ISER’s Professor Peter Lynn will be a keynote speaker at the 2013 Swiss International
Conference of Panel Data Users in Lausanne.
Peter Lynn is Professor of Survey Methodology at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, specializing in research on all aspects of quantitative survey methodology, including sampling, weighting and estimation, non-response, response maximisation techniques, mode effects, measurement errors.
The 7th International Conference of Panel Data Users in Switzerland will take place on February 14 and 15 2013 at the University of Lausanne. Sessions will be dedicated to the following topics: health and quality of life, labour market, inequality and poverty, family and gender, politics and attitudes, life course analysis, ethnic minorities and survey methodology.
The second keynote speaker will be Jennifer Fitzgerald (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), a specialist in comparative political behaviour. Much of Jennifer’s work is based on longitudinal data and examines the effects of social ties and local contexts on political attitudes and vote choice in advanced democratic societies.