5th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology 4 - 26 August 2016, GESIS Cologne, Germany http://bit.ly/5th-gesis-summer-school

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The program for the 5th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology is online and registration is open: http://bit.ly/5th-gesis-summer-school

The Summer School will be held from 4 - 26 August at GESIS Cologne, Germany. 21 courses are scheduled, among them 4 short courses and 17 one-week courses. New to the program are a course on traditional and cognitive methods to pretest and evaluate survey questions, a course on how to ask sensitive questions to get valid answers, a course on mathematical tools survey researchers need, and preparatory short courses on the software packages Mplus and Stata. Full schedule:

*** Short courses (August 4-5) *** Research Data Management (Recker/Netscher) Introduction to Data Analysis Using Mplus (TBA) Research Designs and Causal Inference (Eifler/Leitgöb) Introduction to Data Analysis Using Stata (Spieß)

*** Week 1 (August 8-12) *** Introduction to Survey Design (Lugtig/Krieger) Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling: Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Mplus (Reinecke/Kessler) Introduction to Data Analysis Using R (Steinhauer/Würbach) Introduction to Web Surveys (Lozar Manfreda/Berzelak) Mixed-Mode and Mixed-Device Surveys (Toepoel/de Leeuw/Klausch) Factorial Survey Designs (Auspurg/Sauer)

*** Week 2 (August 15-19) *** Web Survey Instrument Design (Couper/Funke) Understanding and Modeling Measurement Error (Billiet/Revilla) Testing and Evaluating Survey Questions (Maitland/Yan) Item Nonresponse and Multiple Imputation (Meinfelder/Rässler) Design and Implementation of Longitudinal Surveys (Baghal/Cernat) Questionnaire Design (Fuchs/Kunz)

*** Week 3 (August 22-26) *** Sensitive Questions in Surveys (Krumpal/Wolter) Planning and Monitoring Survey Fieldwork: Balancing Survey Errors (Feskens/Kappelhof) Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists (Elff) Testing Survey Data for Measurement Equivalence across Countries and Time (Schmidt/Davidov/Seddig) Sampling, Weighting and Estimation (Eckman)

Thanks to our cooperation with CDSS, University of Mannheim, participants can obtain up to 4 ECTS points per one-week course: http://bit.ly/gss16-ECTS

In addition to courses, we have prepared a number of plenary and social events including weekly welcome receptions, cultural and social trips as well as evening talks by experts in Survey Methodology.

There is no registration deadline, but in order to secure a place in the course of your choice and to book affordable accommodation, we recommend that you register as soon as possible. If you book and pay for a course by 30 April, you will receive a 50 Euro discount off the one-week course fees.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) provides 10 scholarships for international participants (apply by 15 April): http://bit.ly/gss16-daad-sholarships

You will find more information on our website: http://bit.ly/5th-gesis-summer-school

Thank you and best wishes, Your GESIS Summer School Team --- GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology

email: summerschool@gesis.org web: http://bit.ly/5th-gesis-summer-school facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GESISSummerSchool

-- Sebastian E. Wenz

Scientific Coordinator of the GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology

Telephone: +49 221-47694-166 E-mail: sebastian.wenz@gesis.org

GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences Staff division of Knowledge Transfer