ESRA 2021 Conference Programme at a glance

ESRA 2021 Program at a glance

Thursday 1 July

13:00 - 16:00

Short Courses:

Indirect Questioning Techniques for Sensitive Topics (Alessandra Gaia)

Friday 2 July

12:00 - 13:00	Opening and Keynote 1: How to do Surveys during a Pandemic by Jon Burton Presentation Download
13:15 - 14:45	Sessions Show/hide Sampling Rare and Hard-to-Reach Populations via Social Media - Insights, Challenges and Applications Session Organisers: Mrs Zaza Zindel (Bielefeld University) Mr Simon Kühne (Bielefeld University) Covid-19 at work and private life: Methodological challenges and lessons learned from five German survey studies Session Organisers: Dr Nils Backhaus (Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA)) Mrs Ines Entgelmeier (Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA)) Dr Malte Schierholz (Institute for Employment Research (IAB)) NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN ADAPTIVE SURVEY DESIGN Session Organiser: Professor Barry Schouten (Statistics Netherlands and Utrecht University) Methodological challenges in health surveys Session Organisers: Dr Marieke Haan (University of Groningen) Dr Yfke Ongena (University of Groningen) Online and smartphone survey innovation Session Organiser: Dr Carina Cornesse (University of Mannheim)
15:00 - 16:30	Sessions Show/hide Applying a Total Survey Error approach to business surveys Session Organiser: Dr Gijs van Houten (Eurofound) New Communication Channels in Web-based Surveys Session Organisers: Dr Jan Karem Höhne (University of Duisburg-Essen) Mr Kostantin Gavras (University of Mannheim) Professor Melanie Revilla (RECSM-Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Recent Challenges for Cross Cultural Research: Reflections on the International Social Survey Programme Session Organisers: Dr Rene Bautista (NORC at the University of Chicago) Mr Ricardo Gonzalez (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez) Societal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia Compared to Other European Countries Session Organisers: Dr Natalia Soboleva (Laboratory for Comparative Social Research Higher School of Economics) Dr Anna Shirokanova (Laboratory for Comparative Social Research Higher School of Economics) Dr Margarita Zavadskaya (Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki, Laboratory for Comparative Social Research Higher School of Economics) Response scales and directions Session Organiser: Ms Almuth Lietz (German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) )
16:45 - 18:00	Sessions Show/hide Papers from the MDA special issue on open-ended questions Session Organisers: Professor Matthias Schonlau (University of Waterloo) Dr Dorothée Behr (GESIS) Professor Katharina Meitinger (University of Utrecht) Dr Neuert Cornelia (GESIS) New tools for measuring and coding socio-demographic variables using database lookups Session Organiser: Dr Verena Ortmanns (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Video interviewing for social surveys: before, during and beyond the pandemic (session 1) Session Organisers: Mr Tim Hanson (European Social Survey ERIC (City, University of London)) Professor Frederick G. Conrad (University of Michigan, USA) Data quality in probability-based and nonprobability online panels Session Organisers: Dr Carina Cornesse (University of Mannheim) Dr Olga Maslovskaya (University of Southampton) Sensitive Questions in Surveys: Theory and Methods Session Organisers: Dr Felix Wolter (University of Konstanz, Germany) Professor Jochen Mayerl (Chemnitz University of Technology) Professor Mark Trappmann (IAB, Institute for Employment Research)
18:15 - 19:00	Podcast Surveys during the Pandemic: Tom Emery, Tim Hanson, and Daphne Ahrendt Download Podcast

Thursday 8 July

13:00 - 16:00

Short Courses:

First Steps on Using R as a Geographic Information System (Stefan Jünger)

Addressing comparability of measures before and after data collection (Katharina Meitinger, Cornelia Neuert, Dorothée Behr)

