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Volume 4, issue 2 (2026)

• Can we understand persons’ postponement in web surveys? Results from communication experiments in the Netherlands.
  - Janelle van den Heuvel | Danielle Groffen | Michelle Creemers | Vivian Meertens | Maaike Kompier
• Comparing panel retention among Ukrainian and other refugees in a German probability-based panel: Evidence from a decomposition analysis
  - Johannes Schütt | Elena Sommer
• Comparing the ‘Most Important Problem’ Measure of Issue Salience and Google Trends: Methodological Lessons from the Field
  - Julia Weiss | Barbara Binder
• Change of mode, change of bias? An analysis of differences in migrant survey participation following mode changes in the Austrian Social Survey (SSA) and the Austrian segment of the European Social Survey (ESS)
  - Nikita Kvir | Dimitri Prandner

Volume 4, issue 1 (2026)

• Should We Worry About Problematic Response Behaviour in Social Media Surveys? Understanding the Impact of Social Group Cues in Recruitment
  - Zaza Zindel
• From Face-to-Face to Push-to-Web: Methodological Lessons from the Transition of the “Social Survey Austria”
  - Matthias Penker | Anja Eder | Markus Hadler
• Effects of QR codes in a political science probability-based web survey
  - Oliver Lipps | Anke Tresch | Louis Durussel
• Who are the online panelists and why they cannot represent the general population
  - Stéphane Legleye | Guillaume Chauvet | Thomas Merly-Alpa | Noémie Soullier

Volume 3, issue 3 (2025): Special issue "Advancing Comparative Research: Exploring Error and Quality Indicators in Social Research"

• Editorial – Advancing Comparative Research: Toward a Methodological Framework for Valid Comparative Inference
  - Heinz Leitgöb | Stefanie Kley | Katharina Meitinger | Natalja Menold
• Measurement Invariance and Maximal Reliability: Exploring a Potential Link
  - Tenko Raykov | Natalja Menold
• The Relationship Between Measurement Error, Representation Bias, Language, and Country: A Comparative Analysis Using the European Social Survey (Rounds 5 to 7)
  - Lydia Repke | Barbara Felderer
• A myriad of options: Validity and comparability of alternative international education variables
  - Silke L. Schneider | Julian Urban
• The MAUP Effect: Spatial Scale and the Reliability of Segregation Indices
  - Hinrich Wildfang

Volume 3, issue 2 (2025)

• Challenges Conducting Cognitive Interviews in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Case Study with Older Adults in Lebanon
  - Alexandra Abi Nassif | Mayssan Kabalan | Carlos Mendes de Leon | Julie de Jong | Frederick Conrad * | | * Corresponding author | Note: A. Abi Nassif & M. Kabalan contributed equally to this work.
• Mitigating Fraud in Incentivized Online Surveys: Lessons from Facebook Recruitment in Nigeria
  - Arnim Langer | Lucas Leopold | Bart Meuleman | Line Kuppens | Abhishegh Menon
• Examining Predictors of Unsuccessful Mail Delivery for a National Address-Based Sample During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  - Raphael Nishimura | Rebecca Gatward | Brady T. West | Htay-Wah Saw

Volume 3, issue 1 (2025)

• Does matching interviewer and respondent gender improve data quality and reduce social desirability bias? Evidence from a mobile phone survey in India
  - Payal Hathi | Diane Coffey | Amit Thorat | Amanda Nagle
• Who chooses a QR code over a URL to access a web screener in a national probability survey of older adults, and the impact on data quality
  - Andrew L. Hupp | Heather M. Schroeder | Brady T. West | Eva Leissou | David R. Weir
• Effects of mode and incentives on response rate, sample composition, and costs – experience from a self-administered mixed-mode survey of movers
  - Manuela Schmidt | Alice Barth | Jörg Blasius
• Is it Helpful to Include QR Codes on Mail Contact Materials for Self-Administered Web Surveys?
  - Taylor Lewis | Nicole Lee | Dain Palmer | Hannah Matzke | Nik Prachand

Volume 2, issue 2 (2024)

