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7/17/2023 - 7/21/2023

ESRA Conference: "Survey research in times of crisis: Challenges, opportunities, and new directions"

University of Milan-Bicocca | Milan, Italy

At this year´s ESRA conference, several sessions are organized and various papers are presented by LIfBi staff (agenda below). LIfBi is also represented with a conference booth – we are looking forward to meeting you!

Tuesday, July 18

10:30–11:30 Coffee Break: Roman Auriga and Gisela Will at LIfBi booth
11:00–12:30

State of the Metadata Infrastructure

Session Organisers:
Knut Wenzig (DIW Berlin/SOEP) 
Daniel Bela (LIfBi) 
Arne Bethmann (SHARE Germany)
12:30–14:00 Lunch Break: Michaela Sixt at LIfBi booth
14:00–15:30 Uhr

Survey Data Harmonisation 2

Paper: Connecting and Harmonizing Empirical Social Science Research in Societal Crises 
Andrés Saravia (WZB) - Presenting Author 
Stefan Liebig (FU Berlin)
Cordula Artelt (LIfBi)
Thorsten Faas (FU Berlin)
Monika Jungbauer-Gans (DZHW)
Anja Strobel (TU Chemnitz)
Mark Trappmann (IAB)
15:30–16:00 Uhr Coffee break: André Pirralha at LIfBi booth
16:00–17:00 Uhr

Cultural Capital in a Digitalized World

Session Organisers:
Elif Sari (LIfBi)
Christoph Homuth (LIfBi)

Paper: The Relevance of E-Books for Measuring Cultural Capital
Elif Sari (LIfBi)
Christoph Homuth (LIfBi) - Presenting Author

17:00–18:30 Uhr Stephan Bischof at LIfBi booth

 

Wednesday, July 19

9:00–10:30

Item Nonresponse and Unit Nonresponse in Panel Studies 1 

Session Organisers:
Uta Landrock (LIfBi)
Ariane Würbach (LIfBi)
Michael Bergrab (LIfBi)

Paper: The Problem of Panel Attrition. Do the Reasons for Dropout Change over the Course of the Panel?
Uta Landrock (LIfBi) - Presenting Author

Best practices in research data lifecycle during pandemic times 1

Paper: Managing Large-Scale Panel Surveys during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Successes and failures of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)
Roman Auriga (LIfBi) - Presenting Author
André Pirralha (LIfBi)

New technologies in surveys with refugees

Session Organisers:
Florian Heinritz (LIfBi & Universität Hamburg)
Gisela Will (LIfBi)

Paper: Using New Technologies to Survey Refugees and what that Means for the Data
Florian Heinritz (LIfBi & Universität Hamburg) - Presenting Author

10:30–11:30 Coffee break: André Pirralha and Lea Rauh at LIfBi booth
11:00–12:30

Item Nonresponse and Unit Nonresponse in Panel Studies 2 

Session Organisers:
Uta Landrock (LIfBi)
Ariane Würbach (LIfBi)
Michael Bergrab (LIfBi)

12:30–14:00 Lunch break: Michaela Sixt at LIfBi booth
14:00–15:00

Occupational Classifications and Derived Status Indices: Challenges and New Approaches 1

Session Organisers:
Christoph Homuth (LIfBi)
Corinna Kleinert (LIfBi)
Ann-Christin Bächmann (LIfBi)

Paper: Comparison of employment biographies in linked data
Nadine Bachbauer (LIfBi) - Presenting Author
Gregor Lampel (LIfBi)

Innovating social research by using existing survey data to build new databases 1

Paper: CILS4NEPS – A data harmonization project combining the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU) and the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) in Germany 
Jörg Dollmann (Mannheim Center for European Social Research MZES, University of Mannheim; Research Data Center DeZIM.fdz, DeZIM Institute, Berlin ) - Presenting Author
Lena Arnold (Mannheim Center for European Social Research MZES, University of Mannheim; Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim )
Andreas Horr (LIfBi)

