Survey Design and Measurement

Project outputs

The Survey Design and Measurement Initiative ended on 31 December 2011.

Understanding Non-Response and Reducing Non-Response Bias
Professor Peter Lynn, ISER

Book chapters

Blom, A., Lynn, P. and Jäckle, A. (2010) 'The Use of Contact Data in Understanding Cross-National Differences in Unit Nonresponse' in J. A. Harkness, M. Braun, B. Edwards, T. P. Johnson, L. Lyberg, P. Ph. Mohler, B. E. Pennell and T. W. Smith (eds.) Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts, Wiley.

Presentations

Blom, A. (2008) 'Explaining differences across countries in survey contact rates' (PDF). Presented at Annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, New Orleans, 15 May 2008.
Blom, A. (2009) 'Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Survey Contact Rates: Application of Decomposition Methods' (PDF). Paper presented at 20th International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse, Lausanne, Switzerland, 31 August-2 September 2009.
Blom, A. (2009) 'Nonresponse Adjustments in the European Social Survey: The Added Value of Process Weights' (PDF). Paper presented at The Application of Paradata in Social Surveys, London School of Economics, 25 August 2009.
Fumagalli, L., Laurie, H. and Lynn, P. (2009) 'Methods to Reduce Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys: An experiment' (PDF). Paper presented at European Survey Research Association conference, Warsaw, June 29-July 3, 2009.
Fumagalli, L., Laurie, H. and Lynn, P. (2010) 'Experiments with Methods to Reduce Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys' (PDF). Paper presented at ESRC Research Methods Festival, Oxford, 5-8 July 2010.
Fumagalli, L., Laurie, H. and Lynn, P. (2010) 'Experiments with Methods to Reduce the Costs and Increase the Effectiveness of Between-Wave Attrition Reduction Efforts' (PDF). Paper presented at Panel Survey Methods Workshop, Mannheim, Germany, 2010.
Jäckle, A., Lynn, P., Sinibaldi, J. and Tipping, S. (2009) 'Interviewer Characteristics, their Doorstep Behaviour, and Survey Co-operation' (PDF). Paper presented at Forschungskolloquium Empirische Sozialforschung, Konstanz, 24 June 2009.
Lynn, P. (2008) 'Understanding Non-Response and Reducing Non-Response Bias' (PDF). Paper presented at ESRC SDMI Co-ordination Meeting, Royal Statistical Society, London, 28 October 2008.
Lynn, P. (2009) 'A Methodological Research Agenda for Longitudinal Surveys' (PDF). Paper presented at XXV Statistics Canada International Methodology Symposium, October 2009.
Lynn, P. (2009) 'Paradata for Nonresponse Adjustment – panel discussion' (PDF). Paper presented at 20th International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse, Lausanne, Switzerland, 31 August-2 September 2009.
Lynn, P. (2009) 'Understanding Non-Response and Reducing Non-Response Bias' (PDF). Cathie Marsh Memorial Seminar, Royal Statistical Society, London, 17 November 2009.
Sinibaldi, J. et al. (2010) 'Assessment of the Quality of Interviewer Observations' (PDF). Paper presented at Recent Advances in the Use of Paradata in Social Survey Research, Royal Statistical Society, London, 9 December 2010.
Sinibaldi, J., Jäckle, A., Tipping, S., and Lynn, P. (2009) 'Interviewer Characteristics, their Doorstep Behaviour, and Survey Co-operation' (PDF). Paper presented at Annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Hollywood, Florida, 14-17 May 2009.
Sinibaldi, J., Tipping, S., Jäckle, A. and Lynn, P. (2009) 'Do interviewer characteristics predict their contacting behaviour and success?' (PDF). Paper presented at The Application of Paradata in Social Surveys, London School of Economics, 25 August 2009.

Working papers

Mixed Modes and Measurement Error
Ms Gerry Nicolaas, NatCen, Survey Methods Unit

Event

Presentations

Hope, S., Campanelli, P., Jäckle, A., Lynn, P., Nandi, A., Nicolaas, G. (2009) 'Mixed Modes and Measurement Error: Comparing face-to-face, telephone and web modes' (PDF). Paper presented at the Priority Programme on Survey Methodology, Improving Survey Methods Conference, Bremen, 12-13 November 2009.
Hope, S. and Nicolaas, G. (2008) 'Mixed Modes and Measurement Error: Study design and literature review' (PDF). Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Social Science Methodology: RC33 - Logic and Methodology in Sociology, Naples, 1-5 September 2008.
Nicolaas, G. and Campanelli, P. (2010) 'Designing questions for mixed mode data collection: What have we learnt so far?' (PPT). Paper presented at New Measurement Issues in Survey Research, RSS, London, 21 September 2010.

The Commodity Chain of the Household: from Survey Design to Policy Planning
Dr Ernestina Coast, London School of Economics

Presentations

Coast, E., Randall, S. and Leone, T. (2007) 'The commodity chain of the household'. Paper presented at the 5th UAPS (Union for African Population Studies) Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, 10-14 December 2007.
Coast, E., Randall, S. and Leone, T. (2008) 'The commodity chain of the household: from survey design to policy planning'. Presentation at BSPS Conference, University of Manchester, 10-12 September 2008.
Coast, E., Randall, S. and Leone, T. (2008) 'The commodity chain of the household: from survey design to policy planning'. Paper presented at 'Defining the household: implications of household definitions in surveys and censuses', London, 15 May 2008.
Coast, E., Randall, S. and Leone, T. (2008) 'The commodity chain of the household: from survey design to policy planning' (PDF). Poster presented at the European Association for Population Studies, Barcelona, 9-12 July 2008.
Coast, E., Randall, S. and Leone, T. (2009) 'The commodity chain of the household: from survey design to policy and practice'. Paper presented at XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference, Marrakech, 27 September-2 October 2009.
Coast, E., Randall, S. and Leone, T. (2010) 'The household in household surveys' (PPT). Paper presented at New Measurement Issues in Survey Research, RSS, London, 21 September 2010.
Leone, T., Coast, E. and Randall, S. (2008) 'The concept of the household' (PPT). Paper presented at ESRC Research Methods Festival, Oxford, 30 June-3 July 2008.
Leone, T., Coast, E. and Randall, S. (2008) 'The commodity chain of the household'. Presentation at Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 17-19 April 2008.
Leone, T., Coast, E. and Randall, S. (2009) 'Did you sleep here last night? The impact of the household definition in sample surveys: a Tanzanian case study'. Presentation at British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference, Brighton, 9-11 September 2009.
Randall, S., Coast, E. and Leone, T. (2008) (PDF). Paper presented at 'Vital signs: researching real life' University of Manchester, 9-11 September 2008.
Randall, S., Coast, E. and Leone, T. (2008) 'Une culture disciplinaire et ses pieges: l'emploi du terme "menage" en demographie'. AIDELF, Colloque Demographie et Culture, Quebec, Canada, August 2008.
Randall, S., Coast, E. and Leone, T. (2008) 'The dangers of disciplinary culture: unpacking demography's use of the "household'. Presentation at Anthropology of Africa Seminar, LSE, 14 October 2008.