Dear colleagues,

***Apologies for cross-posting***

The 9th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology http://bit.ly/2020-gesis-summer-school takes place *30 July – 21 August 2020 at GESIS in Cologne*, Germany. The program is online and registration is open at http://bit.ly/2020-gesis-summer-school

*Scholarships* sponsored by the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/ are available. For more information on scholarships please visit http://bit.ly/gss20-scholarships

*Please find the full program below. For detailed course descriptions and registration visit **training.gesis.org* https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&pID=0xB9A0C0556EC94063A6171CC5D5946F0E&lang=en_US

*_Short courses (30 - 31 July)*

Introduction to Data Analysis Using Stata

Introduction to Data Analysis Using MPlus

*_Week 1 (03 - 07 August)*

Research Designs and Causal Inference

Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling: Confirmatory Factor Analysis with MPlus

Introduction to Data Analysis Using R

Mathematical Tools for Social Scientists: A Refresher Course with R

*_Week 2 (10 - 14 August)*

Introduction to Survey Design

Applied Multiple Imputation

Web Surveys

Applied Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

*_Week 3 (17 - 21 August)*

Questionnaire Design

Survey Sampling and Weighting

Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing Longitudinal Surveys

Mixed Methods and Multimethod Research

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/social-and-behavioral-sciences-cdss.html, participants can obtain a certificate acknowledging a workload worth *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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