15:00–16:00 Coffee break: Daniel Bela at Conference booth
16:00–17:30

Occupational Classifications and Derived Status Indices: Challenges and New Approaches 2

Session Organisers:
Christoph Homuth (LIfBi)
Corinna Kleinert (LIfBi)
Ann-Christin Bächmann (LIfBi)

Paper: Has my Employer Noticed my Promotion? How Employers and Workers Report the Level of Requirement in the German Classification of Occupations 2010
Ann-Christin Bächmann (LIfBi)
Basha Vicari (Institute for Employment Research) - Presenting Author
Aline Zucco (Hans Böckler Stiftung)

Paper: Can we (validly) measure social class in closed format?
Christoph Homuth (LIfBi) - Presenting Author
Felix Bittmann (LIfBi)
Gregor Lampel (LIfBi)

18:00–19:00 Christoph Homuth and Corinna Kleinert at LIfBi booth

 

Thursday, July 20

9:00–10:30

Boost that respondent motivation! 1

Paper: The short and long-term effects of between-wave mailings and incentives on schoolchildren and parents response rates: a randomized survey experiment on the NEPS 
Andre Pirralha (LIfBi) - Presenting Author
Roman Auriga (LIfBi)
Friederike Schlücker (LIfBi)
Götz Lechner (LIfBi)
Anna Passmann (LIfBi)

10:30–11:30 Coffee break: Daniel Bela and Gregor Lampel at LIfBi booth
11:30–12:30 Panel Discussion
12:30–14:00 Lunch break: Michaela Sixt and Corinna Kleinert at LIfBi booth
14:00–15:30

Improvement of measurements in health research 1

Paper: How do children rate their health? Evidence from a cognitive pretest in children aged 9 to 12 years
Jacqueline Kroh (LIfBi) - Presenting Author
Julia Tuppat (University of Leipzig)
Raffaela Gentile (LIfBi)
Hanna Reichelt (LIfBi)

15:30–16:00 Coffee break: Ann-Christin Bächmann and Nadine Bachbauer at LIfBi booth
16:00–17:30

Occupation Coding

Paper: Software-Assisted Occupational Coding - Evaluation of Coding and Validation Processes with CODI
Malte Schwedes (LIfBi) - Presenting Author
Gregor Lampel (LIfBi)
Markus Nester (LIfBi)

Measuring skill mismatches and qualification mismatches. Current trends, challenges and opportunities

Session Organisers:
Stephan Bischof (LIfBi)
James Patrick Allen (Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, Maastricht University (Netherlands))

17:30–18:00 Jacqueline Kroh at LIfBi booth

Friday, July 21

9:00–10:30

Interviewer-Assisted or Not? Strengths and Drawbacks of Mode Transitions in Times of Crisis

Paper: Interviewer effects in competence assessment tests in a large-scale longitudinal educational survey: a replication using NEPS data 
Laura Löwe (LIfBi) - Presenting Author
Andre Pirralha (LIfBi)

Paper: Interviewers in Surveys with Refugees
Florian Heinritz (LIfBi & Universität Hamburg) - Presenting Author

Item Nonresponse and Unit Nonresponse in Panel Studies 3

Session Organisers:
Uta Landrock (LIfBi)
Ariane Würbach (LIfBi)
Michael Bergrab (LIfBi)

Paper: Variable Selection Methods for Binary Variables and Missing Data
Michael Bergrab (LIfBi) - Presenting Author

Paper: Approval of the Cooperation Continuum - Longitudinal Response Behavior in the NEPS Starting Cohort Adults
Ariane Würbach (LIfBi) - Presenting Author

Digital technologies for the data lifecycle of large-scale surveys 2

Paper: LIfBi Study Manager: Current Status and Future Vision of Digitized Study Management in the NEPS
Nils Lerch (LIfBi)
Lea Rauh (LIfBi) - Presenting Author

10:30–11:30 Coffee break: Uta Landrock and Ariane Würbach at LIfBi booth

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