Thursday, October 13th

Conference Opening | Room 010
Wolfgang Aschauer (ESA RN 21 coordinator)
Savvas Katsikides (Dean of Faculty Of Social Sciences And Education - University of Cyprus)
Nektarios Partasides (President of the Cyprus Sociological Association)
I asonas Lamprianou (Local Organizer - University of Cyprus)

Keynote Eldad Davidov (University of Zürich, Switzerland) | Room 010
Challenges in the analysis of cross-cultural data

Chair: Wolfgang Aschauer (University of Salzburg, Austria)

Session 1: Cross-national surveys: Challenges to achieve equivalent results | Room 010
Chair: Eldad Davidov (University of Zürich)

Anna Domaranska (Institute of Sociology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Testing the measurement equivalence in cross-cultural research: Address the problem of nonequivalence

Magdalena Burdach and Jolanta Perek-Białas (Warsaw School of Economics/Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Evaluation of using SEM in analysis of relations between trust and public institutions' performance in Poland and Germany

Tomasz Drabowicz (Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of General Sociology, University of Lodz, Poland)

An investigation into the theory of social uses of the Internet:
Structured Data Analysis of digital usage space in Germany, Norway, and Poland

Wolfgang Aschauer, Martin Weichbold and Alexander Seymer (Universität Salzburg)

Monitoring the challenge of migration for Europe based on official statistics
The necessity of conceptual clarity and data quality in applications for government authorities

Joseph W. Sakshaug (corresponding author and presenter; University of Manchester and German Institute for Employment Research); Frederick G. Conrad (University of Michigan and University of Maryland) and Mick P. Couper (University of Michigan and University of Maryland)

Factors Affecting the Reliability of Occupation Codes Derived from Open-Ended Reports

Kathrin Gärtner (Statistik Austria, Wien) and Manfred Zentner (Donau-Universität Krems)

Enhancing the quality of an index measuring quality of life of young people through participation of experts and young people themselves

Szymon Czarnik (Institute of Sociology Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

Measurement of Occupational Segregation Using International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)

Henning Silber and Cornelia Zuell (GESIS)

"My vote does not matter" – Open-ended questions on non-voting behavior in the German general elections 2013

Georg P. Mueller (University of Fribourg, Swiss)

Three-Valued Modal Logic for the Fuzzy Classification of Open-Ended Interview Answers

Tasos C. Christofides (University of Cyprus)

A review of indirect questioning techniques for social scientists

Ulrich Pötter & Holger Quellenberg (German Youth Institute, Munich)

Mitigating the Effects of Panel Attrition Processes: The Uses of Refreshment Samples

Andreas Quatember (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

Privacy Protection vs. Efficiency in Randomized Response Questioning Designs

Iasonas Lamprianou (Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus)

Sampling through gatekeepers in survey research: biases and suggestions

Eleni Manoli (University of Cyprus)
An improved version of the Item Count Technique

Uta Landrock and Henning Best (TU Kaiserslautern)

A sampling strategy for qualitative interviews based on quantitative methods

Mark Trappmann, Co-authors: Ben Jann, Antje Kirchner, Ivar Krumpal and Hagen von Hermanni (Universität Leipzig, Institut für Soziologie)

Measuring and Explaining Undeclared Work in Germany: An Empirical Study with a Special Focus in Social Desirability Bias

Friday, October 14th

Keynote Jörg Blasius (University of Bonn, Germany) | Room 010
Another look at data quality in cross-national comparative research

Chair: Jolanta Perek-Białas (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Session 6: Interviewer effects and measurement errors – further discussions | Room 010
Chair: Jörg Blasius (University of Bonn, Germany)

Uta Landrock (TU Kaiserslautern)

The impact of faked interviews on results of social science research

Marc Höglinger and Andreas Diekmann (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

Evaluating Special Techniques for Surveying Sensitive Topics: An Approach that Detects False Positives

Puzanova Zhanna Vasilyevna & Tertyshnikova Anastasia Gennadyevna (Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia)

Vignette method as a projective technique of studying the sensitive issues in quantitative research

Philipp Sischka, Alexandra Mergener, Kristina Marliese Neufang & Jean Philippe Décieux

Forced Answering in Online Surveys: Is it really a reactance effect that reduces data quality?

