*Call for Papers ESRA 2015 "Measuring Social Networks in Large-Scale
Surveys"*
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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
Dear colleagues,
die sechste Konferenz der European Survey Research Association wird vom
13. bis 17. Juli 2015 in Reykjavik (Island) stattfinden. Kerstin Hoenig
(LIfBi, Bamberg), Reinhard Pollak (WZB, Berlin) und ich organisieren
dort gemeinsam die Session "Measuring Social Networks in Large-Scale
Surveys: Challenges and Practice of Ego-Centred and Complete Network
Approaches". Anbei unser entsprechender Call for Papers (Deadline: 15.
Januar 2015), der vielleicht auch für Sie/euch interessant ist. Wir
würden uns außerdem freuen, wenn Sie/ihr den Call an potentiell
interessierte Kolleg/innen weiterleiten.
The 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA)
will take place 13th-17th July 2015 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Kerstin
Hoenig (LIfBi, Bamberg), Reinhard Pollak (WZB, Berlin) and I will host a
session entitled 'Measuring Social Networks in Large-Scale Surveys:
Challenges and Practice of Ego-Centred and Complete Network Approaches'.
Please find attached our joint call for papers (Deadline: 15 January
2015), which might be of interest for you. Please feel free to further
distribute it.
Vielen Dank & viele Grüße / With kind regards,
Benjamin (Schulz)
Call for Papers: Measuring Social Networks in Large-Scale Surveys:
Challenges and Practice of Ego-Centred and Complete Network Approaches
Session at the 6th Conference of the European Survey Research
Association (ESRA), 13th to 17th July 2015 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
*Organizers:*Benjamin Schulz, Kerstin Hoenig, and Reinhard Pollak.
Survey researchers measure social networks in two fundamental ways: i)
in an ego-centred manner that captures an actor’s ties and related
characteristics, ii) in a broader way that captures complete networks
within predefined boundaries. The latter approach gains increasing
attention as recent projects in many countries and fields collect
complete network data.
This increase largely follows from advances in survey instruments for
complete networks and in statistical modelling, especially for network
dynamics. Methodologically, complete network analysis makes it possible
to separate selection and influence processes. These surveys, however,
are mainly conducted in schools as meaningful network boundaries are
easy to implement in this context.
Ego-centred measures offer the chance to collect network data in
contexts where a complete network measurement is not feasible. To meet
the challenge of reversed causality and endogeneity as a consequence of
the non-random, often homophilous, formation of social ties, panel data
including repeated, or prospective and retrospective, measures are
promising. Several international large-scale surveys made significant
progress in this domain.
We invite researchers from both camps to submit papers to promote a
discussion that allows for a better evaluation of the advantages and
pitfalls of each approach. Topics might include:
·Novel approaches in the measurement and modelling of social networks
and network dynamics
·Means to identify causal network effects through survey design or
statistical modelling
·Ways to assess the reliability and validity of network measures
·Strategies for the specification of network boundaries
·Studies on how to identify and deal with compositional changes.
To submit a paper abstract, visit the conference website at
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferenceand follow the
instructions. Please do not forget to select this session from the list
of sessions provided in the submission form. You may submit a maximum of
two papers on which you are enlisted as presenting author. The closing
date for submission of paper proposals is *15 January 2015*.
Until *29 January 2015,* corresponding authors will be informed whether
or not their paper has been accepted for presentation in the session.**
Authors of selected papers will be invited to give an oral presentation
of their paper. Presentations must be given in English and should not
exceed 15 minutes to leave ample time for discussion. To strengthen the
quality of both on-site discussion and feedback full papers should be
submitted by *15 June 2015* at the latest.
Dear colleagues,
we are very pleased to inform you about our session on “Multifactorial Survey Experiments: Factorial Surveys, Choice Experiments, and Conjoint Analysis” at the 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) in Reykjavik, 13-17 July 2015.
We are interested in methodological research on the design of factorial surveys, choice experiments or conjoint analyses, sampling techniques to select the experimental treatments, analysis strategies. Topics could be:
1) Design of questionnaire: How to present vignettes to respondents? What kind of answering scale provides most valid results? How to prevent order effects? How do respondents cope with the information provided on vignettes or choice sets? How does the mode of the interview (PAPI, CAPI, etc.) influence response behavior?
2) Sampling techniques: What are the benefits and drawbacks of fractional versus random sampling? How do sampling techniques like blocking by respondent strata and interviewers influence efficiency of estimates?
3) Analysis techniques and validity: Which models provide unbiased estimates? How to address possible censoring of responses? Respondents’ idiosyncrasies? When to use multilevel analysis and how to validate results?
If you are currently working on one of these or related topics we cordially invite you to submit an abstract online by 15 January 2015 via the conference webpage:
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference.
Please find the full CfP below.
