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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

A great lecturer, and the contextuality of nonresponse

I love watching videos from Richard Feynman on Youtube. Apart from being entertaining, Feynman in the video below does explain quite …
Last updated on Jan 31, 2020 1 min read

My prayers on peer-reviewed datasets are instantly answered

Three weeks ago, I wrote about the fact that I think that it would be great if we could have a journal on peer-reviewed datasets (along …
Last updated on Jan 31, 2020 1 min read