The city data collection is one of the regular data collections of Eurostat and the national statistical institutes. The demand for timely and reliable socio-economic data on cities and functional urban areas has significantly increased. Since 2017, the cities and their functional urban areas...

Living standards measurement surveys require sustained attention for several hours. We quantify survey fatigue by randomizing the order of questions in 2-3 hour-long in-person surveys. An additional hour of survey time increases the probability that a respondent skips a question by 10-64%....

Surveys are an essential approach for eliciting otherwise invisible factors such as perceptions, knowledge and beliefs, attitudes, and reasoning. These factors are critical determinants of social, economic, and political outcomes. Surveys are not merely a research tool. They are also not only a...