Web tracking - augmenting web surveys with app, URL, and search term data

Joshua Claaßen, Jan Karem Höhne

DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Structured information extraction with LLMs

Paul Ferdinand Simmering

Q Agentur für Forschung GmbH, Germany

Working with research partners - strategies for effectively collaborating on a research project with external agencies

Mario Callegaro, Monica Sanchez

Callegaro Research, Germany

Collecting and analyzing smartphone (survey) data using the GESIS AppKit

Julian Kohne, Mareike Wieland, Lukas Rahnke-Otto, Maximilian Haag

GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany (all)

Making inference from nonprobability online surveys

Camilla Salvatore

Utrecht University, Netherlands, The

Show me, how you touch it – The effects of vicarious touch in online marketing videos

Sebastian Ziaja, Christian Bosau

Rheinische Hochschule Köln gGmbH, Germany

Data-Driven Decision-Making in Real Estate with TenantCM: Unlocking Value from Tenant Satisfaction Surveys

Matthias David Keller, Inna Becher, Verena Mack, Marc Herter, Justus Rathmann, Nicole Hänzi

YouGov Schweiz AG

Beyond Reports 2.0: Enhancing Customer Segmentation with Retrieval-Augmented Persona Bots

Theo Gerstenmaier

Factworks, Germany

Understanding Participation in Web Tracking Studies: A Comparison of Probabilistic and Nonprobabilistic Sampling Strategies

Joachim Piepenburg, Bernd Weiß, Sebastian Stier, Frank Mangold, Judith Gilsbach, Barbara Binder

GESIS, Germany

Socioeconomic Status and Patterns of Online Behavior in Germany

Barbara Binder

GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

Bridging Gaps or Deepening Divides? The Impact of Online Intermediaries on News Diversity

Felix Schmidt

Department of Computational Social Science, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

The Impact of Voting Advice Applications on Voting Behavior: Evidence from the 2024 Austrian Elections

Katharina Pfaff, Sylvia Kritzinger

University of Vienna, Austria

Assessing Voter Fatigue: Media Consumption and Political Engagement Across Israeli Election Cycles (2019-2022)

Dana Weimann Saks, Yaron Ariel, Vered Elishar

The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel

Click for Clarity? Examining the effect of optional information on prediction accuracy in Swiss Referenda

Verena Mack¹, Fabian Bergmann¹, Susumu Shikano², Steffen Stell²

1: YouGov Schweiz AG, Switzerland; 2: Universität Konstanz, Germany

Predicting Travel Purpose in a Smartphone-Based Travel Survey

Solichatus Zahroh¹, Peter Lugtig¹, Yvonne Gootzen², Jonas Klingwort², Barry Schouten^1,2

1: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 2: Statistics Netherlands, The Netherlands

Satisficing in a German Self-Administered Probability-Based Panel Survey

Julia Witton

Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Germany

Examining the effects of embodied interviewing agents on open narrative responses

Jan Karem Höhne¹, Cornelia Neuert², Joshua Claassen¹

1: DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany; 2: GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Video-interviewing as part of a multi-mode design in panel studies: insights from the field

Julia Witton¹, Carina Cornesse², Markus Grabka¹, Sabine Zinn^1,3

1: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin); 2: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften; 3: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Willingness to Participate in Surveys Administered by Smart Speakers

Ceyda Deveci, Marek Fuchs, Anke Metzler

Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Data Quality Investigations of Online Live Video Interviewing: Empirical Evidence from Several Major UK Social Surveys

Gabriele Durrant¹, Sebastian Kocar², Tim Hanson³, Matt Brown³, Carole Sanchez³, Martin Wood⁴, Kate Taylor⁴, Maria Tsantani⁴, Tom Huskinson⁵

1: University of Southampton, United Kingdom; 2: University of Queensland; 3: UCL, University College London; 4: NatCen; 5: Ipsos

Attrition patterns and warning signs in a long-term, high frequency probability online panel

Tobias Rettig, Anne Balz

University of Mannheim, Germany

Do we need to include offliners in self-administered general population surveys? An analysis of 150 substantive variables in a probability-based mixed-mode panel survey in Germany

Lena Rembser, Tobias Gummer

GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

Reducing Political Science Surveys’ Attrition Bias Without Limiting Substantive Research: Potentials of Adaptive Survey Design and Missing Data Strategies.

