Dear Colleagues,

we invite submissions to our session on "Using Survey Data for Spatial Analysis" at the 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) in Reykjavik, Iceland, 13-17 July 2015.

The session aims at exploring new developments in spatial meethods, seeing space either as dependent or independent variable: Researchers can ask how people think about space and construct space or they can see space as a relevant frame for social action that influences social life. Papers address one of the questions below either at a more general methodological level or using a concrete example in a specific research project:

(1) How can survey data be used for spatial analysis? Can they be used by themselves, or do they have to be mixed with other data, e.g. geodata, qualitative data?

(2) What methodological innovations concerning the spatial can be observed? (How) can traditional sociological or geographical methods be adjusted to address spatial problems within sociology?

(3) Which sampling strategies are appropriate for spatial problems?

(4) Which strategies of data analysis are appropriate for spatial analysis?

Paper proposals must be submitted online by 15 January 2015 via the conference webpage: http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference

Please feel also free to distribute this Call to other persons who might be interested in presenting a paper.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Cornelia Thierbach, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, mailto:cornelia.thierbach@tu-berlin.de cornelia.thierbach@tu-berlin.de

Linda Hering, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, mailto:linda.hering@tu-berlin.de linda.hering@tu-berlin.de

Nina Baur, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, mailto:nina.baur@tu-berlin.de nina.baur@tu-berlin.de