This website supports activities of  the annual Household Survey Nonresponse Workshop. It serves only to the participants of the workshop. Registered participants have access to the archives of all years.
 

Brief history

The International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse was founded in 1990 in Stockholm by Professor Robert Groves, Professor Lars Lyberg, and Dr. Bob Barnes.

Since then the Workshop has been hosted by different countries each year: Washington, DC, USA, 1991; Voorburg, The Netherlands, 1992; Bath, England, 1993; Ottawa, Canada, 1994; Helsinki, Finland, 1995; Rome, Italy, 1996; Mannheim, Germany, 1997; Bled, Slovenia, 1998; Budapest.

In 1999 the Workshop was replaced by a large, international conference on Nonresponse, held in Portland, Oregon. The idea to organize the conference was initiated at the 1995 Workshop. A monograph was published after the conference edited by Groves, R., Dillman, D. A., Eltinge, J. L., and Little, R. J. A. Survey Nonresponse (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics).

The recent location of conference were, Budapest, Hungary, 2000; Oslo, Norway, 2001, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002; Leuven, Belgium, 2003; Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2004; Tällberg, Sweden, 2005; Omaha, Nebraska, 2006; Southampton, United Kingdom, 2007; Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2008; Lausanne, Switzerland, 2009. Germany, Nürnberg, 2010.

The registered users have full access to the materials of past workshops.

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Mission

The focus of the Workshop is nonresponse in household surveys, but it accepts also other aspects (business surveys).

The main goal of the Workshop is to bring "adjusters" and "reducers" together and to initiate cooperation on different projects.

Most of the Workshop participants are actively involved in nonresponse research and the Workshop increases the exchange of ideas. Examples of cooperation originated at the workshop are overviews of nonresponse rates in different countries, studies of compliance principles, and studies of interviewer strategies.