Program
4th September 2012
9:15 Registration
9:45 Official opening by StatCan
10:00 Nonresponse in longitudinal surveys
Facilitator: Kaminska
Lynn: Failing to locate panel sample members: minimising the risk
Müller: Improving efficiency in panel surveys with paradata
Wilhelmsen: Effects of attrition in the Norwegian Survey on statistics on income and living conditions (EU-Silc)
Coppola: Attrition rates in longitudinal household surveys: does sampling scheme matter?
11:30 Break
11:45 Other reasons for nonresponse
Facilitator: Gambino
Stoop: Not able and not available: the other reasons
Matsuo: Other (not non-contact, not refusal) types of non-response in cross-national surveys
12:20 Lunch
1:45 Making use of paradata in new ways
Facilitator: Lynn
Sinibaldi: Investigation of a new interviewer observation: interviewer assessments of response propensity
Erdman: Development of interviewer performance standards for six national surveys
Laflamme: An overview of web paradata to understand and monitor the data collection process
Loosveldt: The impact of interviewer fieldwork performance on the response process and data quality
3:10 Break
3:30 Break out groups on new types of paradata and responsive design
4:15 Presentations from break out groups
4:45 Day ends
Conference Dinner
5th September 2012
9:10 Day 2 opens
9:15 Responsive design
Facilitator: Dixon
Calinescu: Improving response in adaptive survey designs given constraints on risk of undesirable measurement profiles
Bocci: A Theoretical Framework for Adaptive Collection Designs
Cobben: Reducing non-representative response through adaptive survey design or by weighting adjustment?
Beullens: A strong case for smaller sample sizes?
10:40 Break
10:55 Correcting for nonresponse
Facilitator: Cobben
Dixon: Using contact history to adjust for nonresponse in the Current Population Survey
Kaminska: Taking into account unknown eligibility in nonresponse correction
11:40 Consent questions
Facilitator: Wilhelmsen
Lamla: Nonresponse to consent questions: the SAVE experience
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Census data
Facilitator: Beullens
James: The 2011 UK Census Non-response Link Study Plans for the UK Census
2:10 Mathieu & Verret: Canada’s National Household Survey: replacing the long form
· Background
· Nonresponse strategy
· Imputation & Weighting
· Discussion
3:30 Break
3:45 Break out groups
4:30 Presentation of results of break out groups
5:00 Day ends
Evening cruise
6th September 2012
9:30 Incentives
Facilitator: Toomse
Felderer: The influence of respondent incentives on item nonresponse in a web survey
Joye: What about incentives? A Swiss perspective
10:10 Panel on the future of incentives
10:45 Closing Discussion
Facilitator: Sinibaldi
o Thoughts on the 2012 Nonresponse Workshop
o Future plans for the workshop
11:30 Workshop closes
