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Geert Loosveldt

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ID167057
NAMEGeert Loosveldt
GIVEN NAMESGeert
FAMILY NAMELoosveldt
SIGNATURELOOSVELDT G
AFFILIATIONSKU Leuven
ORCID0000-0001-7261-8991
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS146
WORKS AS AUTHOR29
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7
  • Michael A. Bailey. Polling at a Crossroads

    Open Access•Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2025•References: 1

    Michael A. Bailey wrote an interesting book addressing a current issue in survey methodology. While the subtitle, “Rethinking Modern Survey Research,” suggests a broad exploration of survey research design and implementation, the primary focus is on (non)ignorable nonresponse. The book ambitiously aims to construct “... a polling paradigm that accounts for ignorable (the nonresponse that weighting can fix) and nonignorable nonresponse (the nonres…

  • Do Interviewer Assessments of Respondents’ Performance Accurately Reflect Response Behavior

    Open Access•Laura Jacobs, Geert Loosveldt et al.•ARTICLE•CAM•2020•References: 20

    A growing body of literature points to the possibilities offered by postsurvey interviewer observations as a source of paradata to obtain insights into data quality. However, their utility in predicting actual behavior of respondents has attracted limited scholarly attention so far. Using data from Round 7 of the European Social Survey, we aim to clarify the relationship between interviewer observations and response styles (straightlining, item n…

  • The Evaluation of Statistical Process Control Methods to Monitor Interview Duration During Survey Data Collection

    Open Access•Jiayun Jin, Caroline Vandenplas et al.•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2019

    Despite general agreement regarding the usefulness of statistical process control (SPC) tools for monitoring paradata, using SPC from an early phase of the survey fieldwork is rather rare. This study focuses on one type of paradata—interview duration—to fill this void. First, we establish a procedure based on the idea of enabling fieldwork monitoring for the seventh round of the European Social Survey in Belgium from its start. The impact of resp…

  • Interviewer Effects Among Older Respondents in the European Social Survey

    Open Access•Koen Beullens, Geert Loosveldt et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    The proportion of elderly people in general population samples is increasing. Therefore, it is becoming more important to pay special attention to older respondents when assessing the quality of data. The main hypothesis of the current article is that interviewer effects are higher in the older age-group. We use data collected in 13 countries during Round 7 of the European Social Survey. The results support the supposition that older respondents …

  • The effect of sociodemographic (mis)match between interviewers and respondents on unit and item nonresponse in Belgium

    Open Access•Anina Vercruyssen, Celine Wuyts et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 27

  • The Interviewer in the Respondent's Shoes

    Open Access•Celine Wuyts, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•CAM•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    Previous research shows that interviewers to some extent fail to expend the effort that is needed to collect high-quality survey data. We extend the idea of interviewer satisficing to a related task, in which the interviewers themselves answer survey questions. We hypothesize that interviewers who self-administer the questionnaire in a careless manner will also not apply themselves fully to the task of administering survey interviews. Based on in…

  • Face-to-Face Interviews

    Geert Loosveldt•CHAPTER•International Handbook of Survey…•2015

  • A Procedure to Assess Interviewer Effects on Nonresponse Bias

    Open Access•Geert Loosveldt, Koen Beullens•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2014

    It is generally accepted that interviewers have a considerable effect on survey response. The difference between response success and failure does not only affect the response rate, but can also influence the composition of the realized sample or respondent set, and consequently introduce nonresponse bias. To measure these two different aspects of the obtained sample, response propensities will be used. They have an aggregate mean and variance th…

  • Evaluating Relative Mode Effects in Mixed-Mode Surveys

    Open Access•Jorre T A Vannieuwenhuyze, Jorre Vannieuwenhuyze et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Methods & Research•2013•Cited by: 9•References: 25

    In order to investigate the advantage of mixed-mode (MM) surveys, selection effects between the modes should be evaluated. Selection effects refer to differences in respondent compositions on the target variables between the modes. However, estimation of selection effects is not an easy task because they may be completely confounded with measurement effects between the modes (differences in measurement error). Publications concerning the estimati…

  • The impact of respondents and interviewers on interview speed in face-to-face interviews

    Geert Loosveldt, Koen Beullens•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 4

  • Impact of Poll Results on Personal Opinions and Perceptions of Collective Opinion

    Nathalie Sonck, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2010•Cited by: 18•References: 11