• The Effect of Operationalization on the Correlation between Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Status: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  - Luise Richter | Natalja Menold
• Using surveys to assess students’ political knowledge: Evidence of a gender gap or disparate response styles?
  - Christa E. Winkler
• The Effect of Quick Response (QR) Codes on Response Rates and Respondent Composition: Results from a Statewide Experiment
  - Kyle Endres | Erin O. Heiden | Ki Park
• Time and sample quality in a Facebook ad-generated survey with Polish migrants in the UK
  - Aneta Piekut |

Volume 2, issue 1 (2024)

• Do Question Topic and Placement Shape Survey Breakoff Rates?
  - Luke Plutowski | Elizabeth J. Zechmeister
• Asking Volunteers: Pitfalls and Solutions for Surveying Voluntary Organisations in Germany
  - Christoph Thewes
• Ten Hypotheses Generated for Increasing Survey Response Propensity Among Immigrants and Inhabitants of Socially Disadvantaged Areas
  - Nora Theorin | Sebastian Lundmark
• Designing Effective Mobile Phone Surveys: Insights from Mozambique on Optimizing Call Attempts and Evaluating Response, Refusal, and Contact Rates among Refugees and Asylum Seekers
  - Ilgi Bozdag | Hyunju Park
• A Multimode Strategy to Contact Participants and Collect Responses in a Supplement to a Longitudinal Household Survey
  - Angie Kistler | Sandra Decker | Darby Steiger | Jessica Novik

Volume 1, issue 3 (2023): Special issue on Food Acquisition Research and Methods

• Editorial: Recent Advances in Survey Methods for Collecting Food Data
  - Elina T. Page | Christopher Antoun | Jeffrey Gonzalez | Linda Kantor | Florian Keusch | Lauren Miller | Alexander Wenz
• Usability of Augmented-Reality Portion Estimators During 24-hour Dietary Recall Interviews
  - Laura DiGrande | Shawn Karns | Elizabeth Kinyara | Sue Pedrazzani
• Secondary Activities: Their Proximity to Primary Activities and Their Importance for Understanding Reports of Preparing and Consuming Meals
  - Robert G. Rinderknecht | Long Doan | Liana C. Sayer
• Review of Food Diaries Used to Collect Food Acquisition Data
  - Ting Yan | Janice Machado
• Exploring Optical Character Recognition (OCR) as a Method of Capturing Data from Food-Purchase Receipts
  - Adam Kaderabek

Volume 1, issue 2 (2023)

• Willingness to Consent to Data Linkage in Austria – Results of a Pilot Study on Hypothetical Willingness for Different Domains
  - Johann Bacher
• Targeting Incentives in Mature Probability-based Online Panels
  - Oliver Lipps | Max Felder | Lukas Lauener | Anna Meisser | Nicolas Pekari | Line Rennwald | Anke Tresch
• Challenges in sampling students with and without special educational needs in inclusive settings for an educational longitudinal study
  - Monja Schmitt | Cornelia Gresch | Amelie Labsch
• Predicting panel attrition using multiple operationalisations of response time
  - Isabella Minderop
• Flying blind: Survey research among methadone and buprenorphine providers in Arizona
  - Brady Benjamin | Meyerson Beth E. | Bentele Keith G. | *Corresponding author

Volume 1, issue 1 (2023)

• Questionnaire design in the FReDA panel recruitment: Challenges in transitioning from a face-to-face to a self-administered mixed-mode design
  - Lisa Schmid | Tanja Kunz | Elias Naumann
• Design of multiple open-ended probes in cognitive online pretests using web probing
  - Cornelia Neuert | Timo Lenzner
• Does the type of return postage affect response rates in follow-up mailings? Experimental findings from a citizen satisfaction survey
  - Russell E. Ward
• Presentation Format Differences in Factorial Surveys: Written Vignettes Versus Photo Vignettes
  - Stefanie Eifler | Knut Petzold | Miryam Verbeek-Teres
• Satisficing Behaviour in Web Surveys. Results from a Comparison of Web and Paper Mode across Four National Survey Experiments
  - Sanne Lund Clement | Majbritt Kappelgaard Severin-Nielsen | Ditte Shamshiri-Petersen
• The Randomized Overclaiming Method (ROME): A paradigm for assessing the validity of social desirability reduction techniques using objective measures
  - Patrick Schnapp
• The most successful interviewers in income questions: A SHARE study
  - Cláudia Cunha | Alice Delerue Matos | Gina Voss

