NEPS project members took this chance to present the NEPS and their work within the NEPS to the scientific community. They gave six different talks on the following topics:

·     -    “The National Educational Panel Study in Germany: Purpose, Design and Challenges” by Jutta von Maurice, Volker Stocké and Hans-Peter Blossfeld (session „Challenges in Educational Surveys I”)

·     -    “Two-stage indirect sampling of Kindergarten children in the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)” by Solange Koch (session „Challenges in Educational Surveys I”)

·     -    “Simulation based determination of first stage’s sample size using multistage sampling in educational surveys” by Hans Walter Steinhauer (session “Challenges in Educational Surveys II”)

·     -    “Multi-stage testing in longitudinal designs” by Steffi Pohl and Claus Carstensen (session “Challenges in Educational Surveys II”)

·     -    “Challenges in Data Collection and Data Protection: The National Educational Panel Study” by Ina Ristau, Sonja Meixner, Nicole Lidzba, André Müller-Kuller, Jutta von Maurice and Hans-Peter Blossfeld (session “Survey innovations in data collection for longitudinal surveys of the general Population”)

·     -    “Bayesian Analysis of Binary Probit Models: The Case of Measurement Error and Sequential Regression Modeling for Missing Explaining Factors” by Solange Koch, Benno Schönberger and Christian Aßmann (session “Multiple imputation of complex data designs II”)

 

The conference provided nearly 600 presentations this year. The complete conference program is available here.