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Professor Peter Lynn

Professor of Survey Methodology
BSc London, MSc Sheffield Hallam, PhD Essex

Peter Lynn

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Peter Lynn
Institute for Social and Economic Research
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Tel: 01206 874809
Fax: 01206 873151
Room: 2N2.5A.03

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Research Interests

Research on all aspects of quantitative survey methodology, including sampling, weighting and estimation, non-response, response maximisation techniques, mode effects, measurement errors. Also, frameworks and standards for survey quality. Peter is Principal Investigator of The Survey Resources Network (http://surveynet.ac.uk).

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. The Potential of a Multi-mode Data Collection Design to Reduce non-response bias. The Case of a Survey of Employers
      Emanuela Sala , Peter Lynn

    published in Quality and Quantity, edition: 1, vol:43, 2009
  2. Respondent Incentives in a Multi-Mode Panel Survey: Cumulative Effects on Non-Response and Bias
      Annette Jäckle , Peter Lynn

    published in Survey Methodology, edition: 1, vol:34, 105 - 117, 2008
  3. The Feasibility of Linking Household Survey and Administrative Record Data: New Evidence for Britain
      Stephen Jenkins , Peter Lynn , Annette Jäckle , Emanuela Sala

    published in International Journal of Social Research Methodology, edition: 1, vol:11, 29 - 43, 2008
  4. Dependent Interviewing and Seam Effects in Work History Data
      Annette Jäckle , Peter Lynn

    published in Journal of Official Statistics, edition: 4, vol:23, 529 - 552, 2007
  5. Methods for Achieving Equivalence of Samples in Cross-National Surveys
      Peter Lynn , Sabine Haeder , Siegfried Gabler , Seppo Laaksonen

    published in Journal of Official Statistics, edition: 1, vol:23, 107 - 124, 2007
  6. Methodology in Our Madness
      Peter Lynn

    published in Survey Research Methods, edition: 1, vol:1, 1 - 3, 2007
  7. Causes of Mode Effects: Separating out Interviewer and Stimulus Effects in Comparisons of Face-to-Face and Telephone Surveys
      Caroline Roberts , Annette Jäckle , Peter Lynn

    published in Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association, 2007
  8. Measuring Change in Employment Characteristics: the effects of dependent interviewing
      Emanuela Sala , Peter Lynn

    published in International Journal of Public Opinion Research , edition: 4, vol:18, 500 - 509, 2006
  9. The Effects of Dependent Interviewing on Responses to Questions on Income Sources
      Peter Lynn , Annette Jäckle , Emanuela Sala , Stephen Jenkins

    published in Journal of Official Statistics, edition: 3, vol:22, 357 - 384, 2006
  10. Patterns of Consent: evidence from a general household survey
      Stephen Jenkins , Lorenzo Cappellari , Peter Lynn , Annette Jäckle , Emanuela Sala

    published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), edition: 4, vol:169, 701 - 722, 2006
  11. Design Effects for Multiple Design Samples
      Peter Lynn , Siegfried Gabler , Sabine Haeder

    published in Survey Methodology, edition: 1, vol:32, 115 - 120, 2006
  12. The Long-Term Effectiveness of Refusal Conversion Procedures on Longitudinal Surveys
      Jonathan Burton , Heather Laurie , Peter Lynn

    published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), edition: 3, vol:169, 459 - 478, 2006
  13. Attrition and Non-response
      Peter Lynn

    published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), edition: 3, vol:169, 393 - 394, 2006
  14. Review of Sampling (Second Edition) by Steven K. Thompson
      Peter Lynn

    published in Statistical Methods in Medical Research, vol:14, 528 - 529, 2005
  15. Approximations to b* in the Prediction of Design Effects due to Clustering
      Peter Lynn , Siegfried Gabler

    published in Survey Methodology, edition: 1, vol:31, 101 - 104, 2005
  16. Validating Survey Data: Experiences using Employer Records and Government Benefit (Transfer) Data in the UK
      Annette Jäckle , Emanuela Sala , Peter Lynn , Stephen Jenkins

    published in Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association, vol:2004, 4802 - 4809, 2005
  17. In the Long Run: lessons from a panel survey respondent incentive experiment
      Annette Jäckle , Peter Lynn

