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The ASA Spring Methodology Conference
Organized in Europe by the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg
University, the Netherlands.
SESSION: PPSM Session B: Measurement Techniques, Online Research
and the Role of the Interviewer
SUMMARY: The German Priority Programme on Survey Methodology (PPSM)
started on January 2008. It consists of a total of 16 projects and is still running
(see www.survey-methodology.de). The present session aims at reporting on
work from PPSM projects that address research questions related to
measurement techniques for asking sensitive questions (Testing a new
alternative to the Randomized Response Technique) and the factorial survey
design and interviewer effects (Just gross earnings: Why respondents prefer
lower inequalities in earnings while an interviewer is sitting next to them). The
role of the interviewer is also addressed related to interviewer effects in the
recruitment of a probability based access panel as well as related to an indicator
based method for ex-post identification of falsifications in survey data. Finally,
the session provides an international comparison of the availability of
technologies for online surveys.
PRESENTERS:
Marc Höglinger (or Ben Jann) marc.hoeglinger@soz.gess.ethz.ch
ETH Zurich and University of Bern
Stefan Liebig stefan.liebig@uni-bielefeld.de
University of Bielefeld
Lars Kaczmirek lars kaczmirek@gesis org
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Nina Storfinger nina.storfinger@zeu.uni.giessen.de
University of Giesen
Uwe Engel (chair of the session) uengel@empas.uni-bremen.de
Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Bremen