LOIS/ Selects-Civique

Selects-Civique 2019

In the context of the 2019 Swiss Election Studies (Selects), in collaboration with Jessica Herzing (UNIBE) and Daniel Gatica-Perez (EPFL/Idiap Research Institute), we designed and conducted a large-scale three-wave panel survey based on an experimental design with a probability-based sample of residents in French-speaking Switzerland (n=2,175). The experiment was designed to compare alternative approaches to inviting respondents to complete questionnaires on a smartphone app (the Civique.org platform): a push-to-app approach versus a browser-based recruitment, switching respondents to the app at wave 2. As well as including measures of political attitudes and behaviours from Selects in all three waves, at wave 1, we included measures of willingness to complete digital data collection tasks (e.g., responding via an app, taking photos, enabling GPS tracking) and measures of data privacy concerns. In waves 2 and 3, we subsequently invited respondents to complete these tasks, allowing us to investigate the factors that predict participation.

Outputs

Publications

  • Roberts, C., Herzing, J.E., Asensio Manjon, M., Abbet, P. and Gatica-Perez, D.  (2022). Response burden and dropout in a probability-based online panel study – a comparison between an app and browser-based design. Journal of Official Statistics, special issue on ‘Respondent Burden’, 38(4): 987–1017. https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2022-0043
  • Roberts, C., Herzing, J.E., Sobrino Piazza, J., Abbet, P. and Gatica-Perez, D. (2022). Data privacy concerns as a source of resistance to participate in surveys using a smartphone app. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Special Issue on ‘Privacy, Confidentiality, and Disclosure Protection’, 10(3): 518–548. https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smac018
  • Lydia Tsagkari – Online privacy requests: Is research standardization needed? (Masters dissertation, defended June 2022 – University of Luzern; Supervisor: C. Roberts)
  • Julneth Martinez Atencio – How smartphone usage behaviours influence willingness to participate in research via mobile devices (Masters dissertation, defended February 2021 – University of Lausanne; Supervisor: C. Roberts)
  • Other publications in preparation. Please check back soon!

Presentations

  • Roberts, C., Herzing, J., Asensio, M., Abbet, P., and Gatica Perez, D. (2023). Response Burden and Dropout in a Probability-Based Online Panel Study – A Comparison between an App and Browser-Based Design. Paper presented at the 10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Milan, Italy, 17th-21st July 2023.
  • Roberts, C., Herzing, J.E., and Gatica-Perez, D. (2022). Are respondents on the move when completing a mobile web survey? Evaluating response context through combined data sources.Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May 11-13, 2022.
  • Roberts, C., Herzing, J.E., and Gatica-Perez, D. (2021). Can a smartphone app be used to survey the general population: Comparing an app- and a browser-based web survey design. Paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Virtual Conference, July 2021.
  • Asensio Manjon, M., Roberts, C., Herzing, J.E. (2021). Mobile optimization strategies: Effects on web survey participation and fieldwork progression. Paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Virtual Conference, July 2021.
  • Martinez Atencio, J., Roberts, C., Herzing, J., and Gatica-Perez, D. (2021). Does smartphone usage behaviour influence willingness to agree to passive data collection via a mobile app? Paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Virtual Conference, July 2021.
  • Roberts, C., Herzing, J., and Gatica-Perez, D. (2021). Can a smartphone app be used to survey the general population? Comparing an app- and a browser-based web survey design. Paper presented at the 2nd Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) Workshop, 22nd-23rd April, 2021.
  • Roberts, C., Herzing, J., and Gatica-Perez, D. (2020). Data privacy concerns as a source of resistance to participate in surveys using a smartphone app. Paper presented at the General Online Research (GOR) Conference, Virtual Conference, 10th-11th September 2020.
  • Herzing, J.E., Roberts, C., and Gatica-Perez, D. (2020). Are respondents on the move when filling out a mobile web survey?Paper presented at the General Online Research (GOR) Conference, Virtual Conference, 10th-11th September 2020.
  • Roberts, C. (2019). Measuring Privacy Attitudes. Contribution to a panel discussion presented at the 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Zagreb, Croatia, 15th-19th July 2019.
  • Roberts, C., Herzing, J., Sobrino Piazza, J., and Gatica-Perez, D. (2019). Understanding resistance to participate in passive smartphone data collection in mobile-web surveys. Paper presented at the 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Zagreb, Croatia, 15th-19th July 2019.

Leveraging On-device Inference in Social Surveys (LOIS), 2019

The Selects-Civique field experiment formed part of a larger project funded by the EPFL-UNIL Collaborative Research on Science and Society programme called ‘LOIS’ (Leveraging On-device Inference in Social Surveys – a collaboration with Daniel Gatica-Perez (EPFL/Idiap Research Institute) and Jessica Herzing (UNIBE). The project used mixed methods to investigate public willingness to participate in surveys using smartphone apps and the potential for using multimodal data collection capabilities of apps to reduce respondent burden. In addition to the Selects-Civique survey experiment, we conducted focus groups to better understand barriers to participation in surveys with smartphone apps, smartphone usage more generally, and people’s concerns about data privacy. We also conducted in-depth usability testing to find out which app features and data collection tasks created challenges for participants.

Outputs

  • Nirosan Karunarajah – Usability issues of app-based surveys – a potential factor to respond via smartphone app? A case study approach (Masters dissertation, defended November 2020 – University of Luzern. Supervisor: C. Roberts).
  • Lydia Tsagkari – Online privacy requests: Is research standardization needed? (Masters dissertation, defended June 2022 – University of Luzern; Supervisor: C. Roberts)
  • Other publications in preparation. Please check back soon!