    published in Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association, vol:2004, 4794 - 4801, 2005
  18. Measuring and Communicating Survey Quality
      Peter Lynn

    published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), edition: 4, vol:167, 575 - 577, 2004
  19. Development of a Sampling Method for Household Surveys in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
      Peter Lynn

    published in Statistics in Transition, edition: 6, vol:6, 953 - 977, 2004
  20. Developing Quality Standards for Cross-National Survey Research: five approaches
      Peter Lynn

    published in International Journal of Social Research Methodology, edition: 4, vol:6, 323 - 336, 2003
  21. PEDAKSI: Methodology for Collecting Data about Survey Non-respondents
      Peter Lynn

    published in Quality and Quantity, vol:37, 239 - 261, 2003
  22. Towards Standardisation of Survey Outcome Categories and Response Rate Calculations
      Peter Lynn , Roeland Beerten , Johanna Laiho , Jean Martin

    published in Research in Official Statistics, edition: 1, vol:2002, 61 - 84, 2003
  23. Separating Refusal Bias and Non-Contact Bias: evidence from UK national surveys
      Peter Lynn , Paul Clarke

    published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician), edition: 3, vol:51, 319 - 333, 2002
  24. Random Digit Dialling in the UK: viability revisited
      Gerry Nicolaas , Peter Lynn

    published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), edition: 2, vol:165, 297 - 316, 2002
  25. The Impact of Incentives on Response Rates to Personal Interview Surveys: role and perceptions of interviewers
      Peter Lynn

    published in International Journal of Public Opinion Research , edition: 3, vol:13, 326 - 337, 2001

    Non-Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Pure Imputation for Statistical Surveys
      Peter Lynn

    published in Journal of Obnoxious Statistics, edition: 1, vol:1, 72 - 75, 2005
  2. The Use of Substitution in Surveys
      Peter Lynn

    published in The Survey Statistician, edition: 49, 14 - 15, 2004

Book Chapters

  1. The Use of Respondent Incentives on Longitudinal Surveys
      Heather Laurie , Peter Lynn

    in Peter Lynn Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys , John Wiley, chapter 12, 205-233, 2009
  2. Methods for Longitudinal Surveys
      Peter Lynn

    in Peter Lynn Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys , John Wiley, chapter 1, 1-15, 2009
  3. Sample Design for Longitudinal Surveys
      Peter Lynn , Paul Smith , Dave Elliot

    in Peter Lynn Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys , John Wiley, chapter 2, 21-33, 2009
  4. The Problem of Nonresponse
      Peter Lynn

    in Edith deLeeuw , Joop Hox , Don Dillman The International Handbook of Survey Methodology , Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, chapter 3, 35-55, 2008
  5. How Representative can a Multi-Nation Survey be?
      Sabine Haeder , Peter Lynn

    in Roger Jowell , Caroline Roberts , Rory FitzGerald , Gillian Eva Measuring Attitudes Cross-Nationally: lessons from the European Social Survey , Sage Publications, chapter 2, 33-52, 2007
  6. What's Special about Cross-National Surveys?
      Peter Lynn , Lars Lyberg , Lilli Japec

    in Janet Harkness Conducting Cross-National and Cross-Cultural Surveys , German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS), chapter 1, 7-20, 2006
  7. Weighting
      Peter Lynn

    in Kimberly Kempf-Leonard Encyclopedia of Social Measurement , Academic Press, 967-974, 2004
  8. Sampling Error
      Peter Lynn

    in Michael Lewis-Beck , Alan Bryman , Tim Liao Encyclopedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences , Sage Publications, 2004
  9. Systematic Sampling
      Peter Lynn

    in Michael Lewis-Beck , Alan Bryman , Tim Liao Encyclopedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences , Sage Publications, 2004
  10. Sampling Distribution
      Peter Lynn

    in Michael Lewis-Beck , Alan Bryman , Tim Liao Encyclopedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences , Sage Publications, 2004
  11. Multistage Sampling
      Peter Lynn

    in Michael Lewis-Beck , Alan Bryman , Tim Liao Encyclopedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences , Sage Publications, 2004
  12. Attrition
      Peter Lynn