With kind regards
Katrin Auspurg, Goethe University Frankfurt
Carsten Sauer, Bielefeld University
Peter Steiner, University of Wisconsin Madison
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Call for Papers - Please submit proposals via the ESRA website: (http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference; deadline: January 15th 2015)
Multifactorial Survey Experiments: Factorial Surveys, Choice Experiments, and Conjoint Analysis
Katrin Auspurg (Goethe University Frankfurt), Carsten Sauer (Bielefeld University), and Peter M. Steiner (University of Wisconsin Madison)
There is a fast growing trend in the social sciences to combine the advantages of multifactorial experimental designs with surveys. Factorial surveys – often labelled as “vignettes studies” – have been used for more than 30 years to gather data on descriptions of hypothetical situations or objects to explore principles of judgment and decision making. Choice experiments help to explore respondents’ preferences and willingness to pay. In addition there is increasing use of conjoint analyses in sociology and political sciences. The experimental design provides a high internal validity, while the survey design enhances external validity. Computer assisted interviewing that allows implementing many different treatments have made these methods even more popular.
Despite frequent use there are still many open questions concerning design features of multifactorial survey experiments that offer most reliable and valid results. We are interested in methodological research on the design of factorial surveys, choice experiments or conjoint analyses, sampling techniques to select the experimental treatments, analysis strategies.
Topics could be:
1) Design of questionnaire: How to present the vignettes to the respondents? What kind of answering scale provides most valid results? How to prevent order effects? How do respondents cope with the information provided on vignettes or choice sets? How does the mode of the interview (PAPI, CAPI, etc.) influence response behavior?
2) Sampling techniques: What are the benefits and drawbacks of fractional versus random sampling? How do sampling techniques like blocking by respondent strata and interviewers influence efficiency of estimates?
3) Analysis techniques and validity: Which models provide unbiased estimates? How to address possible censoring of responses? Respondents’ idiosyncracies? When to use multilevel analyses and how to validate results?
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Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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Unten stehend finden Sie den"Call for Papers" für eine Konferenzsession
zum Thema "Soziale Erwünschtheit und nicht-reaktive Methoden in der
Survey Forschung", welche wir im kommenden Jahr im Rahmen der ESRA 2015,
die an der University of Iceland, Reykjavik vom 13. bis 17. July 2015
stattfindet, organisieren. Bis zum 15. Januar können Beiträge
eingereicht werden:
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference
Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen!
Mit besten Grüßen,
Ivar Krumpal, Roger Berger und Mark Trappmann
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Social Desirability and Non-Reactive Methods in Survey Research
Social desirability bias is a problem in surveys collecting data on
private or norm-violating issues (e.g. sexual behavior, health related
issues, voting preferences, income, or unsocial opinions) as soon as the
respondent’s true score differs from his or her perception of the social
desirable score. Due to the respondents’ strive for social approval and
keeping a favourable self-image as well as data protection concerns,
collecting valid data on private or norm-violating issues is a
challenging task. More specifically, respondents may engage in
impression management or self-deception or edit their answer before
reporting it. Non-reactive data collection methods could improve
measurements and data quality in surveys where social desirability bias
is a potential problem. Therefore, the possibilities and limits of
non-reactive methods (e.g. record linkage approaches, surveys without
questions, biomarkers, field experiments or administrative data usage)
will be critically discussed and compared to methods which are based on
self-reports.
This session has four main goals: (1) discussion of the theoretical
foundation of the research on social desirability bias in the context of
a general theory of human psychology and social behavior. A clearer
understanding of the social interactions between the actors that are
involved in the data collection process could provide empirical
researchers with a substantiated basis for optimizing their survey
design and data collection to achieve high quality data; (2)
presentation of current empirical research focusing on non-reactive
methods of data collection in connection with the problem of social
desirability; (3) discussion of new designs combining or contrasting
non-reactive methods with standard ‘question-and-answer’ survey
measurement in innovative ways; (4) exploration of possibilities of
integrating such new and innovative approaches in well-established,
large-scale population surveys taking into account problems of research
ethics and data protection.
Please submit an abstract via the ESRA website
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register by 15 January
2015. Decisions about acceptance will be communicated by the end of
February 2015. Please forward this request for submissions to others who
may be interested in this session. Do not hesitate to contact us if you
have any queries about the session.
Thank you.
Best wishes,
Ivar Krumpal, University of Leipzig, Germany
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~sozio/content/site/detail_m47_lehrveran.php
Roger Berger, University of Leipzig, Germany
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~sozio/content/site/detail_m49_lehrveran.php
Mark Trappmann, Institute for Employment Research, Germany
http://www.iab.de/123/section.aspx/Mitarbeiter/511
Call for Papers: Measuring social relations, social networks and social capital in comparative surveys
Session at the 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), 13th to 17th July 2015 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Organizers: Christof Wolf (GESIS) and Dominique Joye (University of Lausanne)
The measurement of social relations, social networks and social capital, here understood as resources accessible through one's social relations, has attracted a lot of attention. Dependent on the intended purpose there exists instruments to measure aspects of specific relations (spouse, best friend), instrument capturing "personal communities", i.e. the egocentric network approach, or instruments measuring social capital through, for example, social support questionnaires or the position or resource generators.
