Bernd Weiß
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernd Weiß |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernd |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiß |
| SIGNATURE | WEISS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1176-8408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Enhancing Participation in Web Tracking Studies Through Monetary Incentives: Experimental Evidence from an Academic Data Collection Infrastructure
Web tracking studies provide unique insights into digital behavior but face challenges related to participant recruitment and attrition. This study examines how different monetary incentive structures—unconditional and conditional—and incentive amounts affect key recruitment stages: consent to participate in web tracking, installation of tracking software, and attrition after installation. To assess the effectiveness of monetary incentives across…
Education bias in probability-based surveys in Germany: Evidence and Possible Solutions
Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research: A Systematic Review
While survey data has long been the focus of quantitative social science analyses, observational and content data, although long-established, are gaining renewed attention; especially when this type of data is obtained by and for observing digital content and behavior. Today, digital technologies allow social scientists to track “everyday behavior” and to extract opinions from public discussions on online platforms. These new types of digital tra…
Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research
Sampling remains a major challenge when researching minority populations, especially in cross-national settings. While various sampling methods are established in the field, most of them cannot easily be implemented globally. However, worldwide operating Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries. Targeting German emigrants through paid advertisements on Facebook…
Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data
The spread of modern digital technologies, such as social media online platforms, digital marketplaces, smartphones, and wearables, is increasingly shifting social, political, economic, cultural, and physiological processes into the digital space. Social actors using these technologies (directly and indirectly) leave a multitude of digital traces in many areas of life that sum up an enormous amount of data about human behavior and attitudes. This…
Monitoring Attitudes Over Time: Real Change or the Result of Repeated Interviewing
Panel data are often used to study change and stability in social patterns. However, repeated interviewing may affect respondents' attitudes in a panel study by triggering reflection processes on the surveyed topics (cognitive stimulus hypothesis) . Using data from a survey experiment within a probability-based and a nonprobability panel in Germany, we investigate change-and the mechanisms underlying change-in respondents' abortion attitudes over…
Crossing the border: EU membership assessment by Ukrainian refugees in early 2022
The Russian invasion at the beginning of 2022 forced many Ukrainians to find refuge in safer places. Using unique survey data collected in the early days of the war, this research note turns to Ukrainian refugees’ opinions in two host countries: Germany and Poland. We are interested in how this–otherwise hard-to-reach und so far understudied–group of people evaluated their country’s potential European Union (EU) accession at that very specific mo…
Asking for Traces: A Vignette Study on Acceptability Norms and Personal Willingness to Donate Digital Trace Data
Digital trace data are increasingly used in the social sciences. Given the risks associated with data access via application programming interfaces (APIs) as well as ethical discussions around the use of such data, data donations have been proposed as a methodologically reliable and ethically sound way of collecting digital trace data. While data donations have many advantages, study participants may be reluctant to share their data, for example,…
Multiple imputation of partially observed covariates in discrete-time survival analysis
Discrete-time survival analysis (DTSA) models are a popular way of modeling events in the social sciences. However, the analysis of discrete-time survival data is challenged by missing data in one or more covariates. Negative consequences of missing covariate data include efficiency losses and possible bias. A popular approach to circumventing these consequences is multiple imputation (MI). In MI, it is crucial to include outcome information in t…
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives
As our modern world has become increasingly digitalized, various types of data from different data domains are available that can enrich survey data. To link survey data to other sources, consent from the survey respondents is required. This article compares consent to data linkage requests for seven data domains: administrative data, smartphone usage data, bank data, biomarkers, Facebook data, health insurance data, and sensor data. We experimen…
The role of the information environment during the first Covid-19 wave in Germany
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by intense debates about the role of the information environment. On the one hand, citizens learn from public information campaigns and news coverage and supposedly adjust their behaviours accordingly; on the other, there are fears of widespread misinformation and its detrimental effects. Analyzing the posts of the most important German information providers published via Facebook, this paper first ident…
Now, later, or never? Using response-time patterns to predict panel attrition
