Improving the representativeness of longitudinal surveys |
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| Coordinator 1 | Dr Nicole Watson (University of Melbourne) |
| Coordinator 2 | Dr Pablo Cabrera Alvarez (University of Essex) |
Managers of household panel studies and cohort studies are facing increasing challenges in maintaining or improving the representativeness of their studies. Such challenges include declining response rates, changing preferences in how respondents want to be contacted or interviewed, shortage of interviewers, maintaining and improving engagement and commitment of respondents with less engaging modes of data collection, and how best to tailor or mix modes and methods for the greatest benefit.
We invite submissions to this session that focus on the representativeness of longitudinal surveys (rather than just overall response rates). We are more interested in exploring and understanding the heterogeneous effects of various modes and methods on subgroups (rather than the main effects) and how these can be best used to improve overall representativeness. Submissions are encouraged on the following topics:
- Experiments in improving response or representativeness
- Refreshment samples of new immigrants or other groups not represented or under-represented
- Adaptive survey design approaches to improve representativeness
- Optimally mixed modes and methods to improve participation amongst hard-to-reach or hard-to-interview sample members
- New methods or approaches to improve response probabilities among specific groups.