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
- Schaurer, Ines, Bella Struminskaya, Lars Kaczmirek, and Wolfgang Bandilla. 2011. "Asking sensitive questions: do they affect participation in follow-up surveys?" AAPOR 2011: 66th Annual Conference "Public Perception & Societal Conflict".
- Züll, Cornelia, and Evi Scholz. 2011. "Item nonresponse in open ended questions: empirical analyses of respondents' answering behavior on the meaning of left and right." The 2011 American Sociological Association Spring Conference.
- Katsanidou, Alexia, and Markus Quandt. 2011. "Data Sharing in DASISH." IASSIST 2011 : Data Science Professionals: a Global Community of Sharing. http://www.iassistdata.org/downloads/2011/2011_g4_katsanidou_quandt.pdf.
- Quandt, Markus. 2011. "Discovering official statistics’ (meta)data: how the data without boundaries project helps researchers find the data they need." IASSIST 2011.
- Struminskaya, Bella, Ines Schaurer, Wolfgang Bandilla, Siegfried Gabler, Sabine Haeder, and Lars Kaczmirek. 2011. "Improved cost-effectiveness in mobile surveys using HLR-Lookup." GOR 11 : General Online Research Conference.