In the area of Survey Operations, basic and application-oriented research is carried out on various questions of data collection and survey design. Topics include the design of online and mixed-mode surveys, data linkage, use of geo and paradata, field control and interviewer effects as well as interview training.
Our research on Survey Operations
- Panel recruitment
- Sample refreshment
- Incentives and response rates
- Nonresponse
- Machine learning
- Push-to-web strategies in mixed-mode surveys
- Responsive and adaptive designs
- Performance-related motivation of interviewers
- Determinants of successful interviewer training
- Identification of counterfeits in surveys
- Determinants of Interview Effects
- Mobile Surveys
- Data Linkage
- Response behavior and social desirability
- Gummer, Tobias, Ruben Bach, Jessica Daikeler, and Stephanie Eckman. 2021. "The Relationship Between Response Probabilities and Data Quality in Grid Questions." Survey Research Methods 15 (1): 65-77. doi: https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2021.v15i1.7727.
- Cornesse, Carina, Barbara Felderer, Marina Fikel, Ulrich Krieger, and Annelies G. Blom. 2022. "Recruiting a Probability-Based Online Panel via Postal Mail: Experimental Evidence." Social Science Computer Review 40 (5): 1259 - 1284. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393211006059.
- Cibelli Hibben, Kristen, Barbara Felderer, and Frederick G. Conrad. 2020. "Respondent commitment: Applying techniques from face-to-face interviewing to online collection of employment data." International Journal of Social Research Methodology online first 1-14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1826647.
- Daikeler, Jessica. 2019. The Application of Evidence-Based Methods in Survey Methodology: Inauguraldissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Mannheim. Mannheim: Universität Mannheim .
- Schneider, Silke L., Verena Ortmanns, Roberto Briceno-Rosas, and Jessica M. E. Herzing. 2019. "Messung und Kodierung von Bildungsabschlüssen in computergestützten interkulturellen Umfragen: Eine Bilanz." Gemeinsame Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute (ASI) und der DGS-Sektion „Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung“: Empirische Sozialforschung in Zeiten der Digitalisierung – Methodische Konsequenzen neuer Technologien, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln, 2019-11-16.
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Kompetenzzentrum Datenqualität in den Sozialwissenschaften
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2023-11-15 | 2026-11-14 | Bund |
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