#surveydata — Public Fediverse posts

Americans keep using terrible passwords in 2026 as survey finds pet names and birthdays still rule

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/americans-bad-password-habits-2026/

#GESISblog #blog #DataQuality #SurveyData
The new post on the GESIS blog shows how the #KODAQS #Toolbox helps to improve the quality of survey data: "The KODAQS Toolbox – Assessing and Mitigating Data Quality Issues - Part 1: Survey Data".
https://blog.gesis.org/the-kodaqs-toolbox-assessing-and-mitigating-data-quality-issues-part-1-survey-data/

#GESISblog #blog #DataQuality #SurveyData
The new post on the GESIS blog shows how the #KODAQS #Toolbox helps to improve the quality of survey data: "The KODAQS Toolbox – Assessing and Mitigating Data Quality Issues - Part 1: Survey Data".
https://blog.gesis.org/the-kodaqs-toolbox-assessing-and-mitigating-data-quality-issues-part-1-survey-data/

📢 20 November: Meet the Experts – PIAAC 2023 (Germany)
@GESIS presents the new German PIAAC Scientific Use File. The session introduces key variables, documentation, and methodological features (structure, missing scheme, weighting concept, plausible values) and highlights differences between Cycles 1 and 2 relevant for trend analysis.
An opportunity to discuss questions directly with the PIAAC team.

#GESIS #PIAAC2023 #SurveyData #ResearchData

Measuring the Unmeasurable? Systematic Evidence on Scale Transformations in Subjective #SurveyData https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp18029&r=&r=hap
"The relationship between the ‘cost’ of deviating from #linearity and the risk of sign reversal is, as one might expect, concave. Approximately 20% of results published in leading economic journals are reversed with some transformation that has a plausible cost. Restricting ourselves to interpreting wellbeing data as merely ordinal (i.e. allowing for any departure from linear scale use), increases this share to about 60%.
… Turning to relative magnitudes, we focus on unemployment and income as key determinants studied across multiple papers in our database. While coefficient signs for these are fairly robust, their relative magnitudes are highly sensitive to scale use assumptions. Marginal rates of substitution between unemployment and income can vary by an order of magnitude under plausible deviations from linearity.
… #statisticalInference and estimates of relative effect magnitudes become unreliable, even under modest departures from linearity. This is especially problematic for policy applications. We show that these concerns generalise to many other widely used survey-based constructs."
#ordinalMeasures #LikertScale #economics

Measuring the Unmeasurable? Systematic Evidence on Scale Transformations in Subjective #SurveyData https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp18029&r=&r=hap
"The relationship between the ‘cost’ of deviating from #linearity and the risk of sign reversal is, as one might expect, concave. Approximately 20% of results published in leading economic journals are reversed with some transformation that has a plausible cost. Restricting ourselves to interpreting wellbeing data as merely ordinal (i.e. allowing for any departure from linear scale use), increases this share to about 60%.
… Turning to relative magnitudes, we focus on unemployment and income as key determinants studied across multiple papers in our database. While coefficient signs for these are fairly robust, their relative magnitudes are highly sensitive to scale use assumptions. Marginal rates of substitution between unemployment and income can vary by an order of magnitude under plausible deviations from linearity.
… #statisticalInference and estimates of relative effect magnitudes become unreliable, even under modest departures from linearity. This is especially problematic for policy applications. We show that these concerns generalise to many other widely used survey-based constructs."
#ordinalMeasures #LikertScale #economics

📕 New paper by CPC-CG's Vincent Ramos 👇

Examines #childbearing decisions in societies experiencing declining #birthrates - how might worries about #caring for #ageing parents and job insecurity affect expectations around starting a #family?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11113-025-09969-9

#demography #socialsciences #fertility #familyplanning #experimentalsurvey #Germany #surveydata

#Call #ResearchProposals #WebTracking #SurveyData #GESISPanel

Collect Your Own Linked Web Tracking and Survey Data with the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample

In the recently established GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample, panelists participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections such as web tracking, where participants' web browsing behavior (including the content of website visits) is recorded.

#Call #ResearchProposals #WebTracking #SurveyData #GESISPanel

Collect Your Own Linked Web Tracking and Survey Data with the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample

In the recently established GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample, panelists participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections such as web tracking, where participants' web browsing behavior (including the content of website visits) is recorded.

#dataquality #Surveydata #digitalbehavioraldata #linkeddatasources
Official launch of the #KODAQS #Toolbox in July 2025

The KODAQS Toolbox is a new, open platform for assessing and improving data quality in the social sciences. It supports researchers in systematically reflecting on the quality of their data - along three central data types: Survey data, digital behavioral data (e.g. app or sensor data) and linked data sources (e.g. register and geospatial data).
https://kodaqs-toolbox.gesis.org/

#dataquality #Surveydata #digitalbehavioraldata #linkeddatasources
Official launch of the #KODAQS #Toolbox in July 2025

The KODAQS Toolbox is a new, open platform for assessing and improving data quality in the social sciences. It supports researchers in systematically reflecting on the quality of their data - along three central data types: Survey data, digital behavioral data (e.g. app or sensor data) and linked data sources (e.g. register and geospatial data).
https://kodaqs-toolbox.gesis.org/

#R #surveydata #qualityindicators
New R-package out now!

