The second conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) will be held June 25-29, 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic. A large variety of topics will be discussed, among which are sampling, nonresponse, measurement of social science concepts, evaluation of survey quality, cross-cultural research, research designs, analysis of survey data, missing data, data collection, mode effects in surveys, etc. For this conference we are organizing a session on mobile phone usage in survey research. The papers presented shall provide an overview of the experiences with mobile phone surveys in different countries. Particularly, implications of mobile phone surveys for various dimensions of the total survey error and data quality shall be discussed. Please send abstracts of around 250 (max. 500) words to the session organizers by May 1, 2007. Further Information on the Conference can be found on the conference homepage http://esra.sqp.nl/esra/conferences/2007/ Please send abstracts to both session organizers Mario Callegaro (Nebraska, USA): mca@unlserve.unl.edu Marek Fuchs (Kassel, Germany): marek.fuchs@uni-kassel.de ** Apologies for cross posting ** -- Prof. Dr. Marek Fuchs Universität Kassel FB Gesellschaftswissenschaften Professur für empirische Sozialforschung 34109 Kassel Germany +49.561.804-3102 (fon) +49.561.804-3464 (fax) -------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.uni-kassel.de/www-mail