    Whether, and to what degree, the publication of poll results might influence the opinions of the public is a much-debated subject. While many effect-studies of polls have looked at the voting context, this study is an empirical investigation into the effects of poll information on personal opinions and perceptions of collective opinion on five nonelectoral, though politically relevant issues (independence of the Flemish region in Belgium, retirem…

  • A Method for Evaluating Mode Effects in Mixed-mode Surveys

    Jorre Vannieuwenhuyze, Geert Loosveldt et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2010•Cited by: 22•References: 10

    Survey designs in which data from different groups of respondents are collected by different survey modes have become increasingly popular. However, such mixed-mode (MM) designs lead to a confounding of selection effects and measurement effects (measurement error) caused by mode differences. Consequently, MM data have poor quality. Nevertheless, comparing MM data with data from a comparable single-mode survey allows researchers to measure selecti…

  • Explaining the intention to participate in a web survey

    Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    Even though web surveys have become increasingly popular, considerable efforts are necessary to obtain acceptable response rates. This explains the proliferation of experiments aimed at improving levels of participation in web surveys. The current study is not aimed at increasing web survey response by means of experimental research, but instead uses a general psychological theory to explain web survey response. More specifically, the theory of p…

  • Measuring Public Opinions About Surveys

    Geert Loosveldt, Vicky Storms•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 7

    Respondent's opinions about survey research are regarded as an expression at the individual level of the general survey-taking climate. Based on a review of the research about ‘surveys on surveys’ five relevant dimensions of the respondent's opinion about surveys are distinguished: survey enjoyment, survey value, survey cost, survey reliability, and survey privacy. Items related to these aspects are used to develop an ‘Opinions about Survey Scale…

  • Research Note

    Open Access•Nathalie Sonck, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    ■ By widely disseminating news reports about opinion poll results, news media give politicians and citizens a particular indication of people's opinions. Problems arise when journalistic statements are based on opinion polls that do not conform to methodological standards or when a `biased' image of `public opinion' is published. In order to study the intertwined relationship between news media, opinion polling and public opinion, it has to be un…

  • Personalizing E-mail Contacts

    Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2006•Cited by: 6•References: 4

    improves response to web surveys, but concerns have been raised and subtle indications have been found suggesting that personalization might result in more socially desirable responses (Heerwegh et al., ; Heerwegh, ; Joinson, Woodley, & Reips, ). The current study provides a stronger test of the hypothesis that personalization would induce social desirability bias, and secondarily provides an additional test of the effect of personalization on we…

  • The effect of personalization on response rates and data quality in web surveys

    Dirk Heerwegh, Tim Vanhove et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2005•Cited by: 12•References: 9

    Personalizing correspondence has often shown to significantly increase survey response rates in mail surveys. This study experimentally tests whether personalization of email invitations acts correspondingly to web survey response rates. Also, it is investigated whether personalization influences data quality. The results of the study, using a large student sample, show that personalization significantly increases the web survey response rate by …

  • Who Responds to Incentives

    Open Access•Vicky Storms, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•CAM•2004•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    In one year's time, the number of respondents in the Flemish Survey of Cultural Shifts expressing a wish to be paid for participating in surveys doubled (28% in 2002, compared to 14% in 2001). Analyses show this is mainly the result of survey-specific characteristics such as length of the survey, invasion of privacy issues, and cognitive efforts needed to fill in the questionnaire. Person-specific characteristics such as the level of individualis…

  • An Evaluation of the Semiautomatic Login Procedure to Control Web Survey Access

    Open Access•Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2003•Cited by: 4•References: 2

    It is common practice to limit web survey access to individuals in the sample through the use of access codes such as personal identification numbers, user names, and passwords. Different technically equivalent methods exist to control survey access. However, these methods are not necessarily methodologically equivalent. In this study, an experimental design was set up to evaluate the effect of three login procedures: a manual, a semiautomatic, a…

  • Web Surveys

    Open Access•Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2002•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    Web surveys generally use some sort of access control to prevent uninvited respondents from taking part in the survey and to prevent multiple completions by the same (invited) respondent. Restriction of survey access can be accomplished in several technically equivalent ways. However, these methods may not be equivalent from a methodological viewpoint. In this article, an exploration of possible effects of access control mechanisms is undertaken.…

