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Quality Enhancement in Repeated Surveys

Planned on Tuesday, 8:30 - 10:30 in Room 1.4.

Coordinators:

Anouk Zabal; GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Eric Harrison; City University London, United Kingdom

Description:

One of the challenges for long-running social surveys is finding ways to continually improve the quality of the design and implementation of each round. Finding ways to incorporate quality enhancement procedures within the constraints of the fieldwork cycle presents difficulties that are common to many surveys, regardless of their focus. The proposers would welcome contributions from those with either academic or commercial backgrounds.

Accepted presentations:

Building a Quality Enhancement Network for a Cross-national Survey -- E. Harrison, A. Zabal
The View from the front lines – a contractor view of quality enhancement -- N. Moon, S. McHugh
Refusals in longitudinal mental health studies: causes and consequences -- J. Smit, A. Hoogendoorn, C. Hoekstra
Improving quality over 25 years of the British Social Attitudes Survey -- A. Park, M. Phillips