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Survey methodology and survey practice


Adapting survey mode in a changing survey landscape: Experiences from repeat cross-national, cross-sectional, and general social surveys

Advances in Life History Data Collection

Agility and the Survey Life-Cycle - How to win the hearts and minds of the team?

Automated Preloading and Definition of Panel Samples

Beyond the Platform: Insights for Survey Recruitment Across Social Media

Challenges and opportunities when using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)

Cheating in Indirect Questioning Sensitive Surveys

Complex measurements in online self-completion surveys

Data Collection on Educational Biographies of Students in Compulsory Education and Beyond

Data Collection Using Wearable Devices: Challenges and Opportunities

Education Bias in general population surveys

Embracing Diversity in Gender Identity in Survey Practices

Ethical, legal, and technological challenges of data collection from digital platforms

Evaluating Mixed-Mode in Panel Surveys: Where do we stand and where do we go from here?

Exploring Agent-based Interviewing in Web Surveys

Exploring non-respondents in self-completion surveys

Exploring Organizational Structures in Survey Infrastructures

Factorial Surveys – Methods and Applications

Generational Perspectives on Key NextGenerationEU Themes: Insights from Cross-National Surveys

Get in touch–stay in touch: Efficient and suitable recruitment and survey strategies

Good, fast, cheap: Pick two – Optimizing Sampling Strategies for Modern Survey Research

Harnessing technology when adapting face-to-face survey questions for the web

Innovative Uses of Multimode and Multidata in Surveys: Challenges, Success, and Error Trade-offs

Integrating Participant Voice in Study Design through PPIE

Interviewers across the Survey Life Cycle

Maintaining contact and tracking participants in longitudinal studies

Making surveys more inclusive and equitable: strategies, actions and challenges

Measurement errors in smart surveys: Accomplishments, challenges, and looking forward

Measuring complex emotions within the context of family life

Merits and limits of respondent recruitment through social media

Methodological aspects of privacy measurement in surveys

Methods for Within-household Selection in Surveys without Field Interviewers

New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences - An Interdisciplinary Program for Survey Innovation in Germany

Open Forms of Pretesting

Optimizing Grid Questions in Mixed-Mode Surveys Across Devices: Challenges and Solutions

Optimizing Probability-Based Web Panel Performance

Promises and problems of factorial surveys and choice experiments - Methodological challenges and substantive conclusions for survey research

Quality Assurance in Survey Data: Frameworks, Tools, and Quality Indicators

Really Random? Exploring Bias and Quality in Random Sampling

Recruiting Web Surveys via Postal-Mail: Best-Practice, Experiments, and Innovation

Recruitment methods for surveys without field interviewers

Respondent-Provided Auxiliary Data Instead of Survey Questions in a Web Survey

Satisficing in Self-Completion Modes: Theoretical Understanding, Assessment, Prevention and Consequences for Data Quality

Split Questionnaire Designs in Social Surveys: Challenges and Solutions

Survey research beyond the binary - Exploring the potentials, challenges and consequences of alternative measures for assigned sex, gender identity/expression and sexual orientation

The Implementation of PIAAC Cycle 2: Challenges and Lessons Learnt

The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) – Methodological innovations and substantive research in comparative perspective

The use of differential incentives in surveys

Understanding survey participation among children, teenagers and young adults: opportunities, challenges and gaps

Use of Machine Learning in Questionnaire Development and Evaluation

Using Central Management Strategies and Workflows in Large-Scale Surveys to Reduce Total Survey Error and Implement Methodological Changes

UX, user-centred, and respondent-centred design: its application and development

Variance estimation in complex sample surveys

Video interviewing for survey data collection: beyond the pandemic

Vignette Experiments in Survey Research: Exploring Discrimination Mechanisms through Controlled Scenarios

Ways Forward: Social Science Research Data Infrastructures in Europe


Innovation in surveys: new methods and sources of data


AI for Survey Construction: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions

alternative data sources and pseudo-inference in official statistics

Automatic coding with deep learning: feature extraction from unstructured survey data

Big Administrative Data for Survey Methodology in the Era of Machine Learning

Bridging Methodology and Computational Social Science

Can new and alternative data sources, formats and methods help to improve the inclusivity of survey data?

Children and Youth cohort studies: developments and innovations

Collection of Genetic Information in Panel Surveys

Current developments in improving digital accessibility of web surveys

Current Developments in Mobility Survey Methods

Developing Innovative and Model-Based Interventions to Combat Survey Satisficing

Evaluating applications of generative artificial intelligence in questionnaire design, evaluation and testing

Harnessing AI and machine learning techniques for survey data collection

Incorporating machine learning into the response process

Innovations in Health Data Collection: Harnessing Technology for Enhanced Health Monitoring and Research

LLM-generated responses (synthetic respondents) and social science research

Network Sampling

New approaches to biomeasure collection in social surveys

Promises and Problems of AI Chatbots for Survey Research

Public perceptions on using novel digital data sources and collection methods

Quality Assurance in Digital Trace Data gathered through Data Donations: Frameworks, Tools, and Best Practices

