GESIS examines the intercultural comparability of methods and instruments within the three areas Survey Statistics, Survey Instruments and Survey Operations. Furthermore we conduct cross-cultural and cross-national research within international research networks such as the European Social Survey, the International Social Survey Programme and its working groups on methods and questionnaire development as well as in PIAAC.
Exemplary research topics are:
- Cross-cultural comparability of sampling designs
- Translation and adaptation of measurement instruments
- Testing of measurement invariance
- Cognitive pretesting in cross-cultural surveys
- Blohm, Michael, and Achim Koch. 2011. "Using respondent incentives in a national face-to-face survey (ALLBUS 2010): Effects on outcome rates, sample composition, and fieldwork efforts." 4th Conference of the European Survey Research Association.
- Linne, Monika, Evelyn Brislinger, and Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen. 2011. "Benefits of structured DDI metadata across the data lifecycle: the STARDAT project at the GESIS Data Archive." ESRA 2011: 4th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Lausanne. http://surveymethodology.eu/media/files/ESRA_Conference_2011_Programme_Book_1.pdf.
- Braun, Michael, Dorothée Behr, Wolfgang Bandilla, and Lars Kaczmirek. 2011. "Implementing probing in international web surveys: the case of civil disobedience." Priority Programme on Survey Methodology Workshop.
- Schaurer, Ines, Bella Struminskaya, Lars Kaczmirek, and Wolfgang Bandilla. 2011. "Asking sensitive questions in a recruitment interview for an online panel: the income question." GOR 11 : General Online Research Conference.
- Struminskaya, Bella, Ines Schaurer, Wolfgang Bandilla, Lars Kaczmirek, Siegfried Gabler, and Sabine Häder. 2011. "Response rate calculation in mobile surveys: higher precision in cases of unknown eligibility." 66th Annual AAPOR Conference.