  • An Evaluation of the Effect of Response Formats on Data Quality in Web Surveys

    Open Access•Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2002•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    When designing a web questionnaire, various HTML input elements can be used to register respondents’ answers. Two input elements, radio buttons and drop-down boxes, can be regarded as technically equivalent because they serve the same purpose—both allowing selection of one answer from a list of response options. However, these input elements are dissimilar in many respects, and there is reason to believe that some people are less familiar with dr…

  • The Effects of Interviewer and Respondent Characteristics on Response Behavior in Panel Surveys

    Open Access•JAN PICKERY, Geert Loosveldt et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Methods & Research•2001•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    Unit nonresponse in the second wave of a panel survey is related to several respondent characteristics and to the interviewer of that wave. More striking is the effect of the interviewer of the first wave, who is not involved in the second interview. To analyze both interviewer effects simultaneously, the authors use a multilevel cross-classified model. In that analysis, the effect of the interviewer of the second wave almost disappears. That eff…

  • An Evaluation of a Typology of Respondents With a Multilevel-Multinomial Logit Model

    Open Access•JAN PICKERY, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Sociological…•1999•References: 1

    Une évaluation d'une typologie de répondants avec un modèle logit multiniveau et multinomial. Dans cet article, nous examinons une typologie de répondants à une enquête, basée sur les rapports des interviewers. Dans de tels rapports, l'interviewer évalue la motivation et les capacités des interviewés à répondre aux questions. Dans un article précédent, cette information a été utilisée pour créer une typologie de répondants de trois types. Le prem…

  • An Evaluation of Some Clustering Methods for Mixed Mode Variable Data Sets

    Open Access•Istvan Hajnal, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Sociological…•1998•References: 1

    Une évaluation de certains méthodes classificatoires de données de types dlfférents. La classification d'objets décrits par des variables de types différents nominales, ordinales ou numériques - a toujours posé des problèmes pour les méthodes classificatoires. Cet article présente brièvement certaines méthodes de classifications pour des données de types différents. Ces méthodes comprennent le coefficient de Gower. le coefficient de Kaufman et Ro…

  • Interaction Characteristics of the Difficult-to-Interview Respondent

    Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•1997•Cited by: 4

    When a researcher decides to collect data by means of survey interviews, he or she makes the assumption that all the respondents have sufficient cognitive and communicative skills to execute the respondent's role adequately. In this article we validate the explanation that older and less educated respondents are difficult to interview because they do not have sufficient communicative skills. To determine the respondent's cognitive and communicati…

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  • Improvement of the Quality of Responses to Factual Survey Questions by Interviewer Training

    Jacques B Billiet, Jacques Billiet et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•1988•Cited by: 27

    In this study we analyze the effects of interviewer training on the quality of responses. Data from a field experiment reveal a number of significant differences between trained and untrained interviewers in terms of nonresponse and the amount of information obtained. For some questions, an interaction effect occurred between interviewer training, the use of tape recorders, and the kind of responses. The effects of training appear to be dependent…

  • A Method for Evaluating Mode Effects in Mixed-mode Surveys

    Jorre Vannieuwenhuyze, Geert Loosveldt et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2010•Cited by: 22•References: 10

    Survey designs in which data from different groups of respondents are collected by different survey modes have become increasingly popular. However, such mixed-mode (MM) designs lead to a confounding of selection effects and measurement effects (measurement error) caused by mode differences. Consequently, MM data have poor quality. Nevertheless, comparing MM data with data from a comparable single-mode survey allows researchers to measure selecti…

  • Impact of Poll Results on Personal Opinions and Perceptions of Collective Opinion

    Nathalie Sonck, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2010•Cited by: 18•References: 11

    Whether, and to what degree, the publication of poll results might influence the opinions of the public is a much-debated subject. While many effect-studies of polls have looked at the voting context, this study is an empirical investigation into the effects of poll information on personal opinions and perceptions of collective opinion on five nonelectoral, though politically relevant issues (independence of the Flemish region in Belgium, retirem…

  • The effect of personalization on response rates and data quality in web surveys

    Dirk Heerwegh, Tim Vanhove et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2005•Cited by: 12•References: 9

    Personalizing correspondence has often shown to significantly increase survey response rates in mail surveys. This study experimentally tests whether personalization of email invitations acts correspondingly to web survey response rates. Also, it is investigated whether personalization influences data quality. The results of the study, using a large student sample, show that personalization significantly increases the web survey response rate by …

  • The Effects of Interviewer and Respondent Characteristics on Response Behavior in Panel Surveys

