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3Local Organiser‘s WelcomeDear Colleagues,We both are thrilled to welcome you in Lausanne for the 4th conference of the European Survey ResearchAssociation (ESRA). The number of participants exceeded all expectations and we thank you for the greatinterest to come to Lausanne for this big event. With such a large number of presentations, we are proud tooffer you a program that is of high quality, diverse, with contributions from Europe and beyond that covervarious disciplines.FORS, the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, is the local organizing institution. It has a strongfocus on methodological research as well as survey data collection and dissemination. FORS is involved in theinternational projects European Social Survey (ESS) and International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and representsSwitzerland on the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). In addition, the SwissHousehold Panel of FORS is part of the Cross National Equivalent File (CNEF). As a national centre of expertise,FORS also serves as a liaison office between Swiss and international research in the social sciences.We received a lot of help with the preparation for this big event. First of all, we are grateful to the Universityof Lausanne for offering their beautiful lakeside facilities as a location for the conference, and for the supportwith all the logistics we received from Unibat and Unicom. From ESRA we thank, of course, the conferencechair Patrick Sturgis and Daniel Oberski for all their help with the website and ESRA database. We are very gratefulto Kaisa Puustinen (University of Southampton), who was willing to organize the exhibition and managethe all other sponsoring activities. We extend our thanks also to Gosia Turner (University of Southampton) forher help with correspondence and registration.From FORS we are much obliged to Denise Bloch for her assistance with all administrative matters in Lausanne,Corine Bolle for her help with financial issues, and Isabelle Renschler for her advice on public relations.We thank Stephanie Kernich (University of Zurich) for her work on the layout of the program book.Finally, we thank the Swiss National Science Foundation, the city of Lausanne and the canton of Vaud for theirfinancial support to this edition of the ESRA conference. Of course we are also grateful for the contributionsof all our sponsers.We hope that you will enjoy the conference and the unique sites this city and region have to offer!Marieke Voorpostel and Kathrin KissauThe local organisers from FORS