Survey Operations

Operations is about making decisions for the organization and implementation of survey projects that have a significant impact on the quality of the data collected. The individual articles provide an overview of relevant methodological aspects of surveys in different data collection modes, for fieldwork and in intercultural comparisons.

Modes of Data Collection	Web Surveys (43 kB) Documentation of Online Surveys (378 kB) Face-to-Face Surveys (50 kB) Documentation of Face-to-Face Surveys (406 kB) Postal Surveys (533 kB) Documentation of Mail Data Collection (347 kB) Mixed-Device and Mobile Web Surveys (335 kB) Mixed-Mode Surveys (248 kB)/ Presentation (339 kB)
Data Collection and Fieldwork	Incentives (46 kB) Invitation Letter (0.98 MB)(german) / Presentation (384 kB) (german)
Tender and Documentation	Adaptation of the AAPOR Final Disposition Codes for the German Survey Context (708 kB) / Presentation (619 kB) Invitation to Tender (697 kB) (german)
Panel Surveys	Why Panel Surveys? (46 kB)
Intercultural Surveys	Measurement Instruments in Cross-National Surveys (393 kB) Documenting Measurement Instruments for the Social and Behavioral Sciences (349 kB) Standardisation and Harmonisation of Socio-demographic Variables (78 kB) Measurement of Education in German and Cross-national Surveys (1.42 MB) (german)
Interviewer Effects and Training	Interviewer-Skills and Training (72 kB) A General Interviewer Training Curriculum for ComputerAssisted Personal Interviews (GIT-CAPI) (66 kB)/ Presentation (396 kB) GIT-CAPI Curriculum (396 kB) Interviewer-Effects in standardized Surveys (461 kB)
Para Data and Data Linkage	Data-Linking - Linking Survey Data with Geospatial, Social Media and Sensor Data (1.60 MB) Informing about Web Paradata Collection and Use (416 kB) Web-Paradata in Survey Research (844 kB)

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