Project Overview



TESTING RESPONDENT-DRIVEN SAMPLING (RDS) TO SAMPLE SPECIAL POPULATIONS
SURVEY NETWORK DATA QUALITY
DOUBLE ROBUST ESTIMATION WITH MISSING VALUES
CONTEMPORANEOUS AGGREGATION OF TIME SERIES DATA
MEASUREMENT OF POLICY POSITIONS USING UNFOLDING ITEM RESPONSE MODELS
 

Former Projects

BUSINESS SURVEY: this research area analyzes the quality of business surveys and evaluates the data used for economic forecasting
CEO NET: this research area analyses social networks of German CEOs and merges data of various sources via record-linkage in a longitudinal dataset
DE PERS: this research area focuses on the contamination of data structures caused by factual anonymization of individual data and its consequences for social and economic research
FACTORIAL SURVEY: this research area evaluates the conditions to use the factorial survey - a method for studying beliefs and judgements
LETS: this research area analyzes ego-centric networks of the participants in Local Exchange Trading Systems
QDDS: this joint project with Social Science Information Centre (IZ, Bonn) develops programs for systematic documentation of questionnaires
SAFELINK: this research area investigates options for linking personal data considering data privacy