Program 2021
Friday 2 July Friday 9 July Friday 16 July Friday 23 July
Short courses on Thursdays
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We offer full live support in video sessions on the platform during the following hours:
2 July: 11:45-13:45 and 15:00-17:00
9 July: 13:00-15:00
16 july: 13:00-14:00
23 july: 13:00-14:00
For help outside these hours, please see the Scoocs manuals referenced above.
All time references are in CEST
Friday 2 July
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Opening and Keynote 1: How to do Surveys during a Pandemic by Jon Burton |
| 13:15 - 14:45 | Sampling Rare and Hard-to-Reach Populations via Social Media - Insights, Challenges and ApplicationsSession Organisers: Using Facebook for Recruiting Survey Participants: Advantages, Challenges, and Practical Considerations Using Social Networking Sites in cross-national research on a global scale – First insights from the German Emigrants Overseas Online Survey Using Facebook ads to survey Polish, Ukrainian and Argentinean migrants. Experiences from the MOBILISE project. Assessing online social media recruitment for reaching and recruiting rare survey participants. Understanding issues of representation and data quality in social media recruited survey samples |
| 13:15 - 14:45 | Covid-19 at work and private life: Methodological challenges and lessons learned from five German survey studiesSession Organisers: Covid-19 supplementary surveys in NEPS: Challenges in data collection and first results How to set up an online panel during a pandemic: The IAB High-Frequency Online Personal Panel (HOPP) How the pandemic changed the timing of work: Covid-19 in the BAuA-Working Time Survey Dynamics of the German labour market during the Covid-19 crisis Socio-Economic Panel - Linked Employer Employee (SOEP-LEE2). Adjustments in firms located in Germany to Covid-19 and effects on employer-employee relations |
| 13:15 - 14:45 | NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN ADAPTIVE SURVEY DESIGNSession Organiser: Professor Barry Schouten (Statistics Netherlands and Utrecht University) Optimizing Data Collection Interventions to Balance Cost and Quality Under a Bayesian Framework An Experimental Evaluation of a Stopping Rule Aimed at Maximizing Cost-Quality Tradeoffs Optimal stratification for adaptive survey design Including historic survey data through time series models The Anchoring Method: Estimation of Interviewer Effects in the Absence of Interpenetrated Sample Assignment |
| 13:15 - 14:45 | Methodological challenges in health surveysSession Organisers: Nothing but the truth about health: A systematic review on socially desirable responding in health surveys Measuring attitudes towards artificial intelligence in medicine. An experimental study in the LISS panel comparing agree-disagree scales, construct-specific scales, and label-points Using results from interviewer-respondent interaction to improve the design and administration of questions about chronic conditions The bigger picture: Lessons learned from the use of photo-elicitation for older adults with a lower socioeconomic status Just you wait… and fill out this survey. Methodological aspects of waiting room surveys |
| 13:15 - 14:45 | Online and smartphone survey innovationSession Organiser: Dr Carina Cornesse (University of Mannheim) Using participatory design to develop a smartphone data collection app with doctorate recipients Using discrete choice experiments in applied research: does the presentation and device type influence respondents’ responses, behaviour and experience? Obtaining validity evidence of response processes to survey questions through an integrated web probing approach Forgoing of Health Services during a Coronavirus Lockdown: Implications of New Consumption and Technology-Use Patterns |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Applying a Total Survey Error approach to business surveysSession Organiser: Dr Gijs van Houten (Eurofound) Adapting a mixed-mode design in a longitudinal business survey to the Covid-19 pandemic: Findings on mode effects and (unit) nonresponse Using a customised report as an incentive for managers to participate in an online follow-up survey: effects on sampling error and measurement error Early respondents, late respondents and non-respondents in a cross-national push to web business survey Ways of Reducing coverage and sampling error as part of the Total Survey Error Framework for Establishment Surveys in Europe: Recent Developments |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | New Communication Channels in Web-based SurveysSession Organisers: When Does it Make Sense to Ask Respondents for Images? Insights for (Mobile) Web Surveys Willingness to