Dear colleagues,

***Apologies for cross-posting***

The 7th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology http://bit.ly/2018-gesis-summer-school takes place *02-24 August at GESIS in Cologne*, Germany. The program is online, and registration is open at www.gesis.org/summerschool

*15 scholarships* by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) http://www.daad.de/deutschland/en via CDSS https://gess.uni-mannheim.de/doctoral-programs/social-and-behavioral-sciences-cdss.html as well as the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/ are available. For more information on scholarships please visit http://bit.ly/gss18-scholarships.

*15 courses* are scheduled, among them 5 short courses and 10 one-week courses. Below is a list of all courses – including three new courses [*NEW*] and two courses that are back [*BACK*] to our program.

*Short courses (02 - 03 August)*

Pretesting Survey Questions (Meitinger/Lenzner) | *NEW*

Introduction to Data Analysis Using Mplus (Blümke/Lechner/Danner)

Research Designs and Causal Inference (Eifler/Leitgöb)

Introduction to Data Analysis Using Stata (Schunck/Pforr)

*Week 1 (06 - 10 August)*

Introduction to Survey Design (Lugtig/Struminskaya)

Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling (Reinecke/Kessler)

Introduction to Data Analysis Using R (Kolb/Murray-Waters)

Applied Multiple Imputation (Geißler/Heisig) | *NEW*

*Week 2 (13 - 17 August)*

Questionnaire Design (Fuchs/Metzler)

Mixed-Mode and Mixed-Device Surveys (Toepoel/de Leeuw/Klausch) | *BACK*

Web Survey Design (Couper/Schaurer) | *BACK*

*Week 3 (20 - 24 August)*

Meta-Analysis in Social Research and Survey Methodology (Weiß/Daikeler)

Sampling, Weighting, and Estimation (Eckman)

Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing of Longitudinal Surveys (Al Baghal/Cernat)

[20-21 Aug] Open Science and Open Data (Netscher/Perry/Schwickerath) | *NEW*

Thanks to our cooperation with the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS) at the University of Mannheim https://gess.uni-mannheim.de/doctoral-programs.html, participants can obtain up to 4 *ECTS credit points* per one-week course.

Participants are invited to attend several plenary and social events including evening talks by experts in Survey Methodology, weekly welcome receptions as well as cultural and social excursions.

There is no registration deadline, but to secure a place in the course(s) of your choice and to book affordable accommodation, we strongly recommend that you register as soon as possible.

We would be very happy if you could forward this announcement to other potentially interested parties.

Thank you and best wishes,

Your GESIS Summer School team

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GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences

GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology

email: summerschool@gesis.org

web: www.gesis.org/summerschool

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