    Open Access•JAN PICKERY, Geert Loosveldt et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Methods & Research•2001•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    Unit nonresponse in the second wave of a panel survey is related to several respondent characteristics and to the interviewer of that wave. More striking is the effect of the interviewer of the first wave, who is not involved in the second interview. To analyze both interviewer effects simultaneously, the authors use a multilevel cross-classified model. In that analysis, the effect of the interviewer of the second wave almost disappears. That eff…

  • Evaluating Relative Mode Effects in Mixed-Mode Surveys

    Open Access•Jorre T A Vannieuwenhuyze, Jorre Vannieuwenhuyze et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Methods & Research•2013•Cited by: 9•References: 25

    In order to investigate the advantage of mixed-mode (MM) surveys, selection effects between the modes should be evaluated. Selection effects refer to differences in respondent compositions on the target variables between the modes. However, estimation of selection effects is not an easy task because they may be completely confounded with measurement effects between the modes (differences in measurement error). Publications concerning the estimati…

  • Measuring Public Opinions About Surveys

    Geert Loosveldt, Vicky Storms•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 7

    Respondent's opinions about survey research are regarded as an expression at the individual level of the general survey-taking climate. Based on a review of the research about ‘surveys on surveys’ five relevant dimensions of the respondent's opinion about surveys are distinguished: survey enjoyment, survey value, survey cost, survey reliability, and survey privacy. Items related to these aspects are used to develop an ‘Opinions about Survey Scale…

  • An Evaluation of the Effect of Response Formats on Data Quality in Web Surveys

    Open Access•Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2002•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    When designing a web questionnaire, various HTML input elements can be used to register respondents’ answers. Two input elements, radio buttons and drop-down boxes, can be regarded as technically equivalent because they serve the same purpose—both allowing selection of one answer from a list of response options. However, these input elements are dissimilar in many respects, and there is reason to believe that some people are less familiar with dr…

  • Personalizing E-mail Contacts

    Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2006•Cited by: 6•References: 4

    improves response to web surveys, but concerns have been raised and subtle indications have been found suggesting that personalization might result in more socially desirable responses (Heerwegh et al., ; Heerwegh, ; Joinson, Woodley, & Reips, ). The current study provides a stronger test of the hypothesis that personalization would induce social desirability bias, and secondarily provides an additional test of the effect of personalization on we…

  • Interviewer Effects Among Older Respondents in the European Social Survey

    Open Access•Koen Beullens, Geert Loosveldt et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    The proportion of elderly people in general population samples is increasing. Therefore, it is becoming more important to pay special attention to older respondents when assessing the quality of data. The main hypothesis of the current article is that interviewer effects are higher in the older age-group. We use data collected in 13 countries during Round 7 of the European Social Survey. The results support the supposition that older respondents …

  • An Evaluation of the Semiautomatic Login Procedure to Control Web Survey Access

    Open Access•Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2003•Cited by: 4•References: 2

    It is common practice to limit web survey access to individuals in the sample through the use of access codes such as personal identification numbers, user names, and passwords. Different technically equivalent methods exist to control survey access. However, these methods are not necessarily methodologically equivalent. In this study, an experimental design was set up to evaluate the effect of three login procedures: a manual, a semiautomatic, a…

  • Interaction Characteristics of the Difficult-to-Interview Respondent

    Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•1997•Cited by: 4

    When a researcher decides to collect data by means of survey interviews, he or she makes the assumption that all the respondents have sufficient cognitive and communicative skills to execute the respondent's role adequately. In this article we validate the explanation that older and less educated respondents are difficult to interview because they do not have sufficient communicative skills. To determine the respondent's cognitive and communicati…

  • Web Surveys

    Open Access•Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2002•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    Web surveys generally use some sort of access control to prevent uninvited respondents from taking part in the survey and to prevent multiple completions by the same (invited) respondent. Restriction of survey access can be accomplished in several technically equivalent ways. However, these methods may not be equivalent from a methodological viewpoint. In this article, an exploration of possible effects of access control mechanisms is undertaken.…

  • The effect of sociodemographic (mis)match between interviewers and respondents on unit and item nonresponse in Belgium

    Open Access•Anina Vercruyssen, Celine Wuyts et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 27

  • The impact of respondents and interviewers on interview speed in face-to-face interviews

    Geert Loosveldt, Koen Beullens•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 4