2022

• 22/12/22An overview of the scales’ characteristics for 10 well-established face-to-face social science surveys
• 20/12/22Optimizing Advance Letters: Findings From a Cognitive Pretest
• 12/12/22Cost Efficiency of Incentives in Mature Probability-based Online Panels
• 08/12/22Are you listening? Examining the level of multitasking and distractions and their impact on data quality in a telephone survey
• 06/12/22Binary response format or 11-point scale? Measuring justice evaluations of earnings in the SOEP
• 28/11/22An Experiment Comparing Concurrent and Sequential Choice+ Mixed-Mode Data Collection Protocols in a Self-Administered Health Survey
• 22/09/22Family Forms Survey: Identifying Donor-Conceived Offspring, Donors, and Recipients in a National Panel
• 29/03/22The effect of advance letters on survey participation: The case of Ireland and the European Social Survey
• 25/01/22Measurement Challenges in Designing and Conducting Surveys on Urban Population: Experience from Bangladesh Urban Health Surveys

2021

• 12/10/21Revisiting the ESS R8 sample a year after – Lessons from a re-contact survey to test patterns of unit non-response in Hungary
• 01/10/21Respondent Understanding of Data Linkage Consent
• 30/08/21How does switching a Probability-Based Online Panel to a Smartphone-Optimized Design Affect Response Rates and Smartphone Use?
• 14/06/21Using Record Linkage to improve matching rates of subject-generated ID-codes – A practical example from a panel study in schools
• 07/06/21The Interviewer Performance Profile (IPP): A Paradata-Driven Tool for Monitoring and Managing Interviewer Performance
• 28/05/21Integrating online data collection in a household panel study: effects on second-wave participation
• 18/05/21Sequentially mixing modes in an election survey
• 17/05/21Shaking hands in a busy waiting room. The effects of the surveyor’s introduction and people present in the waiting room on the response rate
• 12/02/21Do shorter stated survey length and inclusion of a QR code in an invitation letter lead to better response rates?

2020

• 10/12/20Multi-mode question pretesting: Using traditional cognitive interviews and online testing as complementary methods
• 10/12/20Using Geofences to Collect Survey Data: Lessons Learned From the IAB-SMART Study
• 10/12/20Collecting and using always-on location data in surveys
• 10/12/20Page switching in mixed-device web surveys: prevalence and data quality
• 10/12/20Device effects on survey response quality. A comparison of smartphone, tablet and PC responses on a cross sectional probability sample
• 10/12/20Text Message (SMS) Pre-notifications, Invitations and Reminders for Web Surveys
• 10/12/20Comparison of Quarterly and Yearly Calibration Data for Propensity Score Adjusted Web Survey Estimates
• 10/12/20Using Facebook and Instagram to Recruit Web Survey Participants: A Step-by-Step Guide and Application
• 10/12/20Editorial: From web surveys to mobile web to apps, sensors, and digital traces
• 10/12/20Special issue: Advancements in Online and Mobile Survey Methods
• 24/11/20Letting the cat out of the bag: The impact of respondent multitasking on disclosure of socially undesirable information and answers to knowledge questions
• 15/10/20Just a Difficult Election to Poll? How Context Affects Polling Accuracy
• 31/08/20Do supplemental list frames for subpopulations increase subpopulation sampling efficiency? Evidence from the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey
• 23/07/20Assessing Nonresponse Bias by Permitting Individuals to Opt Out of a Survey
• 07/07/20The Impact of Nurse Continuity on Biosocial Survey Participation
• 18/05/20Special issue: Fieldwork Monitoring Strategies for Interviewer-Administered Surveys
• 18/05/20Fieldwork Monitoring Strategies for Interviewer-Administered Surveys
• 18/05/20Using Geospatial Data to Monitor and Optimize Face-to-Face Fieldwork
• 18/05/20Developments in fieldwork procedures and monitoring in longitudinal surveys: case prioritisation and electronic contact sheets on the UK Millennium Cohort Study
• 18/05/20Using field monitoring strategies to improve panel sample representativeness: Application during data collection in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
• 18/05/20Converting Nonrespondents in PIAAC Germany 2012 Using Responsive Measures
• 18/05/20The utility of auxiliary data for survey response modeling: Evidence from the German Internet Panel
• 18/05/20Improving Central Monitoring of Fieldwork in Cross-national Surveys: The Case of the Fieldwork Management System in the European Social Survey
• 18/05/20Fieldwork Monitoring in Practice: Insights from 17 Large-scale Social Science Surveys in Germany
• 05/03/20Method and transparency of online physician surveys: an overview

