the Validity of the Crosswise Model: A Study on Attitudes Towards Muslims
2016
- 06/12/16: Nonsampling errors and their implication for estimates of current cancer treatment using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
- 01/11/16: Question Order Experiments in the German-European Context
- 06/10/16: The effect of interviewers’ motivation and attitudes on respondents‘ consent to contact secondary respondents in a multi-actor design
- 01/07/16: A Case Study of Error in Survey Reports of Move Month Using the U.S. Postal Service Change of Address Records
- 08/06/16: Measuring the survey climate: the Flemish case
- 17/05/16: Web survey experiments on fully balanced, minimally balanced and unbalanced rating scales
- 09/05/16: Comparing smartphones to tablets for face-to-face interviewing in Kenya
2015
- 18/12/15: Altering the Survey-taking Climate: The Case of the 2010 U.S. Census
- 20/11/15: What do web survey panel respondents answer when asked “Do you have any other comment?”
- 13/11/15: Obtaining Record Linkage Consent: Results from a Wording Experiment in Germany
- 03/09/15: A Free Audio-CASI Module for LimeSurvey
- 09/07/15: Simultaneous Raking of Survey Weights at Multiple Levels
- 12/06/15: E-Appointments in Empirical Field Research
- 11/06/15: Self-identification of occupation in web surveys: requirements for search trees and look-up tables
- 16/04/15: How to weight survey data with a dyadic multi-actor design?
- 20/02/15: Special issue: ‘Weighting: Practical Issues and ‘How to’ Approach
- 20/02/15: The Impact of Typical Survey Weighting Adjustments on the Design Effect: A Case Study
- 20/02/15: Weighting Procedures for Dual Frame Telephone Surveys: A Case Study in Egypt
- 20/02/15: Computing Sampling Weights in Large-Scale Assessments in Education
- 20/02/15: Finding Respondents in the Forest: A Comparison of Logistic Regression and Random Forest Models for Response Propensity Weighting and Stratification
- 20/02/15: Why We Should Put Some Weight on Weights.
- 20/02/15: Should Recall of Previous Votes Be Used to Adjust Estimates of Voting Intention?
2014
- 12/12/14: Data Collection Mode Effects On Political Knowledge
- 29/08/14: Consumers’ Recording Behaviour in Payment Diaries – Empirical Evidence from Germany
- 17/07/14: Costs and benefits of reaching parents for survey participation through school communication systems: testing the potential of a straightforward convenience sample
- 26/06/14: Fieldwork Monitoring in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
- 06/06/14: Does the Choice of Header Images influence Responses? Findings from a Web Survey on Students’ Housing Situation
- 23/05/14: The impact of contact effort on mode-specific selection and measurement bias
- 30/04/14: Merchant Steering of Consumer Payment Choice: Lessons Learned From Consumer Surveys
- 05/02/14: Collecting saliva samples for DNA extraction from children and parents: findings from a pilot study using lay interviewers in the UK
- 13/01/14: Asking Survey Respondents about Reasons for Their Behavior: A Split Ballot Experiment in Ethiopia
2013
- 22/11/13: Challenges in the Treatment of Unit Nonresponse for Selected Business Surveys: A Case Study
- 07/08/13: Good questions, bad questions? A Post-Survey Evaluation Strategy Based on Item Nonresponse.
- 12/07/13: Developing a Master Sample Design for Household Surveys in Developing Countries: A Case Study in Bangladesh
- 08/05/13: Research Note: Reducing the Threat of Sensitive Questions in Online Surveys?
- 05/04/13: Reincarnation Revisited. Question format and the distribution of belief in reincarnation in survey research
- 01/03/13: A Comparison of Results from a Spanish and English Mail Survey: Effects of Instruction Placement on Item Missingness
- 01/03/13: Response Latency Measurement in Surveys. Detecting Strong Attitudes and Response Effects
- 31/01/13: Prevalence of Cell Phone Sharing
- 31/01/13: Understanding and Improving the External Survey Environment of Official Statistics
- 25/01/13: Coverage Bias in European Telephone Surveys: Developments of Landline and Mobile Phone Coverage across Countries and over Time
- 23/01/13: Measuring Interviewer Characteristics Pertinent to Social Surveys: A Conceptual Framework