  • Explaining the intention to participate in a web survey

    Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    Even though web surveys have become increasingly popular, considerable efforts are necessary to obtain acceptable response rates. This explains the proliferation of experiments aimed at improving levels of participation in web surveys. The current study is not aimed at increasing web survey response by means of experimental research, but instead uses a general psychological theory to explain web survey response. More specifically, the theory of p…

  • Research Note

    Open Access•Nathalie Sonck, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    ■ By widely disseminating news reports about opinion poll results, news media give politicians and citizens a particular indication of people's opinions. Problems arise when journalistic statements are based on opinion polls that do not conform to methodological standards or when a `biased' image of `public opinion' is published. In order to study the intertwined relationship between news media, opinion polling and public opinion, it has to be un…

  • The Interviewer in the Respondent's Shoes

    Open Access•Celine Wuyts, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•CAM•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    Previous research shows that interviewers to some extent fail to expend the effort that is needed to collect high-quality survey data. We extend the idea of interviewer satisficing to a related task, in which the interviewers themselves answer survey questions. We hypothesize that interviewers who self-administer the questionnaire in a careless manner will also not apply themselves fully to the task of administering survey interviews. Based on in…

  • Who Responds to Incentives

    Open Access•Vicky Storms, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•CAM•2004•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    In one year's time, the number of respondents in the Flemish Survey of Cultural Shifts expressing a wish to be paid for participating in surveys doubled (28% in 2002, compared to 14% in 2001). Analyses show this is mainly the result of survey-specific characteristics such as length of the survey, invasion of privacy issues, and cognitive efforts needed to fill in the questionnaire. Person-specific characteristics such as the level of individualis…

  • Interaction Characteristics in Some Question-Wording Experiments

    Open Access•Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Sociological…•1997•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    Caractéristique des interactions dans des expériences de l'utilisation des mots dans les questionnaires. Des résultats d'analyses de l'interaction interviewer-répondant sont peu utilisés dans les recherches sur la qualité des données. Avec une analyse d'interaction des entretiens enregistrés sur bande lors d'une expérience sur l'utilisation des mots dans des questionnaires. Il est possible de valider quelqu'unes des explications proposées pour ce…

  • Improvement of the Quality of Responses to Factual Survey Questions by Interviewer Training

    Jacques B Billiet, Jacques Billiet et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•1988•Cited by: 27

    In this study we analyze the effects of interviewer training on the quality of responses. Data from a field experiment reveal a number of significant differences between trained and untrained interviewers in terms of nonresponse and the amount of information obtained. For some questions, an interaction effect occurred between interviewer training, the use of tape recorders, and the kind of responses. The effects of training appear to be dependent…

  • The Profile of the Difficult-yo-Interview Respondent

    Open Access•Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Sociological…•1995•References: 1

    Le profil du répondant difficile à interviewer. Dans cet article nous faisons l'hypothèse que tout répondant est motivé à coopérer et qu'il a suffisamment de capacités cognitives et de communication pour remplir de façon adéquate le rôle de répondant. Une typologie des motivations et des capacités de répondants est construites avec l'analyse des classes latentes. Les classes de cette typologie peuvent être caractérisées par rapport à la difficult…

  • The Sensitivity of Hierarchical Clustering Solutions to Irrelevant Variables

    Open Access•Istvan Hajnal, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Sociological…•1996•References: 4

    La sensibilité des analyses classificatoires aux variables non-pertinentes. L'analyse classificatoire hiérarchique ascendante est souvent utilisée comme outil d'exploration. L'auteur étudie la sensibilité des analyses classificatoires aux variables non-pertinentes. Après un bref survol de la littérature scientifique, une étude par simulation est présentée dans laquelle une variable aléatoire est ajoutée à l'ensemble des variables qui possèdent un…

  • Interaction Characteristics of the Difficult-to-Interview Respondent

    Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•1997•Cited by: 4

    When a researcher decides to collect data by means of survey interviews, he or she makes the assumption that all the respondents have sufficient cognitive and communicative skills to execute the respondent's role adequately. In this article we validate the explanation that older and less educated respondents are difficult to interview because they do not have sufficient communicative skills. To determine the respondent's cognitive and communicati…