Saskia Bartholomäus

GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

Quantifying Questionnaire Design: A Holistic Approach to Data Quality and User Engagement

Eva Wittmann, Cecile Carre

Ipsos

Exploring Data Donation through Mobile Computer Devices: A Study on Student Use of AI Tools in Academic Contexts

Dimitri Prandner¹, Andreas Zemsauer², Thomas Schöftner³, Daniela Wetzelhütter²

1: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz; 2: FH Oberösterreich (Standort Linz); 3: Private Pädagogische Hochschule der Diözese Linz

How accurate are survey measures on Facebook activity based on donated digital data?

Adam Stefkovics, Zoltán Kmetty

HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary

Estimating COVID-19 vaccine uptake from donated digital behavioural data

Adam Stefkovics, Anna Sára Ligeti, Júlia Koltai

HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary

Measuring the accuracy of self-reported Instagram behavior - a data donation approach.

Frieder Rodewald, Florian Keusch, Daria Szafran, Ruben Bach

University of Mannheim, Germany

War Journalism on Telegram? Ethical and Professional Dilemmas of Telegram Content Creators During War

Vered Elishar, Dana Weimann Saks, Ariel Yaron

The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel

Early Warnings: Forecasting Edits and Disputes on Wikipedia Armed Conflict Pages

Marieth Coetzer¹, Fabian Braesemann^1,2

1: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2: Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, Germany

Is Wikipedia a battleground of the Russo-Ukrainian war?

Leopold Sven Augustin, Fabian Braesemann

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Identifying, Characterizing, and Mitigating Errors in the Automated Measurement of Social Constructs from Text Data

Indira Sen

University of Mannheim, Germany

The Power of Language: The Use, Effect, and Spread of Gender-Inclusive Language

Anica Waldendorf

Nuffield College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Horoscoping and Sampling: Preregistered Exploration of the Impact of Birth Month on Research Outcomes via the ‘Whose Birthday Is Next’ Sampling Strategy

Lydia Repke¹, Joris Mulder², Daniel Oberski³

1: GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany; 2: Tilburg University, Netherlands; 3: Utrecht University, Netherlands

Sampling Refugees in Countries of First Refuge – An International Snowball Sampling Approach with Multiple Target Populations

Marvin Bürmann, Armin Küchler

Bielefeld University, Germany

Social Media Sampling for Quantitative Surveys in Hard-to-Reach Countries

Orkan Dolay, Clemens Rathe

Bilendi & respondi, France

Knock-to-nudge methods to improve survey participation in the UK

Olga Maslovskaya, Cristian Domarchi, Peter WF Smith

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

The Norm and the Preference of Reciprocity – the special role of prepaid incentives for the target persons’ participation at a panel survey

Rolf Becker

University of Bern, Switzerland

Recruitment incentive experiment of the probability-based panel Health in Germany: results on outcome rates, non-response bias and panel case costs

Johannes Lemcke¹, Stefan Damerow¹, Ilter Öztürk¹, Nicolas Frenzel Baudisch², Thomas Weiß², Jennifer Allen²

1: Robert Koch-Institut, Germany; 2: infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft GmbH

Large Language Models struggle as virtual survey respondents

Zsófia Rakovics^1,2,3, Márton Rakovics^1,2

1: ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; 2: ELTE Research Center for Computational Social Science; 3: HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Synthetic Respondents, Real Bias? Investigating AI-Generated Survey Responses

