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The traditional web survey is dead

Why we should throw out most of what we know on how to visually design web surveys In 2000, web surveys looked like postal surveys …
Last updated on Jan 31, 2020 3 min read

Retrospective reporting

Back after a long pause. Panel surveys traditionally interview respondents at regular intervals, for example monthly or yearly. This …
Last updated on Jan 31, 2020 4 min read

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