Friday 9 July

12:00 - 13:00	General assembly and best paper award
13:15 - 14:45	Sessions Show/hide Investigating the effects of machine translation and post-editing in the TRAPD: an experimental approach Session Organisers: Dr Diana Zavala-Rojas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ESS ERIC) Dr Dorothée Behr (GESIS) Smart phones Session Organisers: Mr Goran Peter Lugtig Item design and item importance Session Organiser: Dr Anne Elevelt (CBS) Bias: Social desireability-, underreport- and response -bias Session Organiser: Tugba Adali Fieldwork in times of COVID-19 Session Organisers: Dr Ulrich Krieger (SFB 884 Universität Mannheim) Dr Carina Cornesse (SFB 884 Universität Mannheim)
15:00 - 16:30	Sessions Show/hide NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN ADAPTIVE SURVEY DESIGN (PART II) Session Organiser: Professor Barry Schouten (Statistics Netherlands and Utrecht University) Moving beyond the binary - Exploring the potentials, challenges and consequences of measuring sex and gender alternatively in surveys - I Session Organisers: Professor Stephanie Steinmetz (University of Lausanne) Dr Mirjam Fischer (University of Cologne) Dr Léïla Eisner (University of Zurich) Dr Verena Ortmanns (GESIS) Novel methods: Using machine-learning to aid survey administration Session Organiser: Mr Peter Lugtig (Utrecht University) Methods for international surveys Session Organiser: Dr Farsan Ghassim (University of Oxford) (Online) panels in times of COVID-19 Session Organisers: Anne Conolly (NatCen Social Research) Gerry Nicolaas Peter Cornick
16:45 - 18:00	Sessions Show/hide Fielding Cross-Cultural General Population Surveys on the Web? Interactions of Methodological and Substantial Issues in EVS 2017 Session Organisers: Dr Michael Ochsner (FORS) Professor Ferruccio Biolcati (University of Milan) Growing Up in Digital Europe / EuroCohort: developing a comparative longitudinal survey of child well-being in Europe Session Organiser: Professor Gary Pollock (Manchester Metropolitan University) Video interviewing for social surveys: before, during and beyond the pandemic (session 2) Session Organisers: Mr Tim Hanson (European Social Survey ERIC (City, University of London)) Professor Frederick G. Conrad (University of Michigan, USA) Representation side of TSE Session Organisers: Dr Sabrina Mayer (German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) & University of Duisburg-Essen) Dr Mariel McKone Leonard (German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) ) Decreasing measurement error for web-surveys Session Organisers: Dr Verena Ortmanns (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Dr Ranjit Singh (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Ms Patricia Hadler (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Dr Cornelia Neuert (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
18:15 - 19:00	Podcast Data Linkage and Sharing: Emanuela Sala, Florian Keusch, and Annette Jäckle This podcast is about asking respondents to do more than answer survey questions. We will discuss what we have learnt in recent years about asking respondents for consent to data linkage, asking for other types of data such as images, and asking respondents to use mobile apps and sensors to collect data. Download Podcast

Thursday 15 July

13:00 - 16:00

Short Courses:

Designing an Online Survey (Bugra Güngör)

Friday 16 July

12:00 - 13:00	Keynote 2: New Opportunities to Enhance Survey Data by Melanie Revilla and young scholar/outstanding service award Presentation Download
13:15 - 14:45	Sessions Show/hide Assessing and improving measurement instrument comparability when combining data from different surveys Session Organiser: Dr Ranjit K. Singh (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Advances in modelling Session Organiser: Dr Cecil Meeusen (University of Leuven) Asking sensitive questions Session Organiser: Dr Mirjam Fischer (University of Cologne) Survey Participation and Breakoffs Session Organiser: Mr Julian B. Axenfeld (University of Mannheim) Public opinion in times of COVID-19 Session Organiser: Dr Kerstin Hoenig (German Institute for Adult Education Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE))
15:00 - 16:30	Sessions Show/hide Investigations upon various (social) political inquiries Session Organiser: Dr Brita Dorer (gesis) Surveys, Social justice, Migration and Face-to-face Session Organisers: Jorg Blasius Susanne Vogl Measurement error in large scale suveys and panels Session Organiser: Dr Shelley Feuer (census) Non-response in longitudinal studies Session Organisers: Professor Peter Lynn (University of Essex) Professor Annamaria Bianchi (University of Bergamo) Dr Alessandra Gaia (University of Milano-Bicocca) Response and data quality in times of COVID-19 Session Organiser: Dr Jonathan Burton (ISER, University of Essex)
16:45 - 18:00	Sessions Show/hide Split Questionnaire Design in Social Research: Evaluation and Application Session Organiser: Mr Julian B. Axenfeld (University of Mannheim) An integrated tool suite for Round 10 of the European Social Survey (ESS) Session Organisers: Dr Brita Dorer (GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Mr Tim Hanson (European Social Survey; City, University of London) Moving beyond the binary - Exploring the potentials, challenges and consequences of measuring sex and gender alternatively in surveys - II Session Organisers: Professor Stephanie Steinmetz (University of Lausanne) Dr Mirjam Fischer (University of Cologne) Dr Léïla Eisner (University of Zurich) Dr Verena Ortmanns (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Tracking, Tracing, Training: Data Collection and Data Quality in Virtual Environments Session Organiser: Dr Sebastian Wenz (GESIS -- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Longitudinal studies in times of COVID-19 Session Organiser: Dr Alessandra Gaia (University of Milano-Bicocca)
18:15 - 19:00	Podcast Polling: Patrick Sturgis, Courtney Kennedy, and Peter Lugtig Download Podcast