Charlotte Pauline Müller¹, Bella Struminskaya², Peter Lugtig²

1: Lund University, Sweden; 2: Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Rumor propagation across war stages: Influences of psychological, social, and mainstream media factors

Yaron Ariel, Vered Elishar, Dana Weimann Saks

The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel

Social Media, Anxiety, and Ethnic Disparities - The Case of the Jewish and Arab Population Groups Following October 7 in Israel

Vlad Vasiliu¹, Haneen Shibli², Gal Yavetz³

1: Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel; 2: University of Washington, USA; 3: Bar Ilan University, Israel

What makes media contents credible? A survey experiment on the relative importance of visual layout, objective quality and confirmation bias for public opinion formation

Sandra Walzenbach

University of Konstanz, Germany

A Simple Invitation: A Study on the Impact of Simplified Invitation Letters on the Willingness to Join a Probability-Based Web Panel in Sweden

Alexandra Garcia Nilsson, Felix Cassel, Björn Rönnerstrand

The SOM Institute, Sweden

Picture this! The influence of stressing the camera feature in the mail invitation to an app-based household budget survey on participation behavior

Florian Keusch¹, Maren Fritz¹, Johannes Volk², Lasse Häufglöckner²

1: University of Mannheim, Germany; 2: Destatis - Federal Statistical Office Germany, Germany

Ask Me Now or Lose Me Later – The Impact of Immediate Follow-Up on Participation Rates, Retention and Data Quality in Web Panels.

Tilda Ekström, Alexandra Garcia Nilsson, Anders Carlander

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Large-scale social surveys without field interviewers in the UK: An evidence review

Cristian Domarchi¹, Olga Maslovskaya¹, Peter J. Lynn², Rory Fitzgerald³, Nhlanhla Ndebele³, Ruxandra Comanaru³

1: University of Southampton, United Kingdom; 2: University of Essex, United Kingdom; 3: City, University of London, United Kingdom

Does web as first mode in a mixed-mode establishment survey affect the data quality?

Corinna König, Joe Sakshaug

Institute for Employment Research, Germany

Examining Differences in Face-to-Face and Self-Administered Mixed-Mode Surveys: Insights from a General Social Survey

Alexandra Asimov

GESIS, Germany

Optimising Online Time Use Surveys: Balancing Quality, Efficiency, and Inclusivity

Marta Mezzanzanica

National Centre for Social Research, United Kingdom

What do participants refer to when asked about their place of residence?

Manuela Schmidt¹, Claudia Schmiedeberg²

1: University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany; 2: LMU Munich, Germany

Will harmony last? - Harmonizing time series survey data with equating under challenging patterns of data availability

Matthias Roth, Ranjit Konrad Singh

GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Germany

Going Multimodal: Challenges (and Opportunities) of Streamlining Deliverable Production with AI

Georg Wittenburg¹, Sophia McDonnell²

1: Inspirient; 2: Verian

Enhancing Open-Answer Coding in Quantitative Surveys Using Optimized LLM Tools

Orkan Dolay, Densi Bonnay

Bilendi & respondi, France

Meet Your New Client: Writing Reports for AIs

Georg Wittenburg¹, Paul Simmering², Oliver Tabino²

1: Inspirient; 2: Q Agentur für Forschung

Designing passwords for web survey access: The effect of password length and complexity on survey and panel recruitment

Georg-Christoph Haas, Marieke Volkert, Stefan Zins

Institute for Employment Research, Germany

Using panelists self-stated motivations to craft efficient targeted email invitations to an online probability panel

Georg-Christoph Haas¹, Benjamin Baisch¹, Mark Trappmann^1,2, Jonas Weik¹

1: Institute for Employment Research, Germany; 2: University of Bamberg

Backing up a Panel with Piggybacking – The Effect of Piggybacking Recruitment on Nonresponse Bias and Panel Attrition in a Mixed Mode Panel Survey

Björn Rohr

GESIS - Leibnitz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

Where You Are Is What You Get? Sample Inconsistencies of Google Trends Data Across Download Locations