While we know a lot about the performance of these measures in a national context we lack information on their performance in comparative studies. This session therefore aims to explore the challenges posed by adapting survey instruments measuring social relations, social networks and social capital to a comparative, cross-national investigation. These challenges include problems of
* equivalence of the meaning of stimuli; e.g. do the terms "friends", "discuss important matters" or "to be close to someone" have the same meaning across countries.
* equivalence of resources; e.g. is knowing a person who can lend me money or who can repair my car equally important in all societies? or
* equivalence of occupations selected for the position generator; e.g. can we find a set of occupations that reflects the entire social structure of different countries equally well?
Of course, these are only few selected examples and there exists many more. We welcome all contributions investigating the challenges encountered when trying to measure social relations, network and capital in cross-national surveys
To submit a paper abstract, visit the conference website at http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference and follow the instructions. Please do not forget to select this session from the list of sessions provided in the submission form. You may submit a maximum of two papers on which you are enlisted as presenting author. The closing date for submission of paper proposals is 15 January 2015.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to give an oral presentation of their paper. Presentations must be given in English.
Call for Papers
6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association
Reykjavik, Iceland, July 13-17, 2015
Session: Measuring gender role attitudes
Chair: Jessica Walter, Christof Wolf
Dear colleagues,
we would like to draw your attention to the call for papers for our session "Measuring gender role attitudes" at the 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association.
The session aims at discussing how equivalence of measures of gender role attitudes over time and across countries can be ensured and how these measures can be adjusted to social changes. The focus of the discussion is on adjustments of measures of gender role attitudes which improve the equivalence of measures and on best practices for an implementation of improved measures in cross-cultural or longitudinal surveys.
For analyses over time or/and across countries the equivalence of measures of gender role attitudes is crucial. Measures of gender role attitudes should not change over time and should not depend on the cultural context. Social changes such as a differentiation of family patterns and changes in (female) labor force participation and education challenge the assumption that the measures are equivalent over time. Based on these changes we suggest that the measures of gender role attitudes need to be revisited and updated. By doing so, different cultural contexts, which may limit the equivalence of measures of gender role attitudes across countries, also come into focus.
We welcome all papers which deal with the advancement of measures of gender role attitudes or use new measures of gender role attitudes with focus on analyses over time and/or across countries.
To submit a presentation abstract, sign up or log in to the ESRA website:
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org
After logging in to your account, click "Submit paper" and follow the instructions. You may submit a maximum of two papers on which you are enlisted as presenting author.
The closing date for submission of paper proposals is 15 January 2015.
We are looking forward to your proposals.
Best
Jessica and Christof
The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (*BIGSSS*)
invites applications for *12 – 15 Ph.D. Stipends/Fellowships*and *2
Postdoctoral Positions*
BIGSSS thematic fields are:
• Global Governance and Regional Integration
• Welfare State, Inequality, and Quality of Life
• Changing Lives in Changing Socio-Cultural Contexts
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Dear colleagues,
The 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) will take place 13th-17th July 2015 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
We invite you to submit papers to our session entitled: "Recent developments in the analysis of panel data".
Session abstract:
Panel data offer two major advantages compared to cross-sectional data:
1) They allow to identify causal effects under weaker assumptions (within estimation)
2) They allow to estimate individual trajectories over time (growth curve modeling)
Not all model classes that are available for panel data analysis, exploit these advantages fully.
There is much uncertainty amongst users, which kind of models to use. On the other side, there
are new model classes, for which it is quite unclear what the assumptions are that they need to
identify a causal effect (e.g. structural equation models for panel data, and multi-level models).
Therefore, we especially welcome papers that
1) compare different model classes and their usefulness for panel data analyses, or that
2) apply recently developed model classes and explicate their assumptions.
To submit a presentation abstract, sign up or log in to the ESRA website:
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org
After logging in to your account, click "Submit paper" and follow the instructions. You may submit a maximum of two papers on which you are enlisted as presenting author.
The closing date for submission of paper proposals is 15 January 2015.
Best wishes
Klaus Pforr, Jette Schröder, Josef Brüderl
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Dr. Klaus Pforr
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
B2,1
P.O. Box 122155
D - 68072 Mannheim
Tel: +49 621 1246 298
Fax: +49 621 1246 100
E-Mail: klaus.pforr(a)gesis.org<mailto:klaus.pforr@gesis.org>
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