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Warsaw 2009: Overview of sessions

This is a list of the sessions to be held at the conference. The sessions are subdivided into broad topics. Click on one of the topics below to jump to the sessions in that topic.

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Topics:

• Substantive Applications of Survey Methodology
• Sampling and Nonresponse
• Data Archive Teaching
• Design and Quality of Survey Questions
• Adding Data to Surveys
• Mode of Data Collection and Data Enhancement
• Social Indicators
• Data Analysis
• Qualitative Methods
• Comparative Research
• Fieldwork Monitoring
• Special Issues related to Survey Research

Substantive Applications of Survey Methodology

• Analysing Attitudes Towards Migration with Large Comparative Survey Data (I)
• Analysing Attitudes Towards Migration with Large Comparative Survey Data (II)
• Basic Human Values (I)
• Basic Human Values (II)
• Emotional Intelligence Research
• European Values Study (I)
• European Values Study (II)
• European Values Study (III)
• Health Surveys in Europe
• Issues in Business Survey Methodology
• Macro Mechanisms and Macro Hypotheses
• Measurement of Social Capital
• Measuring the Quality of Democracy by means of Survey Data
• Network Survey Measurement
• The study of left and right in political science
• Time use surveys: emerging issues (I)
• Time use surveys: emerging issues (II)
• Trust and Trustworthiness (I)
• Trust and Trustworthiness (II)

Sampling and Nonresponse

• New Challenges in Sampling (I)
• New Challenges in Sampling (II)
• New Challenges in Sampling (III)
• Nonresponse
• Selection Bias in Panel Research (I)
• Selection Bias in Panel Research (II)
• Strategies for Nonresponse Adjustments (I)
• Strategies for Nonresponse Adjustments (II)
• Understanding nonresponse and attrition: Research from the UK Survey Design and Measurement Initiative

Data Archive Teaching

• Access to Survey Data on the Internet (I)
• Access to Survey Data on the Internet (II)
• How to facilitate in order to compare - infrastructures for data cooperation
• Quality Enhancement in Repeated Surveys

Design and Quality of Survey Questions

• Can multiple question testing and evaluation methods improve survey questions or predict sources of measurement error?
• Implementation Issues in Internet-based Surveys
• Interviewer and Respondent Behaviour in Survey Interviews
• Methods and approaches for coding textual survey variables
• Methods of Evaluating the Quality of Data Collection in Surveys
• Questionnaire design in panel surveys
• Questionnaire Developing and Testing

Adding Data to Surveys

• Connecting data from independent surveys
• Media-reported events: the context of surveys

Mode of Data Collection and Data Enhancement

• Analysis and Evaluation of Survey Paradata
• Detecting and Adjusting for Nonresponse Bias using Contextual and Paradata
• Mobile Phones and other ICT in Survey Research: Implications for Data Quality
• Use of the Internet and Mixed-Mode Surveys to Survey the General Public (I)
• Use of the Internet and Mixed-Mode Surveys to Survey the General Public (II)
• WEBSURVNET: Network on challenges in survey methodology for web surveys

Social Indicators

• Comparative social surveys in Europe: issues in methodology and implementation
• Economic indicators and indices
• Integration of objective and subjective indicators: methodological and technical issues
• Measuring Civil Society - What are the issues?
• Quality of measures for concepts of Social sciences (I)
• Quality of measures for concepts of Social sciences (II)
• Social Indicators of Trust in Criminal Justice

Data Analysis

• Analysis Strategies for Cross-Cultural Research
• Causal Analysis Using Multi-Wave Panel Data: Problems and Solutions
• Comparing and Evaluating Autoregressive, Latent Trajectory, Autoregressive Latent Trajectory, and Continuous Time ALT Models (I)
• Comparing and Evaluating Autoregressive, Latent Trajectory, Autoregressive Latent Trajectory, and Continuous Time ALT Models (II)
• IRT: Item Response Theory in Survey Methodology (I)
• IRT: Item Response Theory in Survey Methodology (II)
• Marginal models for dependent data
• Methodological Issues in Multilevel Analysis for Cross-national Research
• Testing Structural Equations Models

Qualitative Methods

• Advancements in Cognitive Testing Methodology
• Enhancing Survey Methodology with Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative and qualitative approaches to validate psychological and educational questionnaires in cross-cultural research

Comparative Research

• Comparing Social Survey Data in a Global Perspective. The cases of the CSES and the ISSP.
• Designing and testing survey instruments for comparative research
• Investigating social change with surveys: problems of comparability, harmonization and cumulation
• Language, Communication, and Research in the Comparative Context
• Quality Monitoring Challenges in Cross-National Data Collection (I)
• Quality Monitoring Challenges in Cross-National Data Collection (II)

Fieldwork Monitoring

• Fieldwork monitoring
• Interviewers as Agents of Data Collection (I)
• Interviewers as Agents of Data Collection (II)
• Non-response bias in cross-national surveys: an evaluation of Designs for detection and adjustment (I)
• Non-response bias in cross-national surveys: an evaluation of Designs for detection and adjustment (II)

Special Issues related to Survey Research

• Analysing children born of war across time, nations and disciplines (I)
• Analysing children born of war across time, nations and disciplines (II)
• Climate Change Survey: substantive and methodological issues
• Cognition in survey research (I)
• Cognition in survey research (II)
• Data quality in surveys among the elderly
• Demonstrations of new resources
• Special Issues
• Surveying sensitive subjects