Preventing panel members from attriting is a fundamental challenge for panel surveys. Research has shown that response behavior in earlier waves (response or nonresponse) is a good predictor of panelists’ response behavior in upcoming waves. However, response behavior can be described in greater detail by considering the time until the response is returned. In the present study, we investigated whether respondents who habitually return their surv…
How Do Internet-Related Characteristics Affect Whether Members of a German Mixed-Mode Panel Switch from the Mail to the Web Mode
In recent years, several longitudinal studies have transitioned from an interviewer-administered to a mixed-mode design, using the internet as one of the modes of data collection. However, a substantial proportion of panelists are reluctant to participate in web surveys when offered a choice in an ongoing mixed-mode panel. We still know little about the characteristics of panel members that drive them to comply with the request to complete survey…
Twitter Users' Privacy Behavior: A Reasoned Action Approach
Social networking sites have become a predominant means of communication across the globe. Activities on these sites generate massive amounts of personal information and raise concerns about its potential abuse. Means designed to protect the user's privacy and prevent exploitation of confidential data often go unused. In this study, we draw on the theory of planned behavior, a reasoned action approach, to explain intentions to adopt privacy behav…
A Total Error Framework for Digital Traces of Human Behavior on Online Platforms
People’s activities and opinions recorded as digital traces online, especially on social media and other web-based platforms, offer increasingly informative pictures of the public. They promise to allow inferences about populations beyond the users of the platforms on which the traces are recorded, representing real potential for the social sciences and a complement to survey-based research. But the use of digital traces brings its own complexiti…
On the links between employment, partnership quality, and the desire to have a first child: The case of West Germany
We examine the impact of precarious work (low income and job security satisfaction) on the intention to have a first child. We consider a direct and an indirect effect; the latter is mediated by partnersâ conflict behaviour, conflict level, and partner
Potentiale und Probleme von Meta-Analysen in der Soziologie
In diesem Beitrag werden Möglichkeiten und Probleme der Anwendung von Meta-Analysen in der Soziologie diskutiert. Während in anderen Fächern Meta-Analysen weit verbreitet sind, ist vor allem die deutschsprachige Soziologie noch weit davon entfernt, diese regelmäßig einzusetzen. Es wird eine einfache Systematik von Meta-Analysen eingeführt, mit der sich disziplinäre Unterschiede gut beschreiben lassen. Anschließend wird dargestellt, dass Meta-Anal…
Die Bilanz der Scheidungsforschung bleibt eine Bilanz / The Review of Divorce Research Remains a Review: Eine Antwort auf Josef Brüderl / A Response to Josef Brüderl
Die empirische Analyse von Scheidungsrisiken
Schulverweigerung: Empirische Analysen zum abweichenden Verhalten von Schülern
Bilanz der deutschen Scheidungsforschung. Versuch einer Meta-Analyse / A Meta-Analysis of German Research on Divorce Risks
Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die Ergebnisse der deutschen Ehescheidungsforschung mittels einer Meta- Analyse zu bilanzieren. Literaturrecherchen ergaben 42 Publikationen, die zwischen 1987 und 2001 erschienen sind. Auf der Basis von Längsschnittdaten aus sieben Projekten werden Modelle der Ereignisanalyse angewendet, wobei die Scheidungsrate die abhängige Variable darstellt. Insgesamt werden 399 verschiedene Ehescheidungsrisiken untersucht und 3730 …
A Total Error Framework for Digital Traces of Human Behavior on Online Platforms
People’s activities and opinions recorded as digital traces online, especially on social media and other web-based platforms, offer increasingly informative pictures of the public. They promise to allow inferences about populations beyond the users of the platforms on which the traces are recorded, representing real potential for the social sciences and a complement to survey-based research. But the use of digital traces brings its own complexiti…
Bilanz der deutschen Scheidungsforschung. Versuch einer Meta-Analyse / A Meta-Analysis of German Research on Divorce Risks
Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die Ergebnisse der deutschen Ehescheidungsforschung mittels einer Meta- Analyse zu bilanzieren. Literaturrecherchen ergaben 42 Publikationen, die zwischen 1987 und 2001 erschienen sind. Auf der Basis von Längsschnittdaten aus sieben Projekten werden Modelle der Ereignisanalyse angewendet, wobei die Scheidungsrate die abhängige Variable darstellt. Insgesamt werden 399 verschiedene Ehescheidungsrisiken untersucht und 3730 …
On the links between employment, partnership quality, and the desire to have a first child: The case of West Germany
We examine the impact of precarious work (low income and job security satisfaction) on the intention to have a first child. We consider a direct and an indirect effect; the latter is mediated by partnersâ conflict behaviour, conflict level, and partner
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives
As our modern world has become increasingly digitalized, various types of data from different data domains are available that can enrich survey data. To link survey data to other sources, consent from the survey respondents is required. This article compares consent to data linkage requests for seven data domains: administrative data, smartphone usage data, bank data, biomarkers, Facebook data, health insurance data, and sensor data. We experimen…
Education bias in probability-based surveys in Germany: Evidence and Possible Solutions
Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data