  • Interaction Characteristics in Some Question-Wording Experiments

    Open Access•Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Sociological…•1997•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    Caractéristique des interactions dans des expériences de l'utilisation des mots dans les questionnaires. Des résultats d'analyses de l'interaction interviewer-répondant sont peu utilisés dans les recherches sur la qualité des données. Avec une analyse d'interaction des entretiens enregistrés sur bande lors d'une expérience sur l'utilisation des mots dans des questionnaires. Il est possible de valider quelqu'unes des explications proposées pour ce…

  • An Evaluation of Some Clustering Methods for Mixed Mode Variable Data Sets

    Open Access•Istvan Hajnal, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Sociological…•1998•References: 1

    Une évaluation de certains méthodes classificatoires de données de types dlfférents. La classification d'objets décrits par des variables de types différents nominales, ordinales ou numériques - a toujours posé des problèmes pour les méthodes classificatoires. Cet article présente brièvement certaines méthodes de classifications pour des données de types différents. Ces méthodes comprennent le coefficient de Gower. le coefficient de Kaufman et Ro…

  • An Evaluation of a Typology of Respondents With a Multilevel-Multinomial Logit Model

    Open Access•JAN PICKERY, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Sociological…•1999•References: 1

    Une évaluation d'une typologie de répondants avec un modèle logit multiniveau et multinomial. Dans cet article, nous examinons une typologie de répondants à une enquête, basée sur les rapports des interviewers. Dans de tels rapports, l'interviewer évalue la motivation et les capacités des interviewés à répondre aux questions. Dans un article précédent, cette information a été utilisée pour créer une typologie de répondants de trois types. Le prem…

  • The Effects of Interviewer and Respondent Characteristics on Response Behavior in Panel Surveys

    Open Access•JAN PICKERY, Geert Loosveldt et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Methods & Research•2001•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    Unit nonresponse in the second wave of a panel survey is related to several respondent characteristics and to the interviewer of that wave. More striking is the effect of the interviewer of the first wave, who is not involved in the second interview. To analyze both interviewer effects simultaneously, the authors use a multilevel cross-classified model. In that analysis, the effect of the interviewer of the second wave almost disappears. That eff…

  • Web Surveys

    Open Access•Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2002•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    Web surveys generally use some sort of access control to prevent uninvited respondents from taking part in the survey and to prevent multiple completions by the same (invited) respondent. Restriction of survey access can be accomplished in several technically equivalent ways. However, these methods may not be equivalent from a methodological viewpoint. In this article, an exploration of possible effects of access control mechanisms is undertaken.…

  • An Evaluation of the Effect of Response Formats on Data Quality in Web Surveys

    Open Access•Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2002•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    When designing a web questionnaire, various HTML input elements can be used to register respondents’ answers. Two input elements, radio buttons and drop-down boxes, can be regarded as technically equivalent because they serve the same purpose—both allowing selection of one answer from a list of response options. However, these input elements are dissimilar in many respects, and there is reason to believe that some people are less familiar with dr…

  • An Evaluation of the Semiautomatic Login Procedure to Control Web Survey Access

    Open Access•Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•Social Science Computer Review•2003•Cited by: 4•References: 2

    It is common practice to limit web survey access to individuals in the sample through the use of access codes such as personal identification numbers, user names, and passwords. Different technically equivalent methods exist to control survey access. However, these methods are not necessarily methodologically equivalent. In this study, an experimental design was set up to evaluate the effect of three login procedures: a manual, a semiautomatic, a…

  • Who Responds to Incentives

    Open Access•Vicky Storms, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•CAM•2004•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    In one year's time, the number of respondents in the Flemish Survey of Cultural Shifts expressing a wish to be paid for participating in surveys doubled (28% in 2002, compared to 14% in 2001). Analyses show this is mainly the result of survey-specific characteristics such as length of the survey, invasion of privacy issues, and cognitive efforts needed to fill in the questionnaire. Person-specific characteristics such as the level of individualis…

  • The effect of personalization on response rates and data quality in web surveys

    Dirk Heerwegh, Tim Vanhove et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2005•Cited by: 12•References: 9

    Personalizing correspondence has often shown to significantly increase survey response rates in mail surveys. This study experimentally tests whether personalization of email invitations acts correspondingly to web survey response rates. Also, it is investigated whether personalization influences data quality. The results of the study, using a large student sample, show that personalization significantly increases the web survey response rate by …

