Dear Colleagues, Please consider the following calls for papers at ESRA 2011 (Lausanne, Switzerland from *July 18-22, 2011*) for the sessions listed below. Please submit an abstract of your paper containing no more than 250 words via the ESRA website: http://surveymethodology.eu/conferences/ The closing date for submission of paper proposals is 14 January 2011. With best regards Natalja Menold --------------------------------------- Call for Paper Proposals Session: Falsifications in Survey Data: Prevention and Detection Coordinators: Natalja Menold1, Peter Winker2, Gesine Guellner1, Nina Storfinger2 1GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences; 2University of Giessen Researchers were invited to submit papers dealing with falsifications of survey data as intentional departure from guidelines and instructions by the interviewers. These falsifications my consist on fabrications of interviews, falsifying of the survey process data, deliberately miscoding the answers to a question and deliberately interviewing of nonsampled persons. The papers could present theoretical and methodological approaches as well as empirical studies. These my include the following topics: - prevalence of falsifications, - interviewers’ motivation, - development and evaluation of methods for prevention or detection of falsified data, - falsifications and survey mode - falsifications and survey bias ---------------------------------------- Call for Paper Proposals Session: "Pioneering Survey Translation: Frontier research in questionnaire translation and multilingual measurement instruments" Coordinators: Dorothée Behr, Brita Dorer, both GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences For this session we invite papers on state-of-the-art methodologies in questionnaire translation. These papers may range from integration of translation into the questionnaire design process over translation and assessment methodologies (team approaches, cognitive interviewing, expert rating, language harmonization across same-language-versions, etc.) to IT and web methodologies that support translation and assessment. We particularly welcome papers that relate any methods used to an underlying concept of what a good translation should look like or to the solution of specific translation problems. ------------------------------------------- Call for Paper Proposals Session: Construction of Answer Scale Formats in Questionnaires Coordinator: Natalja Menold, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Researchers were invited to submit papers dealing with design of rating scales for questions/items to measure opinions or behaviour in surveys. Especially of interest are Likert scales as well as their alternatives. The papers could include questions about the several design aspects of answer scales such as number of categories, usage of middle category, usage of unipolar or bipolar answer scales, usage of numerical and/or verbal labels, ascending or descending order of categories. Of interest are not only the effects of design aspects on the formatting of answers and reliability and validity of data but also studies on mediators and moderators in this process, e.g. effects of cognitional or motivational factors as well as socio demographical personal characteristics. Specifics in design of answer scales in different survey modes, the comparability of answer scales in mixed mode surveys as well as their intercultural comparability are further topics of interest. ---------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS ----------------------------------------- To be considered for inclusion in the scientific programme of ESRA 2011, please submit an abstract of your paper containing no more than 250 words via the ESRA website: http://surveymethodology.eu/conferences/ To submit a presentation, sign up or log in to the ESRA website. After logging in with your account, click "Propose a new presentation" to start submitting. The closing date for submission of paper proposals is 14 January 2011. Proposals are invited in any area of survey methodology, or in substantive areas of survey research. We particularly welcome submissions in the following areas: * Sampling and sample design * Web surveys * Unit Nonresponse and attrition * Item nonresponse * Weighting and imputation * Question testing and piloting * Survey mode * Data linkage * Election polling and public opinion * Survey analysis techniques * Methods for cross-national analysis * Paradata and fieldwork * Substantive applications * Longitudinal surveys * Data archiving The inaugural ESRA award for the best paper submitted by an early-career researcher Researchers within five years of the completion of their doctorate or within five years of starting a career in survey research who wish to be considered for the ESRA Early-Career Researcher award should submit full papers to the prize committee. The winning paper will be awarded a prize of 600 euros. More information about the Early-Career Researcher award will be announced on the conference website. Professor Patrick Sturgis, Conference Chair Kathrin Kissau, FORS (local organising committee) Marieke Voorpostel, FORS (local organising committee) Contact information: conference@surveymethodology.eu --- Dr. Natalja Menold, Dipl.-Psych. GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Survey Design and Methodology (SDM) B2,1 D-68159 Mannheim Tel.: 0621 / 1246 286 Fax: 0621 / 1246 100 Mail: natalja.menold@gesis.org www.gesis.org