A number of ground-breaking methodological experiments will be carried out on the 2010 wave of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel. The experiments were chosen in July by a panel of judges from proposals received in response to an open call earlier this year. Suggestions were received from around the globe as well as from UK academic and government researchers.
The issues addressed by the experiments will include procedures for setting up appointments for interviews, questioning methods for obtaining accurate measures of change, the use of branched or unbranched scale questions, panel conditioning and the effects of reverting from telephone to face-to-face interviewing.
The results will contribute to the ongoing programme of methodological research and development associated with Understanding Society.