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Survey Futures Working Paper Series

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Experimental evidence on the effect of mixed-mode survey designs on item measurement and variable correlations
  1. Liam Wright
  2. Georgia D. Tomova
  3. Matt Brown
  4. Konstantinos Tsigaridis
  5. Morag Henderson
    6. , et al
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 27 - August 1, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology

Within-household clustering of attitudes and implications for survey sample design when only address-based frames are available
  1. Nhlanhla Ndebele
  2. Peter Lynn
  3. Rory Fitzgerald
  4. Ruxandra Comanaru
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 26 - July 31, 2026 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Social Attitudes

Evaluating a respondent-led look-up tool for occupation coding: evidence on feasibility, validity, and reliability
  1. Helena Koerber
  2. Matt Brown
  3. Lisa Calderwood
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 25 - July 30, 2026 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology

Industry and occupation coding: a comparison of office-based coding and a closed-list approach
  1. Cristian Domarchi
  2. Matt Brown
  3. Olga Maslovskaya
  4. Lisa Calderwood
  5. Curtis Jessop
    6. , et al
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 24 - July 29, 2026 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology

How often does the ‘wrong’ person complete the questionnaire in self-completion surveys with named samples? Cross national evidence from the European Social Survey and Generations and Gender Survey
  1. Peter Lynn
  2. Olga Maslovskaya
  3. Karolina Kudzia
  4. Cristian Domarchi
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 23 - July 18, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology

Survey question evaluation at scale: applying large language models to the QAS-99
  1. Caroline Roberts
  2. Patrick Sturgis
  3. Alice McGee
  4. Rebecca Hamlyn
  5. Mayca Minichino
    6. , et al
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 22 - July 17, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Computing

Methods for within-household selection in self-administered push-to-web surveys: an experimental comparison
  1. Nathan Reece
  2. Peter Lynn
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 21 - July 7, 2026 - download  
  1. Households
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology

Do the effects of interviewer administered follow-ups of web non-respondents on dataset quality differ between overall datasets and population subgroup datasets?
  1. Jamie Moore
  2. Gabriele Durrant
  3. Pablo Cabrera Alvarez
  4. Annette Jäckle
  5. Peter W.F. Smith
    6. , et al
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 20 - June 22, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Demography

When, and how much, might effect estimates be biased when analysing mixed mode survey data? The roles of mode effects, mode selection, and mode split
  1. Georgia D. Tomova
  2. Richard J. Silverwood
  3. Liam Wright
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 19 - June 16, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology

Assessment of a knock-to-nudge recruitment strategy to improve participation in a telephone survey: evidence from the National Survey for Wales
  1. Olga Maslovskaya
  2. Cristian Domarchi
  3. Peter W.F. Smith
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 18 - June 15, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology

Enhanced sampling frames: a literature review
  1. Anna Keyes
  2. Paul A. Smith
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 17 - May 15, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Demography

Video interviewing in the European Social Survey: a post-pandemic view
  1. Helena Koerber
  2. Tim Hanson
  3. Matt Brown
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 16 - April 25, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Information And Communication Technologies

LLMs for survey pretesting: how well can large language models identify flaws in survey questions?
  1. Patrick Sturgis
  2. Caroline Roberts
  3. Thomas Robinson
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 15 - April 15, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Computing

Targeted response inducement strategies for self-completion surveys with address-based sample frames
  1. Viktor Sladka
  2. Peter Lynn
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 14 - April 10, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology

SOCbot: using large language models to measure and classify occupations in surveys
  1. Patrick Sturgis
  2. Thomas S. Robinson
  3. Laura Fung
  4. Caroline Roberts
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 13 - April 1, 2026 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Computing

Mode effects on survey item measurement: a systematic review of the experimental evidence
  1. Georgia D. Tomova
  2. Richard J. Silverwood
  3. Liam Wright
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 12 - January 15, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology

Measurement mode effects in live video interviewing: evidence from a mixed-mode quasi-experimental survey
  1. Sebastian Kocar
  2. Matt Brown
  3. Carole Sanchez
  4. George B. Ploubidis
  5. Gabriele Durrant
    6. , et al
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 11 - December 15, 2025 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Information And Communication Technologies

Effectiveness of the knock-to-nudge approach for establishing contact with the respondents: evidence from the National Readership Survey in the UK
  1. Olga Maslovskaya
  2. Cristian Domarchi
  3. Peter W.F. Smith
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 10 - November 28, 2025 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology

Can the continuum of resistance model be applied to understand mode selection in sequential mixed-mode surveys?
  1. Liam Wright
  2. Georgia Tomova
  3. Richard J. Silverwood
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 9 - November 25, 2025 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology

Assessing the impact of video interviewing on measurement quality: evidence from an experimental study on mode effects
  1. Marc Asensio
  2. Matt Brown
  3. Richard Silverwood
  4. Tim Hanson
  5. Gabriele Durrant
    6. , et al
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 8 - November 12, 2025 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology

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