The Application of Paradata in Social Surveys

One-Day Seminar:
Tuesday 25 August 2009, London School of Economics

A one-day event that presented the latest research in this area. This event was targeted at a wider audience of academics as well as survey sponsors and data collection organisations.

This event has already taken place. To view the presentations, click on the links below.

Speakers:

Annelies Blom (GESIS, Germany) “Nonresponse Adjustments in the European Social Survey: The Added Value of Process Weights” abstract.
Presentation (ppt)

Gabi Durrant (University of Southampton) “Using paradata to predict best times of contact conditioning on household and interviewer influences” abstract.
Presentation (pdf)

Jennifer Sinibaldi (NatCen) “Do interviewer characteristics predict their contacting behaviour and success? An analysis using paradata from call records and an interviewer survey”
Presentation (ppt)

Sunghee Lee (University of California) “Responsive Design for Random Digit Dial Surveys Using Paradata”
Presentation (pdf)

Kristen Olson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) “Paradata for Dynamic Response Propensities and Nonresponse Adjustment”
Presentation (pdf)

James Wagner (University of Michigan) “Paradata and Alternative Measures of Survey Data Quality”
Presentation (pdf)

For further information about the network please contact:

Ms Gerry Nicolaas
National Centre for Social Research
35 Northampton Square
London EC1V 0AX
Telephone: 020 7549 7067
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