Date/Time
Date(s) - 24/09/2025
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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IASS Webinar 56: Targeted Designs to Address Survey Nonresponse
Speaker: Peter Lynn
Professor of Survey Methodology, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Wednesday, September 24th 2025 at 2pm – 3:30pm (CET)
All are invited to the webinar, organised by the International Association of Survey Statisticians.
Please register for the IASS Webinar at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2917569835323/WN_9X9SIFl-TvSsVqPuLjX2zA#/registration
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. There will be time for questions. The webinar will be recorded and made available on the IASS and ISI web site. See below for the abstract and biography of the speakers.
Webinar Abstract
For many years, research into data collection techniques to reduce nonresponse, or reduce nonresponse bias, was primarily concerned with main effects. Promising techniques were subsequently applied to the whole sample in a standardised way. Recent years have seen increased focus on the heterogeneity of effects and consequent interest in how such heterogeneity can best be incorporated into survey design. Targeted designs are those where survey features differ between sample subgroups in ways intended to improve the relationship between survey costs and survey (nonresponse) error. They differ from dynamic adaptive designs in that the features applicable to each subgroup are identified in advance and do not change during the course of fieldwork. The webinar will give an overview of key considerations in the application of targeted design features and a summary of research findings regarding the effects of targeted designs.
Biography
Peter Lynn is Professor of Survey Methodology at the University of Essex, UK. He has worked in the field of sample surveys for 38 years and his research focuses on survey sampling and data collection methods. He has authored 78 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 35 book chapters and 5 edited volumes, including the Wiley books “Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys” (2009) and “Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methods” (2021). Peter was founding editor of the journal “Survey Research Methods”, was co-founder of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) and was a member of the committee that drew up the blueprint for the European Social Survey (ESS), for which he is Chair of the Sampling and Weighting Panel. He was President of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) and is currently Director of Survey Futures (www.surveyfutures.net), a cross-sector UK-based initiative to secure the future of social survey data collection by establishing and promoting good and sustainable practice.