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Adaptive designs: 4 ways to improve panel surveys

This is a follow-up on why I think panel surveys need to adapt their data collection strategies to target individual respondents . Let …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 4 min read

why panel surveys need to go 'adaptive'

Last week, I gave a talk at Statistics Netherlands (slides here ) about panel attrition. Initial and nonresponse and dropout from panel …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 3 min read

Satisficing in mobile web surveys. Device-effect or selection effect?

Last week, I wrote about the fact that respondents in panel surveys are now using tablets and smartphones to complete web surveys . We …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 3 min read

Which devices do respondents use over the course of a panel study?

Vera Toepoel and I have been writing a few articles over the last two years about how survey respondents are taking up tablet computers …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 2 min read

Can you push web survey respondents to complete questionnaires on their mobile phones?

I am back from some great holidays, and am revisiting some of the research I did over the last 2 years. Back then, I would have not …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 2 min read

AAPOR 2014

Big data and new technologies to do survey research. These were in my view the two themes of the 2014 AAPOR conference . The conference …
Last updated on Jan 31, 2020 3 min read

Are item-missings related to later attrition?

A follow up on last month’s post . Respondents do seem to be less compliant in the waves before they drop out from a panel …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 2 min read

Do respondents become sloppy before attrition?

I am working on a paper that aims to link measurement errors to attrition error in a panel survey. For this, I am using the British …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 3 min read

Personality predicts the likelihood and process of attrition in a panel survey

Studies into the correlates of nonresponse often have to rely on socio-demographic variables to study whether respondents and …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 3 min read

Longitudinal interview outcome data reduction: Latent Class and Sequence analyses

Frauke Kreuter once commented on a presentation I gave that I should really be looking at sequence analysis for studying attrition in …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 3 min read