Johanna Hölzl, Florian Keusch, John Collins

University of Mannheim, Germany

Online Labour Markets in the context of Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence

Fabian Braesemann^1,2, Moritz Marpe¹

1: Datenwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft DWG Berlin, Germany; 2: Oxford Internet Institute

Exploring the Effect of ChatGPT on Skill Demand in Germany

Katrin Rickmeier, Mariya Afonina

Bielefeld University, Germany

B:RADICAL – Co-designing online survey questions with children and young people on their understanding and their experiences of respect and disrespect

Dirk Schubotz

Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom

Does Succeeding on Attention Checks Moderate Treatment Effects?

Sebastian Lundmark¹, Jon Krosnick², Lisanne Wichgers³, Matthew Berent⁴

1: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 2: Stanford University, USA; 3: Lisanne Wichgers Consulting; 4: Matt Berent Consulting

Balancing Questionnaire Length and Response Burden: Short and Long-Term Effects in the IAB Job Vacancy Survey

Nicole Gürtzen, Alex Kübis, André Pirralha

IAB, Germany

Encouraging revision of ‘Don’t know’ responses: Comparing delayed and dynamic feedback in Web surveys

Anke Metzler, Stella Czak, Hannah Schwärzel, Marek Fuchs

Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Zooming in: Measuring Respondent´s Reactance and Receptivity to assess the effects of Error-Reducing Strategies in Web Surveys

Stella Czak, Hannah Schwärzel, Anke Metzler, Marek Fuchs

Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Understanding item-nonresponse in open questions with requests for voice responses

Camilla Salvatore¹, Jan Karem Höhne^2,3

1: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 2: German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW); 3: Leibniz University Hannover

Talk, talk, talk - unlocking AI for conversational research

Barbara von Corvin

Human8 Europe, Belgium

Bots in web surveys: Predicting robotic language in open narrative answers

Joshua Claassen¹, Jan Karem Höhne¹, Ruben Bach²

1: DZHW; Leibniz University Hannover; 2: University of Mannheim

Addressing Biases of Sensor Data in Social Science Research: A Data Quality Perspective

Vanessa Lux¹, Lukas Birkenmaier¹, Johannes Breuer¹, Jessica Daikeler¹, Fiona Draxler², Judith Gilsbach^1,3, Julian Kohne^1,4, Frank Mangold¹, Indira Sen^2,5, Henning Silber⁶, Katrin Weller^1,7, Mareike Wieland¹

1: GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany; 2: University of Mannheim, Germany; 3: University of Konstanz, Germany; 4: Ulm University, Germany; 5: RWTH Aachen, Germany; 6: University of Michigan, USA; 7: University of Düsseldorf, Germany

Improving the measurement of solidarity in the European context: results from a web probing in four countries

Vera Lomazzi, Margherita Pellegrino

University of Bergamo

Dancing with Data: Understanding Gender Representation Among Viral TikTok Content

Dorian Tsolak

Bielefeld University, Germany

Beyond Binary Bytes: Mapping the Evolution of Gender Inclusive Language on Twitter

Dorian Tsolak^1,2, Simon Kühne¹, Stefan Knauff^1,2, H. Long Nguyen^2,3, Dominik Hansen¹

1: Bielefeld University, Germany; 2: Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology; 3: DeZIM Institute

Romance Dawn: Investigating the dynamics of collaboration in a cultural producer community on YouTube

Pavel Dimitrov Chachev¹, Marcel Kappes²

1: Social Monitor, Romania; 2: University of Mannheim

Where is Everybody? Measuring Semantic Source Position and Creating Online Discourse Typologies from Co-Occurrence Networks

Dan Sultanescu, Pavel Dimitrov Chachev, Dana C. Sultanescu

Social Monitor, Romania

Do machine learning techniques improve nonresponse weighting?

