"The aim of the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) is to provide a database which allows analysing the dynamics of welfare benefits receipt after the introduction of the Unemployment Benefits II in Germany in 2005. This entails the take up and ending of benefits receipt as...

The aim of the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) is to provide a database which allows analysing the dynamics of welfare benefits receipt after the introduction of the Unemployment Benefits II in Germany in 2005. This entails the take up and ending of benefits receipt as...

"This report documents the PASS interviewer survey which was conducted in November 2010. Altogether 253 interviewers who worked as interviewers for PASS wave 4 or 5 participated in a web survey focusing on their personality, attitudes and motivations and on strategies they use on their job. The...

Falling response rates and the advancement of technology have shaped the discussion in survey methodology in the last few years. Both led to a notable change in data collection efforts. Survey organizations try to create adaptive recruitment and survey designs and increased the collection of...

Fragebögen enthalten oftmals sogenannte "Schleifen" um Daten über ähnliche Ereignisse zu sammeln. Ein Beispiel hierfür sind Frageschleifen über verschiedene Beschäftigungsperioden, Ruhestandskonten, Wohnorte oder Ehen. Mit Hilfe dieser Schleifen werden Informationen über eine Anzahl von...

We propose a new view of initial nonresponse bias in longitudinal surveys. Under certain conditions, an initial bias may "fade-away" over consecutive waves. This effect is discussed in a Markovian framework. A general contraction theorem for time inhomogeneous Markov chains is presented. The...

Web surveys have become a standard, and often preferred, mode of survey administration in part because the technology underlying them is much more adaptable. Survey designers often use these technical features to help guide respondents through a survey, by incorporating automated skips, for...