Symposium on Nonresponse, Questionnaire Split and Multiple
Imputation
Reports from Academic and Practice
Organized by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in cooperation with
ZUMA Mannheim and the Institute of Employment Research at Nuremberg.
Sponsored by GfK AG Nuremberg.
Thursday, September 5th, 2002 at
Nuremberg, Germany, Andrej-Sacharow-Platz 1
The organizing committee is delighted to be able to present a selection
of the top researchers from universities and leading research institutes
on this topic. If you like to learn more about respondent burden, the
threat of missing data, and approaches of help by multiple matrix
sampling and multiple imputation, here is the symposium you should not
miss!
Program of Thursday, September 5th,
2002
08:15 Registration
09:00 Welcome by the University
Part
I Nonresponse
and Survey Data
Quality
Chair:
Uwe
Blien (Institute for Employment Research,
Nuremberg)
09:15 Robert Nicklas (GfK
Television Research)
Questionnaire
Length and Respondent Burden in Media Practice
09:35 Peter Ph. Mohler (ZUMA
Mannheim)
Interviewers,
Nonresponse and Data Quality
10:10 Ulrich Rendtel
(University of
Frankfurt)
Panel
Attrition in Household Surveys
Part
II Questionnaire
Split to Reduce Respondent Burden
Chair:
Raimund
Wildner (GfK e.V. Nuremberg)
11:15 Wolfgang Bals
(IT-Consultant)
Controlled
Split Survey in Media Practice
11:35 Trivellore E.
Raghunathan (University of
Michigan)
Multiple
Matrix Sampling
12:10 Susanne Rässler
(University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Split
Questionnaire Survey Sampling
Part
III Imputation
in Large-Scale Surveys
Chair:
Siegfried
Gabler (ZUMA
Mannheim)
14:00 Andrea Scharrenbroch (GfK Research, Development and
Consulting)
Single
Imputation in Large-Scale Media Surveys
14:20 Joseph L. Schafer
(Pennsylvania State
University)
“Thou
shalt not impute only once”
14:55 Stef van Buuren (TNO
Prevention and Health, Leiden)
Practical
Issues in Multiple Imputation for Surveys
Part
IV Summary
and Discussion
Chair:
Ingo
Klein (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
16:00 Donald B. Rubin (Harvard
University)
Concluding
remarks
16:45 General Discussion
17:30 Reception and Poster
Presentation
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15th with this registration form. See
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Organizing
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Susanne Rässler (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Uwe Blien (Institute for Employment Research,
Nuremberg)
Siegfried Gabler (ZUMA
Mannheim)
Main sponsor:
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