Panel Survey Methodology Workshop 2024 Utrecht Preliminary programme

(note: may be subject to changes)

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Utrecht University

room: van Lief en Eggink

Heidelberglaan 8

Utrecht, the Netherlands

Wednesday 10th July

5:00-6:30 pm    Welcome reception. Location: Anne & Max Domstraat (note, there are multiple locations of this restaurant in Utrecht). address: Domstraat4, 3512 JB Utrecht

Thursday 11th July

8:00 AM       Registration. Location: van Lier en Egginkzaal, Heidelberglaan 8 

8:45 AM       Welcome and opening remarks

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM  Session 1: Interviewers 

Christian Haag, Martyna Flis, and Jutta von Maurice (Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (Lifbi)): High performer, inaccurate interviewer, or something in between: A focus on fieldwork personnel

Michael Bergmann, Magdalena Quezada (presenting), and Šime Smolić (Munich Research Institute for the Economics of Aging and SHARE Analyses (MEA-SHARE) and SHARE BERLIN Institute (SBI); University of Zagreb – Faculty of Economics and Business): Effects of interviewer continuity on data quality in a panel survey of older respondents

Silvia Schwanhäuser, Jonas Beste, Lukas Olbrich, and Joseph Sakshaug (Institute for Employment Research, Germany): Making a Long Story Short: Identifying Partial Interviewer Falsification in Panel Surveys

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM    Morning break

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM   Session 2:  Incentives

Marieke Voorpostel andOliver Lipps (Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS)): Reducing incentives among longtime respondents in the Swiss Household Panel: An experiment

Matt Brown, Tugba Adali, Stella Fleetwood, Kirsty Burston, Kirsty Macleod, and Alessandra Gaia (presenting author) (Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University College London; Ipsos): Experimental evidence on the use of targeted incentives and non-response conversion strategies to boost response and maximise representativeness in the Next Steps Age 32 survey

#26 Pablo Cabrera-Álvarez and Peter Lynn (ISER, University of Essex): Long-term effects of incentives in longitudinal surveys

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM  Lunch (included)

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM    Session 3: Contact/invitation modes

Agnieszka Walczak de Queiroz (University of Luxembourg): Reaching out to panel survey respondents via LinkedIn – an effective strategy?

Georg-Christoph Haas, Benjamin Baisch, Mark Trappmann, and Jonas Weik (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany): Using panelists self-stated motivations to craft efficient targeted email invitations to an online probability panel

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM    Session 4: Additional tasks & Informed Consent

Jasmine Mitchell and Annette Jäckle (ISER, University of Essex): How do household panel members react to multiple requests for different types of additional data over time?

Jim Vine, Annette Jäckle, Jon Burton, and Mick Couper (ISER, University of Essex; University of Michigan): Getting consent to survey in new ways: evidence from experiments about questions by SMS in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM    Afternoon break with refreshments

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM    Session 5: Multi-Mode Surveys 

Patrick Lazarevič and Marc Plate (Statistics Austria): The Tailored Mode-Design. Predicting the Preferred Data Collection Mode Using Administrative Data to Increase Response in a Longitudinal Household Panel Survey

Annette Scherpenzeel and Emiel Bottenheft (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (Nivel)): Online panel participation in an ageing society: Insights from the Dutch National Panel for the Chronically Ill and Disabled (NPCD)

Carina Cornesse, Markus Grabka, and Sabine Zinn (German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)): Video-interviewing as part of a multi-mode design in the SOEP-Innovation Sample: Research agenda, experimental setup, and initial results

7:00 PM –     Workshop dinner at restaurant De Rechtbank

address: Korte Nieuwstraat 14, 3512 NM Utrecht (see map)

Friday, 12th July

 Location: van Lier en Egginkzaal, Heidelberglaan 8 

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM  Session 6: Mode mixes and mode switches when surveying youth 

Jonathan Burton and Violetta Parutis (ISER, University of Essex): Why don’t you just put it online: The challenges of youth self-completion surveys in a mixed mode survey.