Quality Assurance of Sensor Data in Survey Research

Questionnaire translation in a changing world: challenges and opportunities

Register-based sample surveys in practice

Showcasing software tools and Infrastructures for the collection and integration of new data sources

Surveys and HCI and UX Research: Applications, challenges, and opportunities

Synthetic Data Generation and Imputation with LLMs

The benefits and challenges of collecting biodata on remote studies

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Data Collection

Web Probing


Reducing total survey error


Assessing and improving survey data quality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)

Assessing the Quality of Survey Data

Improving the representativeness of longitudinal surveys

Increasing data quality in online surveys via contact and questionnaire design strategies

Innovations in Adaptive Survey Designs

Item Nonresponse and Unit Nonresponse in Panel Studies

Optimizing Follow-up: Innovations in Case Prioritization, Non-response Follow-up, and Following Movers

Representativeness in Social and Health Surveys

Responsive and Adaptive Surveys: Are they really addressing current Data Collection challenges?

Validating Elections Polls


Data management, processing, and documentation


Enhancing Survey Operations through Software Solutions: from questionnaire design to data curation

New developments in research data infrastructures

New Developments in Using, Sharing, and Re-using Metadata

Open Science in Survey Research

Sharing routes for individual-level research data and code


Data linkage and data harmonization


Advances in the integration of geospatial data for social research

Contextualizing surveys: Incorporating digital trace and media data

Data integration and other challenges: A Bayesian perspective

Environmental data in survey research – discrepancies between objective and subjective perspectives

Internal and external validity in data donation studies

Linking survey data with digital trace data: error sources and best practices

Pitfalls and challenges of combining survey and georeferenced data

Quality Assurance in the Linkage of Survey Data: Frameworks, Tools, and Best Practices

Survey Data Integration: Nonprobability Surveys, Administrative and Digital Trace Data

UK Veterans Survey using self-select and data linkage method

Why are respondents less likely to consent to data linkage in web than in-person interviews, and what can we do to increase informed consent in web?


Developments in survey analysis techniques


"Other, please specify": Analyzing Open-ended Responses for Sociodemographic Questions

Advances in in Survey Methodology: Accounting for Spatial and Temporal Information

Advancing Survey Research through AI and Machine Learning: Current Applications and Future Directions

Coding and Analyzing Open-Ended Questions in Surveys

Data skills for analysts in contemporary social survey research

Leveraging Natural Language Processing Techniques for the Analysis of Open-ended Survey Responses in Public Opinion Research

Missing Data, Selection Bias and Informative Censoring in Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Surveys

Mode Effects in Practice

new developments and applications in survey to survey imputation

Recent advances in collecting and analyzing open-ended survey responses

Survey and Sampling Methodologies in Network Data

The Use of Machine Learning Techniques When Dealing with Missing Data


Substantive applications of survey research


Bridging ESS and EVS to study social attitudes, norms and values across Europe

Current methodological challenges and applications in environmental and climate research

European Values Study and World Values Survey: Substantive Findings and Methodological Challenges in value research

How can we measure post-school educational contexts? – Analysing the interplay between students, schools, firms and universities

Measuring Discrimination: Methodological Challenges and Insights

Multi-source data for labour statistics

Number of hours usually worked? Methodological challenges in accurately measuring working time

Poverty – A Maze of Measurement

Rethinking the Study of Political Participation: Leveraging Survey Data, Emerging Methods and Data Sources in the Post-Pandemic World

Sources, consequences and measurement of antisemitism

Studying attitudes toward immigrants

Survey Research on Adult Education: Existing Challenges and New Opportunities

Surveying Social Norms: Challenges for Survey Research

The Social Impact of the Green Transition: Measures, Methods, and Tools

Unexpected Research Findings - Reasons and Consequences


Hard to reach populations


Best practices for multilingual surveys

Conventional and Innovative Sampling Methods for Hard-to-Survey Populations

Data collection and estimation with complex populations

Empowering Inclusion: Surveying LGBTQ+ Health Care Professionals Experiences in the Workplace

Enhancing survey participation rates of migrants and ethnic minority groups through tailored recruitment strategies

Hearing children’s voices: designing and pre-testing questions for children and young people

Issues in Survey Methods and Analysis about LGBTI+ Communities

Methods of including and boosting under-represented population subgroups

Potentials, and Challenges When Surveying Youth and Emerging Adults

Sampling migrants in general population surveys

Survey experiments with hard-to-survey populations: Solutions or new challenges?

Surveying Diversity: Methodological Issues and Best Practices

Surveying people living in nursing homes and other institutions: Challenges and solutions

Surveying the Elderly: Methodological Issues

Surveying Ukrainian Refugees in Europe: Implementation, Methods, Experiments, and Challenges

The role of online research panels in surveying hard-to-reach populations


Measuring concepts


Measurement and coding of job-related information: Occupation, industry, and skill


Other


Teaching Survey Methodology – Challenges and New Approaches

The debating chamber – big strategic survey research questions for community debate