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
- Kaczmirek, Lars, Dorothée Behr, and Wolfgang Bandilla. 2011. "Availability of technologies for online surveys: An international comparison." ASA Conference.
- Dorer, Brita. 2011. "Questionnaire translation: the example of the European Social Survey (ESS): CHALLENGES TO SOCIAL SURVEY RESEARCH: METHODOLOGY AND EXCELLENCE. Data Confrontation Seminar together with Oliver Lipps, FORS (Lausanne, Switzerland). Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania). May 23-24, 2011 ." Kaunas/Lithuania (LiDA).
- Behr, Dorothée, Lars Kaczmirek, Michael Braun, and Wolfgang Bandilla. 2011. "Category selection probing in online access panels (Poster)." AAPOR 2011: 66th Annual Conference "Public Perception & Societal Conflict".
- Behr, Dorothée, Wolfgang Bandilla, Lars Kaczmirek, Michael Braun, and Sandra Majer. 2011. "Probing in web surveys & response burden: first results from an international web survey." International Workshop on "Comparative Survey Design and Implementation" (CSDI).
- Dorer, Brita. 2011. "Two-day exchange with Brita Dorer (GESIS) on questions of survey translation, language, and equivalence. (Invited by Brian Kleiner and Isabelle Renschler, FORS, Lausanne, Switzerland). 20-21 January 2011. ."