    in Michael Lewis-Beck , Alan Bryman , Tim Liao Encyclopedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences , Sage Publications, 2004
  13. Design Effects
      Peter Lynn

    in Michael Lewis-Beck , Alan Bryman , Tim Liao Encyclopedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences , Sage Publications, 2004
  14. Simple Random Sampling
      Peter Lynn

    in Michael Lewis-Beck , Alan Bryman , Tim Liao Encyclopedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences , Sage Publications, 2004
  15. Random Sampling
      Peter Lynn

    in Michael Lewis-Beck , Alan Bryman , Tim Liao Encyclopedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences , Sage Publications, 2004
  16. Show Card
      Peter Lynn

    in Michael Lewis-Beck , Alan Bryman , Tim Liao Encyclopedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences , Sage Publications, 2004
  17. Stratified Sample
      Peter Lynn

    in Michael Lewis-Beck , Alan Bryman , Tim Liao Encyclopedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences , Sage Publications, 2004
  18. Principles of Sampling
      Peter Lynn

    in Tony Greenfield Research Methods for Postgraduates (2nd edition) , Arnold, chapter 23, 185-195, 2002
  19. Sampling in Human Studies
      Peter Lynn

    in Tony Greenfield Research Methods for Postgraduates (2nd edition) , Arnold, chapter 24, 195-202, 2002
  20. The Effects of Extended Interviewer Efforts on Nonresponse Bias
      Peter Lynn , Paul Clarke , Jean Martin , Patrick Sturgis

    in Robert Groves , Don Dillman , John Eltinge , Rod Little Survey Nonresponse , John Wiley, chapter 9, 135-148, 2002

Authored Books

    1. Kevin Pickering , Suzanne Fitzpatrick , Kerstin Hinds , Peter Lynn , Sarah Tipping
    Tracking Homelessness: a feasibility study, Scottish Executive , ISBN: 0-7559-3523-3 2003