Tobias Stark (European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, Utrecht University, NL) and Volker Stocké (Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel)

Survey Satisficing and Response Accuracy of Proxy Reports in Survey Interviews

Kostas Gemenis (University of Twente)

Detecting biased and redundant statements in voting advice applications

Evi Scholz (GESIS) and Cornelia Zuell (GESIS)

Social Desirability and Left-right Scale Placement in a Cross-cultural Perspective

Vasileios Manavopoulos (Cyprus University of Technology), Fernando Mendez (University of Zurich) and Vasiliki Triga (Cyprus University of Technology)

Testing the mode effect hypothesis: A comparison of the response styles of traditional survey respondents and online respondents.

Thekla Afantiti Lamprianou (Centre for Educational Research and Evaluation)

The length of Likert response scale (number of options) and the quality of measurement: a double experimental design

S.C.J. (Bastiaan) Bruinsma (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Assessing the Data Quality of Items in Voting Advice Applications

Alessandra Gaia (UCL, Institute of Education) and Noah Uhrig

A Comparison of Self-reported Sexual Identity Using Direct and Indirect Questioning

Marcin Kocór and Szymon Czarnik (Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków)

How to ask about skills? Different approach to estimate skills demand and supply.

Thomas Glaser (Statistik Austria, Wien)

Improvement of sampling and weighting of EU-SILC in Austria by using income register data from administrative sources

Serhii Dembitskyi (Institute of sociology NAS of Ukraine)

SCL-9-NR: a brief test for the measurement of psychological distress in survey research

Markus Bönisch (Statistics Austria, National Project Manager – PIAAC Austria)

Data quality in PIAAC – International standards and national procedures

Alexandra Petridou and Yiasemina Karagiorgi (Cyprus Centre for Educational Research and Evaluation)

The Diagnostic Language Tests "Milas Ellinika I": A Validation Study

Axel Franzen and Sebastian Mader (University of Bern, Institute of Sociology)

Testing Measurements of Environmental Concern: Does a simple question outperform multi-item scales?

Luis Martínez-Uribe (Fundación Juan March) and Modesto Escobar (University of Salamanca)

Obtaining non-official data. Quality control for data from the Web

Tobias Gummer (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim)

Comparing different selection criteria when applying case prioritization: A simulation study.

Patrycja Antosz (Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University)

Agent based modeling as a research tool in social sciences – example of modeling shirking behaviour in organisations.

Maja Rynko (Warsaw School of Economics, Institute of Statistics and Demography)

Nonresponse bias in PIAAC and postPIAAC surveys in Poland

Alexandra Mergener (BIBB, Bonn)

Validity of Factorial Survey: A Comparison of vignette-judgements and single-item responses

Patrick Lazarevic (TU Dortmund University)

Reporting Your Pension. Determining the Role of Age-Specific Measurement Error in Reporting Pensions by Using Administrative Data from SHARE-RV

Katarzyna Lisek (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)

Be an Expert - a new tool for crowdsourced quantitative text analysis

Saturday, October 15th

09.30 – 13.00

(including coffee break)

Workshop on Structural Equation Modelling
Jochen Mayerl Computer
B 128

Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is a powerful tool to analyze latent variable models that are common in social sciences, e.g. the analysis of social and political attitudes, social values, personality factors, and behavioural intentions. SEM combines factor analysis and path analysis by simultaneously estimating causal relations between latent constructs ('structural model') and relations between latent constructs and their corresponding manifest indicators ('measurement models'). Additionally, SEM allows the estimation and control of random and systematic measurement errors. Thus, SEM methodology allows an adequate modelling and empirical testing of measurement models and complex theoretical assumptions.

The course introduces theory and practice of SEM with different software packages (e.g. Mplus, AMOS, Lavaan, EQS) and discusses typical problems researchers have to deal with when adopting their own research models.

The course covers topics like:

• Specification problems (e.g. formative vs. reflective indicators; higher order factors, modelling strategies)
• Model evaluation (e.g. fit indices, modification indices, correction of attenuation, preconditions)
• Systematic measurement errors
• Measurement equivalence in longitudinal and multiple group modelling
• Mean structure modelling
• Causality (e.g. autoregressive cross-lagged models, mediator models, non-recursive models, equivalent models)
• Latent variable interaction effects
• Bootstrapping and missing value treatment
• Estimation problems, different estimators and categorical structural equation models
• Comparison of different SEM software packages

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