Becky Hamlyn, Keith Bolling, Luke Taylor, Leo Brownstein, Jon Kennett, Tugba Adali (presenting), Jake Anders, Lisa Calderwood, Xin Shao, and Carl Cullinane (Verian; UCL; Sutton Trust): Using push-to-web in a new youth cohort study in England: experiences of baseline wave recruitment and second wave retention on the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities study (COSMO)

Matt Brown, Emla Fitzsimons, Lucy Haselden, Larissa Pople, Michaela Sedovic,Nicholas Gilby, Kirsty Burston, and Emma Rimmington (Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University College London): To switch, or not to switch? Evidencing the differences between face-to-face (F2F) and sequential mixed mode (web>F2F) to inform the mode decision on the UK Millennium Cohort Study Age 23 Survey

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM    Morning break

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM    Session 7: Mode effects

Narayan Sastry and Katherine McGonagle (ISR, University of Michigan): Experimental Assessment of Web versus Telephone Mode Effects on Data Quality and Interview Responses: Results from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Heather M. Schroeder, Mary Beth Ofstedal, and Brady T. West (ISR, University of Michigan): Assessing the heterogeneity of mode effects on data quality and response distributions across socio-demographic subgroups in a mixed-mode panel study

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM  Session 8: Lunch and Poster Session

  • Manuela Schmidt and Jörg Blasius (University of Bonn): Drawing a refreshment sample in the Cologne Dwelling Panel
  • Jason Fields and Neil Bennett (U.S. Census Bureau):  SIPP Seamless. Developing an ISR push multi-mode framework for the Survey of Income and Program Participation
  • Lee Bentley, Klea Ramaj, Tara Poole, and Gary Pollock (Manchester Metropolitan University): Informed Consent for Data Linkage in Europe: Mapping Policies and Practices in the Context of a Prospective Birth Cohort Study
  • Tobias Rettig and Anne Balz (University of Mannheim): Long term attrition and sample composition over time: 11 years of the German Internet Panel
  • Joachim Piepenburg (GESIS): Grid Questions in Self-Administered Online Surveys: An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Grid Question Layout Variations on Data Quality and Response Burden
  • Jessica Faul, Gary Hein, and David Weir (Survey Research Center, University of Michigan): Strategies to improve ancillary data collection when coordinating with an external research collaborator
  • Colter Mitchell, Edward Huntley, Noreen Goldman, Daniel Notterman, Luke Hyde, and Christopher onk (ISR, University of Michigan): Using Representative Longitudinal Panel Studies to Improve the Generalizability of High Intensity Data Collections
  • Felix Süttmann and Sabine Zinn (German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)): Enhancing Panel Survey Efficiency through Predictive Mode Preference Analysis
  • Vasja Vehovar, Gregor Čehovin, Andreja Praček, and Luka Štrlekar (University of Ljubljana): Evaluation of Probability-Based Web Panels: Integrated Cost-Error Perspective
  • Fabienne Kraemer, Peter Lugtig, Bella Struminskaya, Henning Silber, Matthias Sand, Michael Bosnjak, and Bernd Weiß (GESIS): Monitoring Attitudes Over Time – Real change or the result of repeated interviewing

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM   Session 9: Representativeness

Nicole Watson (University of Melbourne): Trialling a new way to add an immigrant top-up sample to the HILDA Survey

Jason Fields (US Census Bureau): The Census Household Panel Survey: Leveraging the Census Demographic Frame and Administrative Data for Sampling and Adjustment.

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM   Short break

2:45 PM – 4:15 PM   Session 10: Attrition/nonresponse

Ben Edwards and Intifar Chowdhury (Australian National University; Flinders University): Using machine learning to identify qualitative predictors of longitudinal survey attrition: Do qualitative responses predict longitudinal survey attrition above demographic factors in a national youth cohort study?

Isabel van den Heuvel, Joris Mulder, Seyit Höcük, Zhuozhao Zhan, and Edwin van den Heuvel (Centerdata, Tilburg University): Predicting Attrition of LISS Panel Members using Machine Learning and Response Behavior Data

Camilla Salvatore, Peter Lugtig, and Bella Struminskaya (Utrecht University): The Impact of Life Events on Youth Nonresponse in the Understanding Society Survey

4.15 PM -5:00 PM     Closing discussion