The spread of modern digital technologies, such as social media online platforms, digital marketplaces, smartphones, and wearables, is increasingly shifting social, political, economic, cultural, and physiological processes into the digital space. Social actors using these technologies (directly and indirectly) leave a multitude of digital traces in many areas of life that sum up an enormous amount of data about human behavior and attitudes. This…
Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research
Sampling remains a major challenge when researching minority populations, especially in cross-national settings. While various sampling methods are established in the field, most of them cannot easily be implemented globally. However, worldwide operating Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries. Targeting German emigrants through paid advertisements on Facebook…
Monitoring Attitudes Over Time: Real Change or the Result of Repeated Interviewing
Panel data are often used to study change and stability in social patterns. However, repeated interviewing may affect respondents' attitudes in a panel study by triggering reflection processes on the surveyed topics (cognitive stimulus hypothesis) . Using data from a survey experiment within a probability-based and a nonprobability panel in Germany, we investigate change-and the mechanisms underlying change-in respondents' abortion attitudes over…
Asking for Traces: A Vignette Study on Acceptability Norms and Personal Willingness to Donate Digital Trace Data
Digital trace data are increasingly used in the social sciences. Given the risks associated with data access via application programming interfaces (APIs) as well as ethical discussions around the use of such data, data donations have been proposed as a methodologically reliable and ethically sound way of collecting digital trace data. While data donations have many advantages, study participants may be reluctant to share their data, for example,…
How Do Internet-Related Characteristics Affect Whether Members of a German Mixed-Mode Panel Switch from the Mail to the Web Mode
In recent years, several longitudinal studies have transitioned from an interviewer-administered to a mixed-mode design, using the internet as one of the modes of data collection. However, a substantial proportion of panelists are reluctant to participate in web surveys when offered a choice in an ongoing mixed-mode panel. We still know little about the characteristics of panel members that drive them to comply with the request to complete survey…
Schulverweigerung: Empirische Analysen zum abweichenden Verhalten von Schülern
Bilanz der deutschen Scheidungsforschung. Versuch einer Meta-Analyse / A Meta-Analysis of German Research on Divorce Risks
Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die Ergebnisse der deutschen Ehescheidungsforschung mittels einer Meta- Analyse zu bilanzieren. Literaturrecherchen ergaben 42 Publikationen, die zwischen 1987 und 2001 erschienen sind. Auf der Basis von Längsschnittdaten aus sieben Projekten werden Modelle der Ereignisanalyse angewendet, wobei die Scheidungsrate die abhängige Variable darstellt. Insgesamt werden 399 verschiedene Ehescheidungsrisiken untersucht und 3730 …
Die Bilanz der Scheidungsforschung bleibt eine Bilanz / The Review of Divorce Research Remains a Review: Eine Antwort auf Josef Brüderl / A Response to Josef Brüderl
Die empirische Analyse von Scheidungsrisiken
Schulverweigerung: Empirische Analysen zum abweichenden Verhalten von Schülern
Potentiale und Probleme von Meta-Analysen in der Soziologie
In diesem Beitrag werden Möglichkeiten und Probleme der Anwendung von Meta-Analysen in der Soziologie diskutiert. Während in anderen Fächern Meta-Analysen weit verbreitet sind, ist vor allem die deutschsprachige Soziologie noch weit davon entfernt, diese regelmäßig einzusetzen. Es wird eine einfache Systematik von Meta-Analysen eingeführt, mit der sich disziplinäre Unterschiede gut beschreiben lassen. Anschließend wird dargestellt, dass Meta-Anal…
On the links between employment, partnership quality, and the desire to have a first child: The case of West Germany
We examine the impact of precarious work (low income and job security satisfaction) on the intention to have a first child. We consider a direct and an indirect effect; the latter is mediated by partnersâ conflict behaviour, conflict level, and partner
A Total Error Framework for Digital Traces of Human Behavior on Online Platforms
People’s activities and opinions recorded as digital traces online, especially on social media and other web-based platforms, offer increasingly informative pictures of the public. They promise to allow inferences about populations beyond the users of the platforms on which the traces are recorded, representing real potential for the social sciences and a complement to survey-based research. But the use of digital traces brings its own complexiti…
The role of the information environment during the first Covid-19 wave in Germany
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by intense debates about the role of the information environment. On the one hand, citizens learn from public information campaigns and news coverage and supposedly adjust their behaviours accordingly; on the other, there are fears of widespread misinformation and its detrimental effects. Analyzing the posts of the most important German information providers published via Facebook, this paper first ident…
Now, later, or never? Using response-time patterns to predict panel attrition
Preventing panel members from attriting is a fundamental challenge for panel surveys. Research has shown that response behavior in earlier waves (response or nonresponse) is a good predictor of panelists’ response behavior in upcoming waves. However, response behavior can be described in greater detail by considering the time until the response is returned. In the present study, we investigated whether respondents who habitually return their surv…
How Do Internet-Related Characteristics Affect Whether Members of a German Mixed-Mode Panel Switch from the Mail to the Web Mode