Edited Books

    1. Peter Lynn
    Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys, John Wiley, ISBN: 978-0-470-01871-2, 2009

Iser working papers

  1. WP2009-07 "It is time computers do clever things!" The impact of dependent interviewing on interviewer burden
    1. Emanuela Sala
      2. ,
    2. S.C. Noah Uhrig
      3. ,
    3. Peter Lynn
    2009
  2. WP2008-42 The Use of Respondent Incentives on Longitudinal Surveys
    1. Heather Laurie
      2. ,
    2. Peter Lynn
    2008
  3. WP2008-19 The Development and Implementation of a Coding Scheme to Analyse Interview Dynamics in the British Household Panel Survey
    1. Emanuela Sala
      2. ,
    2. S.C. Noah Uhrig
      3. ,
    3. Peter Lynn
    2008
  4. WP2008-08 Assessing the Effect of Data Collection Mode on Measurement
    1. Annette Jäckle
      2. ,
    2. Caroline Roberts
      3. ,
    3. Peter Lynn
    2008
  5. WP2008-01 Understanding Cross-National Differences in Unit Non-Response: The Role of Contact Data
    1. Annelies Blom
      2. ,
    2. Peter Lynn
      3. ,
    3. Annette Jäckle
      4. ,
    2008
  6. WP2007-01 Respondent Incentives in a Multi-Mode Panel Survey: Cumulative Effects on Non-Response and Bias
    1. Annette Jäckle
      2. ,
    2. Peter Lynn
    2007
  7. WP2006-41 Telephone versus Face-to-Face Interviewing: Mode Effects on Data Quality and Likely Causes (Report on Phase II of the ESS-Gallup Mixed Mode Methodology Project)
    1. Annette Jäckle
      2. ,
    2. Caroline Roberts
      3. ,
    3. Peter Lynn
    2006
  8. WP2005-29 A Review of Methodological Research Pertinent to Longitudinal Survey Design and Data Collection
    1. Peter Lynn
      2. ,
    2. Nick Buck
      3. ,
    3. Annette Jäckle
      4. ,
    4. Heather Laurie
      5. ,
    5. Jonathan Burton
    2005
  9. WP2005-16 The Impact of a Mixed Mode Data Collection Design on Non-Response Bias on a Business Survey
    1. Emanuela Sala
      2. ,
    2. Peter Lynn
    2005
  10. WP2005-12 Design Effects for Multiple Design Samples
    1. Peter Lynn
      2. ,
    2. Siegfried Gabler
      3. ,
    3. Sabine Haeder
    2005
  11. WP2004-28 The Impact of Interviewing Method On Measurement Error in Panel Survey Measures of Benefit Receipt: evidence from a validation study
    1. Peter Lynn
      2. ,
    2. Annette Jäckle
      3. ,
    3. Emanuela Sala
      4. ,
    4. Stephen Jenkins
    2004
  12. WP2004-26 Measuring Change in Employment Characteristics: the effects of dependent interviewing
    1. Emanuela Sala
      2. ,
    2. Peter Lynn
    2004
  13. WP2004-27 Patterns of Consent: evidence from a general household survey
    1. Stephen Jenkins
      2. ,
    2. Lorenzo Cappellari
      3. ,
    3. Peter Lynn
      4. ,
    4. Annette Jäckle
      5. ,
    5. Emanuela Sala
    2004
  14. WP2004-24 Dependent Interviewing and Seam Effects in Work History Data
    1. Annette Jäckle
      2. ,
    2. Peter Lynn
    2004
  15. WP2004-23 Linking Household Survey and Administrative Record Data: what should the matching variables be?
    1. Stephen Jenkins
      2. ,
    2. Peter Lynn
      3. ,
    3. Annette Jäckle
      4. ,
    4. Emanuela Sala
    2004
  16. WP2004-16 The Effects of Dependent Interviewing on Responses to Questions on Income Sources
    1. Peter Lynn
      2. ,
    2. Annette Jäckle
      3. ,
    3. Emanuela Sala
      4. ,
    4. Stephen Jenkins
    2004
  17. WP2004-14 Validation of Survey Data on Income and Employment: The ISMIE Experience
    1. Annette Jäckle
      2. ,
    2. Emanuela Sala
      3. ,
    3. Stephen Jenkins
      4. ,
    4. Peter Lynn
    2004
  18. WP2004-12 The Contact and Response Process in Business Surveys: lessons from a multimode survey of employers in the UK
    1. Peter Lynn
      2. ,
    2. Emanuela Sala
    2004
  19. WP2004-11 The Long-Term Effectiveness of Refusal Conversion Procedures on Longitudinal Surveys
    1. Jonathan Burton
      2. ,
    2. Heather Laurie
      3. ,
    3. Peter Lynn
    2004
  20. WP2004-09 Methods for Achieving Equivalence of Samples in Cross-National Surveys
    1. Peter Lynn
      2. ,
    2. Sabine Haeder
      3. ,
    3. Siegfried Gabler
      4. ,
    4. Seppo Laaksonen
    2004
  21. WP2004-07 Approximations to b* in the Prediction of Design Effects due to Clustering
    1. Peter Lynn
      2. ,
    2. Siegfried Gabler
    2004
  22. WP2003-26 Development of a Sampling Method for Household Surveys in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
    1. Peter Lynn
    2003
  23. WP2002-05 PEDAKSI: Methodology for Collecting Data about Survey Non-respondents
    1. Peter Lynn
    2002
  24. WP2001-24 Separating Refusal Bias and Non-Contact Bias: evidence from UK national surveys
    1. Peter Lynn
      2. ,
    2. Paul Clarke
    2001
  25. WP2001-23 Recommended Standard Final Outcome Categories and Standard Definitions of Response Rate for Social Surveys
    1. Peter Lynn
      2. ,
    2. Roeland Beerten
      3. ,
    3. Johanna Laiho
      4. ,
    4. Jean Martin
    2001
  26. WP2001-21 Developing Quality Standards for Cross-National Survey Research: five approaches
    1. Peter Lynn
    2001

Datasets

    1. Stephen Jenkins , Peter Lynn
    Improving Survey Measurement of Income and Employment (ISMIE), 2001-2003, UK Data Archive, Colchester: University of Essex , United Kingdom
    2. Peter Lynn , Annette Jäckle , Emanuela Sala
    Improving survey measurement of income and employment (ISMIE), Institute for Social and Economic Research, Colchester: University of Essex , United Kingdom
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