Provide Voice-Recordings in a General Social Survey Automated Emotion Recognition with Voice Data in Smartphone Surveys Data Quality and Respondent Experience in Prerecorded Video Survey “Interviews” Active Versus Passive Sensor Data Collection. Three Case Studies |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Recent Challenges for Cross Cultural Research: Reflections on the International Social Survey ProgrammeSession Organisers: Experiences from the German ISSP in Covid-19 times Impact of Covid-19 on surveys. Lessons learned from ISSP 2020 in Switzerland Different data collection modes, sample composition and data quality: Evidence from the ISSP in Iceland Challenges on Mixed-Mode Longitudinal Data Collection In Chile: Insights for Cross-Cultural Research in Times Of Pandemic Preparation plans and experiences in mode switching between CAPI and CAWI, in light of the COVID19 pandemic |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Societal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russia Compared to Other European CountriesSession Organisers: Do online surveys help to measure liberal attitudes in conservative contexts?: A comparison of the results of an online and face-to-face survey in Russia Subjective well-being as a result of labor market status change in the era of coronavirus pandemic Religiosity and Confidence in Healthcare System During the Pandemic The Symphony is Over? The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Russian Orthodox Church-State relations COVID-19 skeptics and political support in Russia: Evidence from the online panel survey ‘Values in Crisis’ 2020-2021 |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Response scales and directionsSession Organiser: Ms Almuth Lietz (German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) ) Data Quality of Different Response Scale Formats Designing apps for diary studies. Lessons learned from respondent feedback. Measuring Achievement Motivation: Investigating Direction Effects Across Rating Scales with Five and Seven Points in a Probability-based Online Panel Are scale direction effects associated with survey mode? Comparison of a face-to-face, a telephone and an online survey experiment Capturing the interaction between question order effects and visual layout: results from an online experiment |
| 16:45 - 18:00 | Papers from the MDA special issue on open-ended questionsSession Organisers: Open-ended versus Closed Probes: Assessing different formats of web probing How much is a box? The hidden cost of adding an open-ended probe to an online survey Interviewers’ and Respondents’ Joint Production of Response Quality in Open-ended Questions. A Multilevel Negative binomial Regression Approach Coding text answers to open-ended questions: human coders and statistical learning algorithms make similar mistakes |
| 16:45 - 18:00 | New tools for measuring and coding socio-demographic variables using database lookupsSession Organiser: Dr Verena Ortmanns (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Religious denominations database Measuring Education in Cross-National Surveys Using Coding Tools Measuring Occupations in Multi-Country Surveys The future of SurveyCodings |
| 16:45 - 18:00 | Video interviewing for social surveys: before, during and beyond the pandemic (session 1)Session Organisers: Live Video Interviews: A First Look at Data Quality and Respondents’ Subjective Experience The European Social Survey during COVID-19: Using Video Interviews and Other Innovations Feasibility of video interviewing as a data collection mode: Evidence from the ISSP in Iceland Live Video Interviewing in the ANES 2020 Time Series Study |
| 16:45 - 18:00 | Data quality in probability-based and nonprobability online panelsSession Organisers: Evaluating data quality in the UK NatCen probability-based online panel Associations in Probability-Based and Nonprobability Online Panels: Evidence on Bivariate and Multivariate Analyses Conducting Longitudinal Research Using Probability-Based and Nonprobability Online Panels: Evidence on Retention and Bias Transitioning a face-to-face survey to an online panel: findings from a parallel run |
| 16:45 - 18:00 | Sensitive Questions in Surveys: Theory and MethodsSession Organisers: A Meta-Analysis of Studies on the Performance of the Crosswise Model Collecting data on misuse of short time work in a longitudinal survey using the crosswise method False Positives and the “More-is-Better” Assumption in Sensitive Question Research: New Evidence on the Crosswise Model and the Item Count Technique Using fictitious issues to investigate satisficing behaviour in surveys |
| 18:15 - 19:00 | Podcast Surveys during the Pandemic: Tom Emery, Tim Hanson, and Daphne Ahrendt |