Program
| Day 1 August 31 | |
| 9:00 | Registration |
| 9:15 | Official Opening by Statistics Norway |
| 9:30 | Field Tests and Experiments to Improve Response Rates, Part I, digital communication |
| Facilitator: Matt Jonas | |
| (Reminder of format: 5 min + 20 min discussion) | |
| Walejko: A new contact strategy: Targeted advertising for address- based samples | |
| Lagerstrøm et al: Transition from postal advance letters to digital communication – impact on response behavior and costs | |
| Bates & Virgile: Digital advertising during Census 2015: impact on hard-to-survey populations | |
| 10:45 | Break |
| 11:05 | Nonresponse bias |
| Facilitator: Gerrit Müller | |
| Moore et al: Using linked census data to estimate survey-nonresponse biases | |
| Blohm & Koch: Regularities in changes of sample composition during the data collection period. The case of the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) | |
| Beullens & Loosveldt: Reducing the differences between respondents and nonrespondents or increasing the response rate? What is the best order to reduce nonresponse bias? | |
| 12:20 | Lunch |
| 13:20 | Panel: Non-response, data protection and research ethics |
| Facilitator: Ineke Stoop | |
| Stoop: Introduction | |
| Joye: Survey climate | |
| Rød: Legal and ethical issues when collecting and using information on nonrespondents | |
| Butt: Practicalities in the ADD response project | |
| Jensen: refusal conversion and collecting information on non-respondents | |
| 14:45 | Break |
| 15:05 | Attrition |
| Facilitator: Michael Blohm | |
| Ariyibi (for Matthew Greenaway and Andrea Lacey): Investigating attrition on the UK Labour Force Survey. | |
| Müller et al: A statistical framework for the fade-away of initial nonresponse bias in panel surveys. | |
| De Leeuw et al: Survey attitude, Nonresponse and attrition in a probability based online panel. | |
| 16:20 | Miscellaneous |
| Facilitator: Wojciech Jablonski | |
| Wuyts & Loosveldt: Workload-related interviewer characteristics and unit nonresponse in ESS Belgium. | |
| Furubljlelke et al: Handling incoming calls and messages from respondent in order to streamline the data collection and provide good service. | |
| 17:10 | End of day 1 |
| 9:00 | Day 2 September 1 |
| Sampling and Weighting | |
| Facilitator: Joop Hox | |
| Helmschrott: The effects of weighting on secondary outcomes in PIAAC Germany | |
| Laaksonen: Anticipation of unit nonresponse or not in the sampling design | |
| 9:45 | Adaptive Survey Design, Part I |
| Facilitator: Joop Hox | |
| Cornesse & Bosnjak: the association between survey design and representativeness: a meta-analysis of common approaches. | |
| Mushkudiani et al : A Bayesian analysis of survey design parameters | |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:55 | Adaptive Survey Design, Part II |
| Facilitator: Bengt Lagerstrøm | |
| Scherpenzeel et al: Can we use the relationship between income, item nonresponse an panel attrition in an adaptive fieldwork design? A study in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE | |
| Johansson: Noncontacts in the Swedish Labour Force Survey – impact on survey quality, costs and survey operations. | |
| 11:40 | Field Tests and Experiments to Improve Response Rates, Part II: |
| Facilitator: Koen Beullens | |
| Mohay: Early results of the PIAAC field test | |
| Lagerstrøm: data collection strategies in the EU-SILC: more for less? | |
| 12:25 | Lunch |
| 13:25 | Actions, Interactions, and Interviewer Training: Suggestions from an Interactional Model of the Recruitment Call |
| Keynote Speech by Dr. Nora Cate Schaeffer | |
| with discussion | |
| 14:10 | Special Session: Interviewer Behaviour |
| Facilitator: Annemieke Luiten | |
| Special Session, Part I | |
| Blom: Comparing interviewer characteristics and explaining interviewer effect on nonresponse across four German face-to-face data collections | |
| Pollien: Interviewer strategies; influence on contact and cooperation. | |
| 15:00 | Break |
| 15:25 | Special Session, Part II |
| Facilitator: Dominique Joye | |
| Bristle: Reading Fast, Reading Slow: Interviewer Behavior and the Influence on Survey Outcomes |
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| Jablonski: Interviewers in computer assisted telephone interviews: standardization controversy. | |
| Burgers: E-learning for starting interviewers: effects on efficiency and interviewer performance. | |
| Friedel: Item nonresponse and interviewer effects on asset questions in SHARE | |
| 17:05 | Day 2 ends |
| Dinner | |
| 9:00 | Day 3 September 2 |
| Field Tests and Experiments to Improve Response Rates, Part III: incentives | |
| Facilitator: Nancy Bates | |
| Luiten: Incentives in official statistics: effects on response, representativeness and target variables. | |
| Jonas: Can interviewers target incentives effectively | |
| Thorsteinsdottir: Incentives in the Icelandic HBS | |
| 9:20 | Discussion on improving response rates, Part III |
| 10:00 | Field Tests and Experiments to Improve Response Rates, Part IV |
| Facilitator: François Laflamme | |
| Gaudet: Strategies to handle non-response in the Canadian Community Health Survey: Past, present and future. | |
| Lagerstrøm et al: Strategies to get response online | |
| 10:40 | Break |
| 11:00 | Miscelaneous II |
| Facilitator: Annette Scherpenzeel | |
| Loosveldt and Vercruyssen: Validating Interviewer-observed paradata with auxiliary data from Google Street View | |
| Laflamme: Framework to assess the 'maximum'expected response rate for different designs and conditions | |
| Luiten et al: First results of the International Questionnaire on Nonresponse | |
| 12:05 | Closing Discussion |
| Facilitator: Annemieke Luiten | |
| 12:35 | Workshop ends |
