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Mixed mode surveys: where will be in 5 years from now?

Some colleagues in the United Kingdom have started a half-year initiative to discuss the possibilities of conducting web surveys among …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 3 min read

Planned Missingness

I recently gave a talk at an internal seminar on planned missingness for a group of developmental psychologists. The idea behind …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 2 min read

Designing mixed-mode surveys

This weekend is the deadline for submitting a presentation proposal to this year’s conference of the European Survey Research …
Last updated on Jan 31, 2020 3 min read

Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling

In August, I organised a three-week summerschool with my colleagues in Utrecht on new features in MPLUS 7, the software we use to build …
Last updated on Jan 31, 2020 1 min read

Is panel attrition the same as nonresponse?

All of my research is focused on the methods of assembling and analysis of panel survey data. One of the primary problems of panel …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 3 min read

why access panels cannot weight elections polls accurately

There are a lot of reasons why would not want to use acces panels for predicting electoral outcomes . These are well discussed in many …
Last updated on Jul 5, 2021 3 min read

Dutch elections 2012 - poll results

The night after the election, one can conclude that all pollsters in the Netherlands did a bad job of predicting the election results. …
Last updated on Jan 31, 2020 2 min read

Electoral volatility due to different questions?

**Poll volatility ** Below, you find the summed changes in parliamentary seats over all parties in consecutive opinion polls for the …
Last updated on Jan 31, 2020 2 min read

Dependent Interviewing, and stability in opinion polls

I was re-reading one of the papers I wrote as part of my dissertation on survey data quality in panel surveys. The paper deals with the …
Last updated on Jan 31, 2020 3 min read

new homepage

23-07 I’ve changed some things around, integrating my weblog posts with a new personal homepage, where I intend to assemble …
Last updated on Jan 31, 2020 1 min read