Ask: Research and Methods. Volume 20, Issue 1 (2011)

How to Prepare an Advance Letter? The ESS Experience in Poland

Sztabiński, Paweł B. ( 2011 )

When we send advance letters to the sampled persons in a survey, we expect that the recipients will read them and, based on the information provided, will decide on their participation in the survey. Therefore, the letter ...

Missing by Design: Planned Missing-Data Designs in Social Science

Pokropek, Artur ( 2011 )

This article presents research designs that employ modern statistical tools to optimize costs and precision of research along with some additional methodological advantages. In planned missing-data designs some parts of ...

Developing Attitudinal Indicators of Societal Progress

Harrison, Eric; Jowell, Roger; Sibley, Elissa ( 2011 )

This paper reports progress on a project to develop a set of ‘attitudinal indicators of societal progress’, as part of the wider methodological research agenda associated with the European Social Survey. It recognises the ...

Do More Contact Attempts Reduce Non-Response Bias in Representative Face-to-Face Interviews? Findings from a PAPI Survey with a Low Response Rate

Jabkowski, Piotr ( 2011 )

The aim of this article is to examine whether providing pollsters with multiple opportunities to carry out interviews with a sample of randomly selected respondents reduces non-response bias. First, I present the procedures ...

A Good Mix? Mixed Mode Data Collection and Cross-National Surveys

Martin, Piotr ( 2011 )

Can cross-national surveys benefit from mixed mode data collection? This article provides a classification of the different ways in which modes of data collection may be mixed within a cross-national survey, and investigates ...