Program
Program August 26 (docx) - final
4th September 2013
9:00 Registration
9:30 Official opening by NatCen Social Research
9:45 Mixed Modes
Facilitator: Jack Gambino
Payne: Understanding how the use of multi-mode affects response: building a foundation for further investigation
Collins: The role of mode in respondents’ decisions about participation in the fifth wave of Understanding Society’s Innovation Panel: findings from a qualitative follow up study
Joye: Mixing modes: who are the respondents?
11:00 Break
11:15 Nonresponse on Understanding Society
Facilitator: Nancy Bates
Boreham: Targeting households to issue to web to maximize web full household response
Cernat: The role of email addresses and email contact in encouraging CAWI response in a mixed mode design
Schneider: Non-contact and refusal among immigrants: wave 2 attrition in Understanding Society
12:30 Lunch
1:45 Revisiting Initially Unproductive Cases
Facilitator: Ineke Stoop
Phelps: The effectiveness of a second reissue stage at a later date- evidence from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles
Beullens: The interviewer’s memory
2:35 Introduce the Poster Session
2:40 Poster Session (with break)
Blom/ Bossert: Nonresponse bias in the German Internet Panel: the representativeness of offline households
Calderwood: Experiments to improve response rates among likely refusers: does assigning better interviewers and paying interviewer incentives work?
Cullinane: How to encourage a face-to-face household panel to go online? Timing isn’t everything but money talks!
Felderer: The effect of survey mode on nonresponse and measurement
error bias: a validation study
Lugtig: Differences in measurement error between loyal, unloyal and attriting respondents in a panel survey
Schouten: Evaluating not-missing-at-random nonresponse using non-identical twin surveys
Taylor: Better communication with participants
3:30 Addressing Nonresponse with Commercial and Auxiliary Data
Facilitator: Hideko Matsuo
Hussey: Non-response weighting: is it worth the effort?
Blohm: The use of microgeographic data to study nonresponse in the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) 2012 – a replication and extension of a previous analysis with 2010 data
Peytchev: Commercial data for nonresponse bias adjustment: an empirical evaluation
Langsrud: Imputing for nonresponse in the Norwegian Labour Force Survey by various approaches
5:10 Day 1 ends
6:30 Social Event, organized by NatCen
7:30 Workshop Dinner
5th September 2013
9:00 Day 2 opens
9:10 New Forms of Paradata
Facilitator: Chandra Erdman
Sinibaldi: Using interviewer ratings of likelihood to respond to improve propensity models
Bates: Accuracy of interviewer observations: evaluating between-interviewer agreement in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
10:00 Studying Nonresponse using Census Data
Facilitator: Gerry Nicolaas
Ashworth: ONS’ Census Non-response Link Study
10:25 Break
10:45 Panel Discussion with Break-out Groups
Toomse-Smith: The role of interviewer motivation in achieving higher response rates
12:15 Lunch
1:45 Improving European Surveys
Facilitator: Peter Lugitg
Matsuo: Reflection on past rounds of the European Social Survey: revisiting non-response in a longitudinal perspective
Goni: More auxiliary information to gain insight into the response in Eustat
Stoop: Targeted response efforts in a cross-national survey
3:00 Break
3:15 Adaptive Design
Facilitator: Annelies Blom
Laflamme: Responsive Collection Design (RCD) framework for multi-mode surveys
Erdman: An analysis of adaptive sampling procedures in the National Health Interview Survey
Schouten: Does balancing survey response reduce nonresponse bais?
4:30 Day 2 ends
6:00 Panel Debate on Nonresponse, organized by NatCen
Are you sure you have a good quality sample? Moving beyond the response rates
6th September 2013
9:00 Day 3 opens
Summary and feedback from the Panel Debate
9:30 Sequence Analysis
Facilitator: Koen Beullens
Maslovskaya & Durrant: Investigating call record data using sequence analysis: an example using the UK Understanding Society Survey
Hanly: Generating nonresponse adjustment variables using sequence analysis of call record data
10:30 Break
10:45 Incentives
Facilitator: Barbara Felderer
Gambino: The use of incentives for Statistics Canada’s household surveys
11:10 Discussion Groups
11:50 Discussion Group Reports
12:10 Lunch
1:30 Internet Panels
Facilitator: Mari Toomse-Smith
Blom: Nonresponse and attrition processes in the German Internet Panel: an overview
Bossert: Reducing nonresponse by optimizing the time of email invitation to an internet panel survey
2:20 Closing Discussion
Facilitator: Jennifer Sinibaldi
2:45 Workshop closes
