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Call for Papers 7th MESS workshop‏

Apr 18 2013

Call for papers for the 7th MESS workshop, August 30 -31, 2013

We are pleased to announce the seventh MESS workshop on innovative aspects of Internet interviewing, and on research conducted in the LISS panel and Immigrant panel. We kindly invite you to submit a paper to be presented at this workshop. Please indicate in which of the following themes your presentation can be categorized:
1. Response behaviour and representativity in web surveys, Internet panels and mobile surveys
Examples would be: Attrition effects specific for Internet panels, weights for Internet panels, models for longitudinal analysis, stimulating online response over time, special groups for Internet surveys (e.g. visually impaired), etc.
2. Questionnaire design for online datacollection, including mobile questionnaires
Examples would be: visual design of online questionnaires, experiments with apps and mobile questionnaires, comparison of response effects in computer-based and
mobile questionnaires 
3. Challenges in linking Internet survey data to administrative data
What are the challenges in linking (Internet) survey data to administrative data? What does linking bring us in addition to the analysis of the separate data sets.
4. Biomarker measures and innovative health measures
The use of advanced measures of weight, blood pressure, activity, heart rate, the collecting of traditional biomarkers in online panels or in combination with online surveys. Also: The analysis of the high frequency data resulting from innovative health measures: How can we handle such large amount of data, what are appropriate models, etc.
5. New technology: smartphones, new devices, speech technology, GPS
Examples would be: Mobility research using GPS data, combinations of visual and voice mode, speech technology, innovative and new designs, special experimental set-ups. Also: The analysis of GPS data: How to handle these privacy-sensitive data, what are appropriate models for it, etc.
6. Studies resulting from the MESS project
Researches who have used the LISS panel or Immigrant panel to collect data, or who have used the data in the LISS data archive, are invited to present the results of their study.
Abstracts and papers can be submitted via email to Josette Janssen: jjanssen@uvt.nl, by June 15, 2013 at the latest. Submissions will be acknowledged by return email and acceptances will be communicated by July 1, 2013. For presenters of accepted papers travel and lodging costs associated with attending will be reimbursed.


The workshop will be held at a central location in The Netherlands.


Marcel Das
Arie Kapteyn
Annette Scherpenzeel
Arthur van Soest

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