In recent years, several longitudinal studies have transitioned from an interviewer-administered to a mixed-mode design, using the internet as one of the modes of data collection. However, a substantial proportion of panelists are reluctant to participate in web surveys when offered a choice in an ongoing mixed-mode panel. We still know little about the characteristics of panel members that drive them to comply with the request to complete survey…
Twitter Users' Privacy Behavior: A Reasoned Action Approach
Social networking sites have become a predominant means of communication across the globe. Activities on these sites generate massive amounts of personal information and raise concerns about its potential abuse. Means designed to protect the user's privacy and prevent exploitation of confidential data often go unused. In this study, we draw on the theory of planned behavior, a reasoned action approach, to explain intentions to adopt privacy behav…
Consent to data linkage for different data domains – the role of question order, question wording, and incentives
As our modern world has become increasingly digitalized, various types of data from different data domains are available that can enrich survey data. To link survey data to other sources, consent from the survey respondents is required. This article compares consent to data linkage requests for seven data domains: administrative data, smartphone usage data, bank data, biomarkers, Facebook data, health insurance data, and sensor data. We experimen…
Crossing the border: EU membership assessment by Ukrainian refugees in early 2022
The Russian invasion at the beginning of 2022 forced many Ukrainians to find refuge in safer places. Using unique survey data collected in the early days of the war, this research note turns to Ukrainian refugees’ opinions in two host countries: Germany and Poland. We are interested in how this–otherwise hard-to-reach und so far understudied–group of people evaluated their country’s potential European Union (EU) accession at that very specific mo…
Asking for Traces: A Vignette Study on Acceptability Norms and Personal Willingness to Donate Digital Trace Data
Digital trace data are increasingly used in the social sciences. Given the risks associated with data access via application programming interfaces (APIs) as well as ethical discussions around the use of such data, data donations have been proposed as a methodologically reliable and ethically sound way of collecting digital trace data. While data donations have many advantages, study participants may be reluctant to share their data, for example,…
Multiple imputation of partially observed covariates in discrete-time survival analysis
Discrete-time survival analysis (DTSA) models are a popular way of modeling events in the social sciences. However, the analysis of discrete-time survival data is challenged by missing data in one or more covariates. Negative consequences of missing covariate data include efficiency losses and possible bias. A popular approach to circumventing these consequences is multiple imputation (MI). In MI, it is crucial to include outcome information in t…
Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research: A Systematic Review
While survey data has long been the focus of quantitative social science analyses, observational and content data, although long-established, are gaining renewed attention; especially when this type of data is obtained by and for observing digital content and behavior. Today, digital technologies allow social scientists to track “everyday behavior” and to extract opinions from public discussions on online platforms. These new types of digital tra…
Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research
Sampling remains a major challenge when researching minority populations, especially in cross-national settings. While various sampling methods are established in the field, most of them cannot easily be implemented globally. However, worldwide operating Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries. Targeting German emigrants through paid advertisements on Facebook…
Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data
The spread of modern digital technologies, such as social media online platforms, digital marketplaces, smartphones, and wearables, is increasingly shifting social, political, economic, cultural, and physiological processes into the digital space. Social actors using these technologies (directly and indirectly) leave a multitude of digital traces in many areas of life that sum up an enormous amount of data about human behavior and attitudes. This…
Monitoring Attitudes Over Time: Real Change or the Result of Repeated Interviewing
Panel data are often used to study change and stability in social patterns. However, repeated interviewing may affect respondents' attitudes in a panel study by triggering reflection processes on the surveyed topics (cognitive stimulus hypothesis) . Using data from a survey experiment within a probability-based and a nonprobability panel in Germany, we investigate change-and the mechanisms underlying change-in respondents' abortion attitudes over…
Enhancing Participation in Web Tracking Studies Through Monetary Incentives: Experimental Evidence from an Academic Data Collection Infrastructure
Web tracking studies provide unique insights into digital behavior but face challenges related to participant recruitment and attrition. This study examines how different monetary incentive structures—unconditional and conditional—and incentive amounts affect key recruitment stages: consent to participate in web tracking, installation of tracking software, and attrition after installation. To assess the effectiveness of monetary incentives across…
Education bias in probability-based surveys in Germany: Evidence and Possible Solutions
Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (6 works) · Econometrics (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Statistics (5 works)