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    ESRA 2025 conference

    Verian experts are attending the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) 2025 conference, bringing together applied survey researchers, methodologists, and statisticians from around the world. 

     

     

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    Our experts at Verian will showcase their latest survey research, focusing on the theme of the conference: Promises and problems of new and alternative data sources and data formats for survey research. Methodological challenges and substantive conclusions.

    The 11th ESRA conference will take place from 14-18 July 2025, hosted by Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The conference also offers a number of professional development opportunities, such as short course and awards.

    ESRA is the leading professional organisation of survey researchers in Europe, with members from the academic, government, non-profit and commercial sectors.
    Verian Group

    ESRA 2025 Programme - Verian

    Tuesday 15 July

    09:00 - 10:30: Harnessing AI and Big Data for Model-based Inference

    Josef Hartmann 

    09:00 - 10:30: Qualitative Data Meets Quantitative Analysis: Bridging the Gap with Large Language Models

    Josef Hartmann (Co-author)

    13:30 - 15:00: The effect of questionnaire duration on break-off rates: findings from the 2024 European Working Conditions Survey

    Hajar Gad
    Tanja Kimova (Co-author)

    13:30 - 15:00:  The effect of questionnaire duration on yield, sample composition and data quality: findings from the 2024 European Working Conditions Survey

    Tanja Kimova (Co-author)
    Hajar Gad (Co-author)
    Jamie Burnett (Co-author)

    13:30 - 15:00: Comparing Face-to-Face and Self-Completion Surveys: findings from the 2024 European Working Conditions Survey

    Jamie Burnett
    Alexandra Cronberg

    13:30 - 15:00: Comparing an ‘ask first’ vs ‘ask last’ approach to recruitment for a pan-European online survey: findings from the 2024 European Working Conditions Survey.

    Jamie Burnett
    Alexandra Cronberg

    13:45 - 15:00: Lessons from iterative user testing of an online survey questionnaire: recommendations for online layouts for a range of question types

    Mimi Aram-Walker
    Alice McGee

    Wednesday 16 July

    09:00 - 10:30: The effect of incentives strategies on yield, sample composition and data quality: findings from the 2024 European Working Conditions Survey

    Tanja Kimova
    Jamie Burnett
    Hajar Gad (Co-author)

    11:00 - 12:00: Testing two approaches to within-household selection in a postal push-to-web survey: findings from the 2024 European Working Conditions Survey

    Jamie Burnett 
    Hajar Gad (Co-author)
    Tanja Kimova (Co-author)

    11:00 - 12:00: To answer or not to answer – Assessing drivers of item-nonresponse among young respondents

    Aaron Heinz
    Sophia McDonnell
    Elke Himmelsbach

    13:30 - 15:00: Exploring survey response rates on the CSEW – pre and post pandemic

    Joel Williams

    14:00 - 15:00: Projecting and estimating the results of the European Elections 2024

    Nicolas Bécuwe
    Alban Versailles

    16:00 - 17:30: Optimising Occupation and Industry Data Collection in Cross-National Surveys

    Russell Castañeda
    Nicolas Bécuwe

    16:00 - 17:30: Hearing children’s voices: designing and pre-testing questions for children and young people

    Alice McGee
    Lucy Campbell

    16:00 - 17:30: Including Children and Young People in Survey Research: lessons from qualitative and cognitive interviews and recommendations for best practice

    Lucy Campbell

    16:00 - 17:30: Methodological and ethical considerations for conducting surveys among children and young people: summary of findings from a rapid evidence review of over 30 UK studies

    Becky Hamlyn

    Thursday 17 July

    09:00 - 10:30: Evaluating applications of generative artificial intelligence in questionnaire design, evaluation and testing

    Alice McGee

    09:00 - 10:30: Assessing the Effectiveness of LLMs in the Evaluation of Draft Survey Questions Using Rule-Based QDET Frameworks

    Alice McGee

    15:50 - 17:00: Surveying minorities within and across workplaces: Exploring challenges and solutions through the Our Black Workforce survey, a study for Black and Black-heritage police officers and staff

    Tom Luckwell

    15:50 - 17:00: The effect of questionnaire duration and incentive on survey engagement, response differentiation and open-ended answer quality: findings from the 2024 European Working Conditions Survey

    Tanja Kimova
    Hajar Gad (Co-author)
    Jamie Burnett

    Friday 19 July

    09:30 - 10:30: Sampling and survey administration challenges in Nursing Homes: the case of the SHARE panel in France

    Yves Fradier (Co-author)
    Clément Collin (Co-author)

     

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