"resquin" (response quality indicators) provides functions to calculate survey data quality indicators to help identifying low-quality responses. resp_styles() and resp_distributions() provide response quality indicators geared towards multi-item scales or matrix questions.

By Matthias Roth, Nivedita Bhaktha, Matthias Bluemke, Thomas Knopf, Fabienne Krämer, Clemens Lechner, and Çağla Yildiz

Check it out!
https://matroth.github.io/resquin/

#R #surveydata #qualityindicators
New R-package out now!

"resquin" (response quality indicators) provides functions to calculate survey data quality indicators to help identifying low-quality responses. resp_styles() and resp_distributions() provide response quality indicators geared towards multi-item scales or matrix questions.

By Matthias Roth, Nivedita Bhaktha, Matthias Bluemke, Thomas Knopf, Fabienne Krämer, Clemens Lechner, and Çağla Yildiz

Check it out!
https://matroth.github.io/resquin/

#Call for Research Proposals: Collect Your Own Linked #WebTracking and #SurveyData with the New GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample:
Participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections within the GESIS Panel.dbd.

https://www.gesis.org/forschung/tagungen-und-konferenzen/details/article/call-for-research-proposals-collect-your-own-linked-web-tracking-and-survey-data-with-the-new-gesis-paneldbd-digital-behavioral-data-sample

#Call for Research Proposals: Collect Your Own Linked #WebTracking and #SurveyData with the New GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample:
Participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections within the GESIS Panel.dbd.

https://www.gesis.org/forschung/tagungen-und-konferenzen/details/article/call-for-research-proposals-collect-your-own-linked-web-tracking-and-survey-data-with-the-new-gesis-paneldbd-digital-behavioral-data-sample

Ouch! #surveydata
http://justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2024/04/invent-your-own-research.html?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Ouch! #surveydata
http://justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2024/04/invent-your-own-research.html?utm_source=pocket_mylist

📋 Good news! Following the #UKGGSLaunch in January, the UK #Generations and #Gender #Surveydata are now available from the #UKDataService: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9247

Watch the UK GGS video explainer to learn more about the data and uses https://youtu.be/XobC2RoXnp0

#GenderRoles #FamilyLife #Marriage #HealthData
#Childbearing #FamilyPlanning #Abortion #EconomicConditions #EconomicIndicators

🤯 If you are a long-time user of Microsoft Forms, you have likely run into the annoyance of ending up with a new spreadsheet every time you go to download a copy of your Forms response data.

If you are tired of juggling multiple spreadsheets of survey data, then you are going to love that Microsoft Forms just rolled out an update to make your life easier! Say goodbye to manual updates, outdated data, and confusing tables. ✨

You can now have your data up to date and in sync automatically and can extract valuable insights from your data in just a couple of clicks. Check out how in my latest short video: https://buff.ly/3uUSvCY

#MicrosoftForms #Excel #DataAnalysis #SurveyData #Productivity #TimeSaving
#YouTube #FediTips

🤯 If you are a long-time user of Microsoft Forms, you have likely run into the annoyance of ending up with a new spreadsheet every time you go to download a copy of your Forms response data.

If you are tired of juggling multiple spreadsheets of survey data, then you are going to love that Microsoft Forms just rolled out an update to make your life easier! Say goodbye to manual updates, outdated data, and confusing tables. ✨

You can now have your data up to date and in sync automatically and can extract valuable insights from your data in just a couple of clicks. Check out how in my latest short video: https://buff.ly/3uUSvCY

#MicrosoftForms #Excel #DataAnalysis #SurveyData #Productivity #TimeSaving
#YouTube #FediTips

@pgmj #Rstats packages such as #catR #mstR (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-69218-0) #mirt and other such infrastructure have moved the field on the #Psychometrics side.

But there is no way to integrate them into the systems I have been using so far to collect for example online #SurveyData with.

Another hurdle:
The field of #SurveyResearch being disconnected from #LatentVariable Theory and related test developments. Something I re-visit each time I deliver training to deliver tests, items, interviews.

@pgmj #Rstats packages such as #catR #mstR (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-69218-0) #mirt and other such infrastructure have moved the field on the #Psychometrics side.

But there is no way to integrate them into the systems I have been using so far to collect for example online #SurveyData with.

Another hurdle:
The field of #SurveyResearch being disconnected from #LatentVariable Theory and related test developments. Something I re-visit each time I deliver training to deliver tests, items, interviews.

