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2nd International Conference of the German Priority Programme on Survey Methodology (PPSM) – “Advancing Survey Methods”

Registration for the 2nd International Conference of the German Priority Programme on Survey Methodology (PPSM) is now open. The Conference is targeted on recent advancements of methods developed for surveys to be conducted over the Internet, over the phone, by face-to-face interviews or mail questionnaires. The conference will take place in Bremen, Germany, on November 17th and 18th, 2011. For more information on the Conference and the registration procedure, visit the following link.

Job openings (several): Representatives from SESRI at ESRA conference in Lausanne

The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI; http://www.qu.edu.qa/sesri/) at Qatar University is experiencing significant growth and has several full-time survey research positions they are hiring for in Doha, Qatar. Representatives from SESRI will be at the ESRA conference in Lausanne. Persons who might be interested in meeting with one or more of them about the openings should email their CV/resume to me (David Howell, dahowell@umich.edu), either before or during the conference. All positions include a competitive tax-free salary, furnished accommodation, annual round trip air tickets for the employee and dependents, an educational allowance for the employee’s children, and annual leave. For more information please see the following .pdf.

Job opening at JPSM, UMD

The Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) seeks applications for an open rank faculty appointment from persons with research interests in survey statistics or survey methodology to start in Fall 2011. The JPSM is a graduate degree program teaching state-of-the-art principles and practices in the design, conduct, analysis and evaluation of sample surveys. The JPSM is a consortium of the University of Maryland, University of Michigan, Westat and federal statistical agencies.

Please apply on The University of Maryland job website: https://jobs.umd.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp

The University of Maryland is an EEO/AA Employer. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. Detailed information concerning JPSM and its programs can be found on the web at www.jpsm.org.

Call for Papers: Special Public Opinion Quarterly Issue on Measurement

Public Opinion Quarterly seeks submissions for a 2012 special issue of the journal devoted to measurement. The deadline for manuscript submissions is December 31, 2011. For more information on the potential topics and on the submission process, visit the journal’s website at http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/.

Studentships in Survey Methodology opportunities – University of Essex

The Department of Sociology at the University of Essex invites applications for fully-funded Masters and PhD studentships for 2011 entry. Studentships are open to all EU and UK citizens. Applications in all topic areas are possible but we are particularly interested in funding projects in Quantitative Sociology or Survey Methodology. Programmes are either for four years, including a one-year Masters, or three years, for applicants who already have research methods training at postgraduate level. Students can choose from several Masters degrees, leading on to a PhD based in the Department of Sociology (Quantitative Sociology) or ISER (Survey Methodology). Applications should be submitted by 28 April at the latest. For more information, visit the following link.

Public Opinion Quarterly – special issue on Total Survey Error

Have you seen the latest special issue from Public Opinion Quarterly? Edited by Paul P. Biemer and Lars Lyberg, this special issue focuses on total survey error. Read the articles for free at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4139/5. Happy reading!

WAPOR 64th Annual Conference – Public Opinion and the Internet

The World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) will hold its 64th annual Conference on September 21-23, 2011 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The theme of this conference emphasizes how the Internet provides challenges and opportunities for public opinion scholars and how the internet is changing (the study of) public opinion. The deadline for abstract submission is March 1, 2011. For more information on the Conference and the call for papers, visit the following link.

Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques – Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques is a teaching program of the Survey Research Center, at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. The mission of the Summer Institute is to provide rigorous and high quality graduate training in all phases of survey research. The program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design, implementation, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948, and has offered such courses every summer since. Graduate-level courses through the Program in Survey Methodology will be offered in two consecutive four-week sessions, from June 6 through July 1, and from July 5 through July 29. There are a number of one and two week courses, as well, that may be elected in each session. For more information about our program please visit our website at http://si.isr.umich.edu/.

International Conference on Methods for Surveying and Enumerating Hard-to-Reach Populations (H2R 2012)

H2R 2012 will take place on October 31 – November 3, 2012 at the Marriott Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. The conference will bring together survey methodologists, sociologists, statisticians, demographers, ethnographers, policy analysts and other professionals from around the world to present new and innovative concepts and techniques for surveying hard to reach populations. The conference will address both the statistical and survey design aspects of including hard to reach groups.

The dates for the call for submissions are the following: February 1-March 31 2011: Invited Call for Submissions; April 1-May 31 2011: Contributed Call for Submissions. For further information contact: H2R2012@amstat.org or visit the Conference’s website at: http://www.amstat.org/meetings/h2r/2012/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.

2011 ASA Spring Methodology Conference

The 2011 ASA Spring Methodology Conference will take place on May 18-20, 2011 at Tilburg University, in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The Conference is organized in Europe by the Department of Methodology and Statistics of Tilburg University, sponsored by the American Sociological Association Methodology Section and supported by the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

The call for papers is now open (see details here). The deadline for registration and paper submission is April 1, 2011. For complete information, visit the Conference’s website at: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/asa/.

CASS short course programme for 2010/11

CASS (Courses in Applied Social Surveys) is a programme of short courses covering topics in survey design, data collection and data analysis methods. Courses are aimed at academic social scientists and applied researchers in government, market research and the independent and voluntary sectors. CASS is part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods.

Teaching is interactive and responsive to course participants’ needs. All courses include practical sessions or computer workshops to enable participants to put the learned methods into practice.

For more information visit the following website: www.southampton.ac.uk/cass.

Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies 1971-2006: Cumulative data-set and documentation

The Department of Political Science and Research Methods, University of Twente, in cooperation with DANS, has published a cumulative data-set that incorporates the Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies (DPES) conducted between 1971 and 2006.

The DPES 1971-2006 cumulative data-set provides directly accessible information on change and stability in electoral behavior and political orientations in the Netherlands. The data comprise the more frequently asked questions of these Dutch Parliamentary Election Studies.

DPES data and documentation can also be searched through, browsed, analyzed and downloaded via the DANS EASY online analysis tool, accessible at: http://nesstar.dans.knaw.nl/webview/. Additional information about the DPES series can be found on http://www.dpes.nl.

New release of ESS1-ESS4

New editions of data for ESS Rounds 1 to 4 are now available from the ESS Data Web Site, http://ess.nsd.uib.no

In the new edition of ESS4, data from Ireland and Lithuania have been added. In addition, the cumulative datafile for ESS1-4 has been released. The cumulative data are available from a new tool, the ESS Cumulative Data Wizard, where users can customise their own subsets of data in different formats. For ESS rounds 1 to 4 there has been an upgrade of the harmonised variables for highest level of education. For further information please see the document Education Upgrade ESS1-4 available from the ESS Data download pages.