Barbara Felderer, Björn Rohr, Christian Bruch

GESIS, Germany

Company Nonresponse in Gender Inequality Surveys: Challenges in Participation and Implications for Data Quality

Elena Ferrari¹, Margherita Pellegrino², Vera Lomazzi², Flavia Pesce¹

1: ARS - Associazione per la ricerca sociale; 2: University of Bergamo

Reasons for participating in (non)probability online panels and how to ask about it

Tanja Kunz, Irina Bauer

GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

A deeper look into education bias in web surveys

Mustafa Coban¹, Christine Distler², Mark Trappmann³

1: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany; 2: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany; 3: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany

Bots in web survey interviews: a showcase

Jan Karem Höhne¹, Joshua Claassen¹, Saijal Shahania², David Broneske²

1: DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany; 2: DZHW, University of Magdeburg

Bringing the Lab Online: Device Effects in Psychological Bias Testing in Online Surveys

Elli Zey¹, Iniobong Essien², Stefanie Hechler^1,3, Susanne Veit¹

1: DeZIM Institut, Germany; 2: Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany; 3: FU Berlin, Germany

Using AI avatars in online surveys. The effect of the gender of the avatar

Adam Stefkovics¹, András Pavalacs²

1: HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary; 2: Századvég Foundation

The COVID-19 Health Behaviour Survey: A Cross-National Survey Conducted via Facebook

Daniela Perrotta

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany

Estimating Fertility Indicators in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from a Network Reporting Online Survey in Senegal

Jessica Donzowa^1,2, Daniela Perrotta¹, Dennis Feehan³, Emilio Zagheni¹

1: Max Planck Institute für demographische Forschung, Germany; 2: Bielefeld University, Germany; 3: University of California, Berkeley, USA

Should We Be Worried? The Impact of Problematic Responses on Social Media Surveys

Zaza Zindel^1,2

1: German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM); 2: Bielefeld University, Germany

Optimizing Social Media Recruitment: Balancing Costs and Sample Quality in Non-Probabilistic Panels

Jessica Daikeler, Joachim Piepenburg, Bernd Weiss

GESIS, Germany

CAPI, or not CAPI – That Is the Question: Using Administratative Data to Assign the Optimal Mode for Maximizing Response-Rates in a Household Panel

Patrick Lazarevic, Marc Plate

Statistik Austria, Austria

The Framework of Survey Behaviour: An Extension of the Framework for Web Survey Participation

Jeldrik Bakker, Jonas Klingwort, Vera Toepoel

Statistics Netherlands

Survey design features that matter: A meta-analysis using official statistics surveys of the Netherlands

Jeldrik Bakker, Jonas Klingwort, Vera Toepoel

Statistics Netherlands

The effect of personalized feedback on participant behavior in data collection: Using paradata to understand participation rates and participant engagement in app-based data collection

Thijs Cornelis Carrière¹, Bella Struminskaya¹, Barry Schouten^1,2

1: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 2: Statistics Netherlands

A Recipe to Handle Receipts? Usability-testing the Receipt Scanning Function of an App-based Household Budget Diary

Lasse Häufglöckner, Johannes Volk

Federal Statistical Office Germany (Destatis), Germany

How many diary days? Smart surveys can help to reduce burden and costs of data collection for behavioural statistics

Danielle Remmerswaal^1,2, Barry Schouten^1,2, Bella Struminskaya¹

1: Utrecht University, Netherlands, The; 2: Statistics Netherlands

I want YOU for this survey! Text interventions in email reminders to increase response rates in web surveys

Freja Wessman, Anders Carlander

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

The effects of using digital mailbox reminders

Julia Bergquist, Sebastian Lundmark, Cornelia Andersson, Klara Persson

The SOM Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Can Targeted Appeals Win Over Late Respondents in a Business Web Surveys?

Ellen Laupper^1,2, Ulf-Dietrich Reips²

1: Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET, Switzerland; 2: Konstanz University, Germany