Thursday 22 July

13:00 - 16:00

Short Courses:

Introduction to Survey Data Cleaning Using Tidyverse in R (Johannes Breuer and Stefan Jünger)

Introduction to Applied Small Area Estimation (Angelo Moretti)

Friday 23 July

13:15 - 14:45	Sessions Show/hide Improving measurement and sampling by additional data sources Session Organiser: Dr Felix Bader (TU Kaiserslautern) Various approaches to reducing measurment error Session Organiser: Dr Bella Struminskaya (Utrecht University) Advances in dealing with non-response Session Organiser: Dirk Schubotz Various innovations and insights in times of COVID-19 Session Organiser: Mr Boris Sokolov (National Research University Higher School of Economics) Results of the Joint AAPOR/WAPOR Task Force on Quality in Comparative Surveys Session Organisers: Ms Julie de Jong (University of Michigan) Professor Timothy Johnson (University of Illinois, Chicago) Dr Michael Robbins (Princeton University) Professor Elizabeth Zechmeister (Vanderbilt University, LAPOP) Ms Mandy Sha (Cross-Cultural and Multilingual Research Affinity Group) Dr Zeina Mneimneh (University of Michigan)
15:00 - 16:30	Sessions Show/hide Particpant consent to data linkage Session Organiser: Dr Ting Yan (Westat) Collecting and linking non-survey data Session Organiser: Dr Hayk Gyuzalyan (Highgate Consultancy) Survey design and nonresponse Session Organiser: Dr Christoph Zangger (University of Zurich) Data management and processing Session Organiser: Dr Katharina Meitinger (Utrecht University)
16:45 - 17:30	Podcast Surveys: Past, Present, Future: Annette Scherpenzeel, Caroline Roberts, and Eldad Davidov Download Podcast

ESRA 2021 Program at a glance

Thursday 1 July

Short Courses:

Friday 2 July

Opening and Keynote 1: How to do Surveys during a Pandemic by Jon Burton Presentation Download

Podcast Surveys during the Pandemic: Tom Emery, Tim Hanson, and Daphne Ahrendt Download Podcast

Thursday 8 July

Short Courses:

Friday 9 July

General assembly and best paper award

Thursday 15 July

Short Courses:

Friday 16 July

Keynote 2: New Opportunities to Enhance Survey Data by Melanie Revilla and young scholar/outstanding service award Presentation Download

Podcast Polling: Patrick Sturgis, Courtney Kennedy, and Peter Lugtig Download Podcast

Thursday 22 July

Short Courses:

Friday 23 July

Podcast Surveys: Past, Present, Future: Annette Scherpenzeel, Caroline Roberts, and Eldad Davidov Download Podcast

Opening and Keynote 1: How to do Surveys during a Pandemic by Jon Burton

Presentation Download

Podcast Surveys during the Pandemic: Tom Emery, Tim Hanson, and Daphne Ahrendt

Download Podcast

Keynote 2: New Opportunities to Enhance Survey Data by Melanie Revilla and young scholar/outstanding service award

Presentation Download

Podcast Polling: Patrick Sturgis, Courtney Kennedy, and Peter Lugtig

Download Podcast

Podcast Surveys: Past, Present, Future: Annette Scherpenzeel, Caroline Roberts, and Eldad Davidov

Download Podcast