2019

• 22/10/19Effective Strategies for Recording Interviewer Observations: Evidence from the PASS Study in Germany
• 15/08/19Analysing Poor Reading Skills: A Comparison Between PIAAC Literacy Levels and Reading components
• 17/05/19Comparison response patterns on landline and cell phone in a call back survey: effects of demographic characteristics and lag days
• 02/04/19Undercoverage of the elderly institutionalized population: The risk of biased estimates and the potentials of weighting
• 02/04/19How to reach ‘hard-to-reach’ older people for research: The TIBaR model of recruitment
• 02/04/19Interviewing elderly in nursing homes – Respondent and survey characteristics as predictors of item nonresponse
• 02/04/19Effects of a sequential mixed-mode design on participation, contact and sample composition – Results of the pilot study “IMOA – Improving Health Monitoring in Old Age”
• 02/04/19Including nursing home residents in a general population health survey in Germany
• 02/04/19Sampling in Times of High Immigration: The Survey Process of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees
• 02/04/19How to Implement Respondent-Driven Sampling in Practice: Insights from Surveying 24-Hour Migrant Home Care Workers
• 02/04/19Sampling Refugees for an Educational Longitudinal Survey
• 02/04/19Building a Sampling Frame for Migrant Populations via an Onomastic Approach – Lesson learned from the Austrian Immigrant Survey 2016
• 02/04/19Integration of Migrant Populations into Health Monitoring in Germany: Results from a Feasibility Study
• 02/04/19From peer to peer: Reaching migrants from sub-Saharan Africa with research on sexual health utilizing community-based participatory health research
• 02/04/19Needles in Haystacks and Diamonds in the Rough: Using Probability and Nonprobability Methods to Survey Low-incidence Populations
• 02/04/19Measuring sexual behaviours and attitudes in hard-to-reach groups. A comparison of a non-probability web survey with a national probability sample survey
• 02/04/19Possible Uses of Nonprobability Sampling for the Social Sciences
• 02/04/19Inferences based on Probability Sampling or Nonprobability Sampling – Are They Nothing but a Question of Models?
• 02/04/19Probability and Nonprobability Sampling: Representative Surveys of hard-to-reach and hard-to-ask populations. Current surveys between the poles of theory and practice
• 02/04/19Special issue: ‘Probability and Nonprobability Sampling: Sampling of hard-to-reach survey populations’
• 22/03/19Pouring water into wine: revisiting the advantages of the crosswise model for asking sensitive questions
• 22/02/19Trust and Credibility in the U.S. Federal Statistical System

2018

• 20/12/18International Nonresponse Trends across Countries and Years: An analysis of 36 years of Labour Force Survey data
• 16/11/18Validating occupational coding indexes for use in multi-country surveys
• 15/11/18Investigating Respondent Multitasking and Distraction Using Self-reports and Interviewers’ Observations in a Dual-frame Telephone Survey
• 27/07/18Evaluation of Gaining Cooperation Methods for IVR Surveys in Low- and Middle-income Countries
• 18/05/18Collecting Multiple Data Linkage Consents in a Mixed-mode Survey: Evidence from a large-scale longitudinal study in the UK
• 20/04/18Response 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
• 23/01/18The 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

• 07/12/17Why were there three? – Determinants of the presence of an intimate partner during face-to-face interviews
• 01/12/17A Review of Reporting Standards in Academic Journals – A Research Note
• 16/11/17Does name order still matter for candidates in a presidential primary poll in the US? Lack of response order effect in a web survey experiment
• 10/10/17Measuring Immigrant Populations: Subjective versus Objective Assessments
• 21/09/17Effects of call patterns on the likelihood of contact and of interview in mobile CATI surveys
• 24/08/17Comparing 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
• 16/05/17Testing the Validity of the Crosswise Model: A Study on Attitudes Towards Muslims