  • Personalizing E-mail Contacts

    Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2006•Cited by: 6•References: 4

    improves response to web surveys, but concerns have been raised and subtle indications have been found suggesting that personalization might result in more socially desirable responses (Heerwegh et al., ; Heerwegh, ; Joinson, Woodley, & Reips, ). The current study provides a stronger test of the hypothesis that personalization would induce social desirability bias, and secondarily provides an additional test of the effect of personalization on we…

  • Explaining the intention to participate in a web survey

    Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    Even though web surveys have become increasingly popular, considerable efforts are necessary to obtain acceptable response rates. This explains the proliferation of experiments aimed at improving levels of participation in web surveys. The current study is not aimed at increasing web survey response by means of experimental research, but instead uses a general psychological theory to explain web survey response. More specifically, the theory of p…

  • Measuring Public Opinions About Surveys

    Geert Loosveldt, Vicky Storms•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 7

    Respondent's opinions about survey research are regarded as an expression at the individual level of the general survey-taking climate. Based on a review of the research about ‘surveys on surveys’ five relevant dimensions of the respondent's opinion about surveys are distinguished: survey enjoyment, survey value, survey cost, survey reliability, and survey privacy. Items related to these aspects are used to develop an ‘Opinions about Survey Scale…

  • Research Note

    Open Access•Nathalie Sonck, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    ■ By widely disseminating news reports about opinion poll results, news media give politicians and citizens a particular indication of people's opinions. Problems arise when journalistic statements are based on opinion polls that do not conform to methodological standards or when a `biased' image of `public opinion' is published. In order to study the intertwined relationship between news media, opinion polling and public opinion, it has to be un…

  • Impact of Poll Results on Personal Opinions and Perceptions of Collective Opinion

    Nathalie Sonck, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2010•Cited by: 18•References: 11

    Whether, and to what degree, the publication of poll results might influence the opinions of the public is a much-debated subject. While many effect-studies of polls have looked at the voting context, this study is an empirical investigation into the effects of poll information on personal opinions and perceptions of collective opinion on five nonelectoral, though politically relevant issues (independence of the Flemish region in Belgium, retirem…

  • A Method for Evaluating Mode Effects in Mixed-mode Surveys

    Jorre Vannieuwenhuyze, Geert Loosveldt et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2010•Cited by: 22•References: 10

    Survey designs in which data from different groups of respondents are collected by different survey modes have become increasingly popular. However, such mixed-mode (MM) designs lead to a confounding of selection effects and measurement effects (measurement error) caused by mode differences. Consequently, MM data have poor quality. Nevertheless, comparing MM data with data from a comparable single-mode survey allows researchers to measure selecti…

  • Evaluating Relative Mode Effects in Mixed-Mode Surveys

    Open Access•Jorre T A Vannieuwenhuyze, Jorre Vannieuwenhuyze et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Methods & Research•2013•Cited by: 9•References: 25

    In order to investigate the advantage of mixed-mode (MM) surveys, selection effects between the modes should be evaluated. Selection effects refer to differences in respondent compositions on the target variables between the modes. However, estimation of selection effects is not an easy task because they may be completely confounded with measurement effects between the modes (differences in measurement error). Publications concerning the estimati…

  • The impact of respondents and interviewers on interview speed in face-to-face interviews

    Geert Loosveldt, Koen Beullens•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 4

  • A Procedure to Assess Interviewer Effects on Nonresponse Bias

    Open Access•Geert Loosveldt, Koen Beullens•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2014

    It is generally accepted that interviewers have a considerable effect on survey response. The difference between response success and failure does not only affect the response rate, but can also influence the composition of the realized sample or respondent set, and consequently introduce nonresponse bias. To measure these two different aspects of the obtained sample, response propensities will be used. They have an aggregate mean and variance th…

  • Face-to-Face Interviews

    Geert Loosveldt•CHAPTER•International Handbook of Survey…•2015

  • The effect of sociodemographic (mis)match between interviewers and respondents on unit and item nonresponse in Belgium

    Open Access•Anina Vercruyssen, Celine Wuyts et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 27

  • The Interviewer in the Respondent's Shoes

    Open Access•Celine Wuyts, Geert Loosveldt•ARTICLE•CAM•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    Previous research shows that interviewers to some extent fail to expend the effort that is needed to collect high-quality survey data. We extend the idea of interviewer satisficing to a related task, in which the interviewers themselves answer survey questions. We hypothesize that interviewers who self-administer the questionnaire in a careless manner will also not apply themselves fully to the task of administering survey interviews. Based on in…

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