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Dear Colleagues,
Please consider the following call for papers at ESRA 2011 (Lausanne,
Switzerland from July 18-22, 2011) for the session listed below.
Please submit an abstract of your paper containing no more than 250
words via the ESRA website:
http://surveymethodology.eu/conferences/lausanne-info/
The closing date for submission of paper proposals is 14 January 2011.
With best regards
Jost Reinecke, Martin Spiess, Kristian Kleinke, Roel de Jong
(Session Coordinators)
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Call for Paper Proposals
Session: Multiple imputation of complex data designs
Description:
Throughout the last couple of years multiple imputation has become an
increasingly popular and widely accepted method to deal with missing
data. Multiple imputation is one prominent and -- if properly applied --
well justified method to allow valid analyses of incompletely observed
data. However, we find that existing multiple imputation procedures are
still limited with regard to handling complex clustered or panel
datasets adequately. Hence, a fruitful and necessary avenue for current
and future research is to generalize imputation techniques
correspondingly. We invite researchers to present their research on
multiple imputation (both theoretical developments and practical
applications) especially with a focus on complex data designs (e.g.
clustered data, longitudinal data).
Dear Colleagues,
Please consider the following calls for papers at ESRA 2011 (Lausanne,
Switzerland from *July 18-22, 2011*) for the sessions listed below.
Please submit an abstract of your paper containing no more than 250
words via the ESRA website:
http://surveymethodology.eu/conferences/
The closing date for submission of paper proposals is 14 January 2011.
With best regards
Natalja Menold
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Call for Paper Proposals
Session: Falsifications in Survey Data: Prevention and Detection
Coordinators:
Natalja Menold1, Peter Winker2, Gesine Guellner1, Nina Storfinger2
1GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences; 2University of Giessen
Researchers were invited to submit papers dealing with falsifications of
survey data as intentional departure from guidelines and instructions by
the interviewers. These falsifications my consist on fabrications of
interviews, falsifying of the survey process data, deliberately
miscoding the answers to a question and deliberately interviewing of
nonsampled persons. The papers could present theoretical and
methodological approaches as well as empirical studies. These my include
the following topics:
- prevalence of falsifications,
- interviewers’ motivation,
- development and evaluation of methods for prevention or detection of
falsified data,
- falsifications and survey mode
- falsifications and survey bias
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Call for Paper Proposals
Session: "Pioneering Survey Translation: Frontier research in
questionnaire translation and multilingual measurement instruments"
Coordinators: Dorothée Behr, Brita Dorer, both GESIS - Leibniz Institute
for the Social Sciences
For this session we invite papers on state-of-the-art methodologies in
questionnaire translation. These papers may range from integration of
translation into the questionnaire design process over translation and
assessment methodologies (team approaches, cognitive interviewing,
expert rating, language harmonization across same-language-versions,
etc.) to IT and web methodologies that support translation and
assessment. We particularly welcome papers that relate any methods used
to an underlying concept of what a good translation should look like or
to the solution of specific translation problems.
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Call for Paper Proposals
Session: Construction of Answer Scale Formats in Questionnaires
Coordinator:
Natalja Menold, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Researchers were invited to submit papers dealing with design of rating
scales for questions/items to measure opinions or behaviour in surveys.
Especially of interest are Likert scales as well as their alternatives.
The papers could include questions about the several design aspects of
answer scales such as number of categories, usage of middle category,
usage of unipolar or bipolar answer scales, usage of numerical and/or
verbal labels, ascending or descending order of categories. Of interest
are not only the effects of design aspects on the formatting of answers
and reliability and validity of data but also studies on mediators and
moderators in this process, e.g. effects of cognitional or motivational
factors as well as socio demographical personal characteristics.
Specifics in design of answer scales in different survey modes, the
comparability of answer scales in mixed mode surveys as well as their
intercultural comparability are further topics of interest.
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CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS
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To be considered for inclusion in the scientific programme of ESRA 2011,
please
submit an abstract of your paper containing no more than 250 words via
the ESRA
website:
http://surveymethodology.eu/conferences/
To submit a presentation, sign up or log in to the ESRA website. After
logging
in with your account, click "Propose a new presentation" to start
submitting.
The closing date for submission of paper proposals is 14 January 2011.
Proposals are invited in any area of survey methodology, or in substantive
areas of survey research. We particularly welcome submissions in the
following
areas:
* Sampling and sample design
* Web surveys
* Unit Nonresponse and attrition
* Item nonresponse
* Weighting and imputation
* Question testing and piloting
* Survey mode
* Data linkage
* Election polling and public opinion
* Survey analysis techniques
* Methods for cross-national analysis
* Paradata and fieldwork
* Substantive applications
* Longitudinal surveys
* Data archiving
The inaugural ESRA award for the best paper submitted by an early-career
researcher
Researchers within five years of the completion of their doctorate or within
five years of starting a career in survey research who wish to be considered
for the ESRA Early-Career Researcher award should submit full papers to the
prize committee. The winning paper will be awarded a prize of 600 euros.
More
information about the Early-Career Researcher award will be announced on the
conference website.
Professor Patrick Sturgis, Conference Chair
Kathrin Kissau, FORS (local organising committee)
Marieke Voorpostel, FORS (local organising committee)
Contact information: conference(a)surveymethodology.eu
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Dr. Natalja Menold, Dipl.-Psych.
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Survey Design and Methodology (SDM)
B2,1
D-68159 Mannheim
Tel.: 0621 / 1246 286
Fax: 0621 / 1246 100
Mail: natalja.menold(a)gesis.org
www.gesis.org