2016

• 06/12/16Nonsampling errors and their implication for estimates of current cancer treatment using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
• 01/11/16Question Order Experiments in the German-European Context
• 06/10/16The effect of interviewers’ motivation and attitudes on respondents‘ consent to contact secondary respondents in a multi-actor design
• 01/07/16A Case Study of Error in Survey Reports of Move Month Using the U.S. Postal Service Change of Address Records
• 08/06/16Measuring the survey climate: the Flemish case
• 17/05/16Web survey experiments on fully balanced, minimally balanced and unbalanced rating scales
• 09/05/16Comparing smartphones to tablets for face-to-face interviewing in Kenya

2015

• 18/12/15Altering the Survey-taking Climate: The Case of the 2010 U.S. Census
• 20/11/15What do web survey panel respondents answer when asked “Do you have any other comment?”
• 13/11/15Obtaining Record Linkage Consent: Results from a Wording Experiment in Germany
• 03/09/15A Free Audio-CASI Module for LimeSurvey
• 09/07/15Simultaneous Raking of Survey Weights at Multiple Levels
• 12/06/15E-Appointments in Empirical Field Research
• 11/06/15Self-identification of occupation in web surveys: requirements for search trees and look-up tables
• 16/04/15How to weight survey data with a dyadic multi-actor design?
• 20/02/15Special issue: ‘Weighting: Practical Issues and ‘How to’ Approach
• 20/02/15The Impact of Typical Survey Weighting Adjustments on the Design Effect: A Case Study
• 20/02/15Weighting Procedures for Dual Frame Telephone Surveys: A Case Study in Egypt
• 20/02/15Computing Sampling Weights in Large-Scale Assessments in Education
• 20/02/15Finding Respondents in the Forest: A Comparison of Logistic Regression and Random Forest Models for Response Propensity Weighting and Stratification
• 20/02/15Why We Should Put Some Weight on Weights.
• 20/02/15Should Recall of Previous Votes Be Used to Adjust Estimates of Voting Intention?

2014

• 12/12/14Data Collection Mode Effects On Political Knowledge
• 29/08/14Consumers’ Recording Behaviour in Payment Diaries – Empirical Evidence from Germany
• 17/07/14Costs and benefits of reaching parents for survey participation through school communication systems: testing the potential of a straightforward convenience sample
• 26/06/14Fieldwork Monitoring in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
• 06/06/14Does the Choice of Header Images influence Responses? Findings from a Web Survey on Students’ Housing Situation
• 23/05/14The impact of contact effort on mode-specific selection and measurement bias
• 30/04/14Merchant Steering of Consumer Payment Choice: Lessons Learned From Consumer Surveys
• 05/02/14Collecting saliva samples for DNA extraction from children and parents: findings from a pilot study using lay interviewers in the UK
• 13/01/14Asking Survey Respondents about Reasons for Their Behavior: A Split Ballot Experiment in Ethiopia

2013

• 22/11/13Challenges in the Treatment of Unit Nonresponse for Selected Business Surveys: A Case Study
• 07/08/13Good questions, bad questions? A Post-Survey Evaluation Strategy Based on Item Nonresponse.
• 12/07/13Developing a Master Sample Design for Household Surveys in Developing Countries: A Case Study in Bangladesh
• 08/05/13Research Note: Reducing the Threat of Sensitive Questions in Online Surveys?
• 05/04/13Reincarnation Revisited. Question format and the distribution of belief in reincarnation in survey research
• 01/03/13A Comparison of Results from a Spanish and English Mail Survey: Effects of Instruction Placement on Item Missingness
• 01/03/13Response Latency Measurement in Surveys. Detecting Strong Attitudes and Response Effects
• 31/01/13Prevalence of Cell Phone Sharing
• 31/01/13Understanding and Improving the External Survey Environment of Official Statistics
• 25/01/13Coverage Bias in European Telephone Surveys: Developments of Landline and Mobile Phone Coverage across Countries and over Time
• 23/01/13Measuring Interviewer Characteristics Pertinent to Social Surveys: A Conceptual Framework