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
- Quandt, Markus, and Antonia May. 2019. "Using Latent Class Analysis for testing the equivalence of multi-item scales across data from different survey programs. The example of National Identity types." Conference of the ‘Survey Data Recycling Project’: Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland, 2019-12-16.
- Schneider, Silke L.. 2019. "The classification of educational attainment in social surveys: a generalized framework." Expert workshop on ‘Comparative Analysis of Longitudinal Data on Educational Outcomes’, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin, 2019-11-27.
- Schneider, Silke L., Verena Ortmanns, Roberto Briceno-Rosas, and Jessica M. E. Herzing. 2019. "Messung und Kodierung von Bildungsabschlüssen in computergestützten interkulturellen Umfragen: Eine Bilanz." Gemeinsame Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute (ASI) und der DGS-Sektion „Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung“: Empirische Sozialforschung in Zeiten der Digitalisierung – Methodische Konsequenzen neuer Technologien, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln, 2019-11-16.
- Braun, Michael, Dorothée Behr, Katharina Meitinger, Klara Raiber, and Lydia Repke. 2019. "Using Web Probing to Elucidate Respondents’ Understanding of ‘Minorities’ in Cross-Cultural Comparative Research." ASK: Research and Methods 28 (1): 3-20. https://doi.org/10.18061/ask.v28i1.0001 .
- Ortmanns, Verena, and Silke L. Schneider. 2019. "Database of fields of education, with explanatory note: Deliverable 8.9 of the SERISS project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme GA No: 654221." SERISS. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7965410. https://seriss.eu/resources/deliverables/.