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122 THURSDAY 21 JULY3.5.3 Is it what you say, or how you say it? Exploring the effects of email messages for online panel surveysZ. Fazekas 1 , M. T. Wall 2 , A. Krouwel 21 Department of Methods in the Social Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria; 2 Kieskompas, NetherlandsVariaon in levels of survey parcipaon and in the quality of individual responses, as well as the problem ofarion in panel studies are ongoing core concerns for all survey researchers. Various reward and incenvestructures are employed in order to maximise response rates and response quality. One component of thisstructure is the content and tone of covering leers or emails that ask respondents to parcipate (or, in somecases to connue to parcipate) in surveys. However, there is lile evidence of a systemac approach to tesngthe effects of formulaon, tone, and content of the messages that accompany survey requests on responsepropensity and response quality in the exisng literature. We intend to fill this gap using a quasi-experimentalresearch design in which 14,000 respondents to an online survey undertaken by Kieskompas...3.5.4 Using respondent incenves in the German General Social Survey 2010: Are they an effecve meansto achieve a more balanced sample?M. Blohm 1 , A. Koch 11 GESIS - Leibniz Instute for the Social Sciences, GermanyLike many other surveys the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) has been facing an increase in nonresponsein the past years. Between 1994 and 2008, e.g., the response rate has decreased from 54 % in 1994 to40 % in 2008. Against this background, in ALLBUS 2010 an experiment was mounted to invesgate whether ornot the provision of a condional respondent incenve (0 EUR, 10 EUR, 20 EUR) might help to stop this trend.3.6 Reporng cognive interview studies using the Cognive Interviewing ReportingFramework (CIRF): praccal examplesTo be held on July 21, 2011 from: 09:00 to 10:30, in room 303.Coordinated by:• Hennie R. Boeije - University of Utrecht, Netherlands• Gordon Willis - Naonal Instutes of Health (NIH), United States3.6.1 Using the CIRF to Report on a Dutch Pre-Test of a European Health Survey QuesonnaireV. Meertens 1 , R. Vis 11 Stascs Netherlands (CBS), NetherlandsUsing the CIRF to Report on a Dutch Pre-Test of a European Health Survey QuesonnaireVivian Meertens and Rachel Vis-VisschersDivision of Methodology and Quality, Stascs NetherlandsAbstract for ESRA 2011Session: Reporng cognive interview studies using the Cognive Interviewing Reporng Framework (CIRF):praccal examples.3.6.2 Using the CIRF to report on a mixed-method validaon study of a psychological scaleJ. Padilla 1 , I. Benítez 1 , M. Casllo 11 University of Granada, SpainThere is a growing interest in performing cognive interviewing to get validity evidence of psychological scales.Psychologists have tradionally conducted validaon studies using psychometrics. Therefore, they may havedifficulty reporng cognive interviewing findings and combining them with quantave results. The aim of