Survey Operations
Operations is about making decisions for the organization and implementation of survey projects that have a significant impact on the quality of the data collected. The individual articles provide an overview of relevant methodological aspects of surveys in different data collection modes, for fieldwork and in intercultural comparisons.
Modes of Data Collection | Web Surveys |
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| Face-to-Face Surveys |
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| Mail Surveys |
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| Mixed-Device and Mobile Web Surveys |
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Mixed-Mode Surveys |
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| Data Collection and Fieldwork | Incentives |
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| Invitation Letter |
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| Tender and Documentation | Adaptation of the AAPOR Final Disposition Codes for the German Survey Contex |
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| Invitation to Tender |
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| Panel Surveys | Why Panel Surveys? |
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| Intercultural Surveys | Measurement Instruments in Cross-National Surveys |
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| Documenting Measurement Instruments or the Social and Behavioral Sciences |
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| Standardisation and Harmonisation of Socio-demographic Variables |
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| The Conceptualisation, Measurement, and Coding of Education in German and Cross-National Surveys |
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| Measurement of Migrants's Educational Attainment |
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| Interviewer Effects and Training | Interviewer-Skills and Training |
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| A General Interviewer Training Curriculum for Computer Assisted Personal Interviews (GIT-CAPI) |
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| Interviewer-Effects in Standardized Surveys |
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| Para Data and Data Linkage | Data-Linking - Linking Survey Data with Geospatial, Social Media, and Sensor Data |
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| Informing about Web Paradata Collection and Use |
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| Web-Paradata in Survey Research |
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