{surveytoolbox} is an #rstats 📦 with “tidy support functions for survey analysis. … This is a curated collection of functions that I’ve either written or come across over the past years. In my analysis workflow, I often use these functions in conjunction with tidyverse, srvyr (allows you to work with weighted data), and janitor.” By Martin Chan

https://martinctc.github.io/surveytoolbox/

#Surveys #SurveyData @rstats

{surveytoolbox} is an #rstats 📦 with “tidy support functions for survey analysis. … This is a curated collection of functions that I’ve either written or come across over the past years. In my analysis workflow, I often use these functions in conjunction with tidyverse, srvyr (allows you to work with weighted data), and janitor.” By Martin Chan

https://martinctc.github.io/surveytoolbox/

#Surveys #SurveyData @rstats

#MeetTheExperts #SurveyData #linking #PoliticalTrust
Don't forget to tune in tomorrow and meet our expert: @[email protected] talks about "Linking surveys with electoral integrity assessments to explain political trust". Join us and #register now: https://www.gesis.org/en/services/sharing-knowledge/meet-the-experts

#MeetTheExperts #SurveyData #linking #PoliticalTrust
Don't forget to tune in tomorrow and meet our expert: @[email protected] talks about "Linking surveys with electoral integrity assessments to explain political trust". Join us and #register now: https://www.gesis.org/en/services/sharing-knowledge/meet-the-experts

A new brief on the increase in the Medicaid undercount in 2021 federal survey data from me and #SHADAC coauthors Elizabeth Lukanen and @blewe001

https://www.shadac.org/publications/medicaid-undercount-doubles-20-21

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#HealthPolicy #PublicHealth #SurveyData #HealthData #Medicaid #MedicaidUndercount

A new brief on the increase in the Medicaid undercount in 2021 federal survey data from me and #SHADAC coauthors Elizabeth Lukanen and @blewe001

https://www.shadac.org/publications/medicaid-undercount-doubles-20-21

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#HealthPolicy #PublicHealth #SurveyData #HealthData #Medicaid #MedicaidUndercount

Hi good morning! #introduction

I'm Robert (he/him). I live in #minneapolis. I like to ride and race #bikes—#mtb, #cyclocross, #GravelRacing—and watch #cycling. I work at SHADAC, a state-focused #HealthPolicy research center at UMN SPH. I'm interested in all things #SurveyData, #PublicHealth, #healthInsurance, #Medicaid, #HealthData

Hi good morning! #introduction

I'm Robert (he/him). I live in #minneapolis. I like to ride and race #bikes—#mtb, #cyclocross, #GravelRacing—and watch #cycling. I work at SHADAC, a state-focused #HealthPolicy research center at UMN SPH. I'm interested in all things #SurveyData, #PublicHealth, #healthInsurance, #Medicaid, #HealthData

#surveydata #linking
First #video of the new season of "Meet the Experts" - Meet @[email protected] & @[email protected] give an overview about linking survey data: state of the art and future directions. Check out our #YouTube channel and watch it now! https://youtu.be/yfdBrotxcv8

Call for contributions: Integrating Reflexivities into Survey Research
Online workshop, 30 January 2023.

The IMISCOE Standing Committees: Reflexivities in Migration Studies and Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research are inviting submissions!!! A timely and interesting workshop!

https://www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blog/news/news-from-members/1654-call-for-contributions-integrating-reflexivities-into-survey-research

#Migrationstudies #IMISCOE #Reflexivities #Surveydata

#jobs #stellenangebot# opneposition #jobfairy
Starting on 01.01.2023 our Team #QuestionnaireDesign & #Evaluation located in #Mannheim is looking for a #Postdoc Comparability of #surveydata (13 TV-L, 100 %, initially for 4 years with possible #tenure): https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/27261/Postdoc-Comparability-of-survey-data?lang=en-US

Hi good morning! #introduction

I'm Robert (he/him). I live in #minneapolis. I like to ride and race #bikes—#mtb, #cyclocross, #gravelracing—and watch #cycling. I work at SHADAC, a state-focused #healthpolicy research center at UMN SPH. I'm interested in all things #surveydata, #publichealth, #healthinsurance...

Hi good morning! #introduction

I'm Robert (he/him). I live in #minneapolis. I like to ride and race #bikes—#mtb, #cyclocross, #gravelracing—and watch #cycling. I work at SHADAC, a state-focused #healthpolicy research center at UMN SPH. I'm interested in all things #surveydata, #publichealth, #healthinsurance...

With shots and infections, the most common COVID symptoms have shifted - Enlarge / A close-up view of a woman sneezing. (credit: Getty | David ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1892816 #infectiousdisease #lossofsmell #lossoftaste #sars-cov-2 #sorethroat #surveydata #coughing #covid-19 #sneezing #symptoms #vaccines #science #cills #fever

INSIGHTS: A first update on our InfoSec/Cyber salary survey 💰 🤑 https://insights.infosec-jobs.com/a-first-update-on-our-salary-survey/ #OpenSalaries #Security #SalaryData #OpenData #CyberSalaries #SalaryDataset #FreeSalaryData #PublicDomain #Datasets #TechSalaries #surveydata #InfoSecJobs #Insights #globalsalaries #cybersecurity