In 2012, I collaborated with Dominique Joye (UNIL) and Mich\u00e8le Ernst St\u00e4hli (FORS), leading on the design, implementation and analysis of a large-scale (n=3,600) mixed mode experiment in the French-speaking region of Switzerland. The study was conducted in the context of a work package of the National Centre for Competence in Research “LIVES<\/a> \u2013 Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Individual Project 15 – Life transitions in context: Towards an integrated methodological framework for studying the impact of critical events<\/em>, led by Dominique Joye). The experiment was conducted alongside Round 6 of the European Social Survey (2012), enabling comparisons between the standard ESS data based on face-to-face interviewing, and alternative single and mixed mode designs (telephone only, telephone plus mail; web plus mail; mail only). <\/p>\n\n\n\n The vehicle for the experiment was a survey called ‘Wellbeing and unease in Suisse romande’ (Bien-\u00eatre et mal-\u00eatre en Suisse romande<\/a>) and included questions from the rotating module of the ESS on personal wellbeing, which are known to be highly sensitive to mode effects. Additional questions intended for methodological research purposes were included, plus other questions from the ESS core questionnaire (mainly socio-demographic measures). The data were used in several publications and a PhD project (also funded by LIVES) by Rosa Sanchez Tom\u00e9, supervised by me, with Dominique Joye as co-supervisor. The thesis investigated how mode of data collection affects the measurement of personal and subjective wellbeing in surveys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Outputs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Technical report and data<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Publications<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Presentations<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n As part of my role as a survey methodologist in the NCCR LIVES, I was involved in advising on methodological aspects of the design of various surveys conducted in the context of the Individual Projects (IPs). This included contributions to the design of the respondent-driven<\/a> sampling strategy for the LIVES-FORS Cohort Study, the design of the LIVES Event History Calendar used in the Cohort Study and the Swiss Household Panel survey, and a later study investigating mode preferences among participants in the Cohort Study, to inform data collection strategies in subsequent waves. Together with Michel Oris, Dominique Joye and Mich\u00e8le Ernst St\u00e4hli, I collaborated closely with other LIVES researchers on a broader reflection around the methodological and substantive challenges involved in measuring vulnerability across the life course using surveys – particularly among hard-to-reach, hard-to-survey populations. This reflection took the form of a one-day international workshop<\/a> organised by me in 2012, and a co-edited book on the challenges of ‘surveying vulnerabilities’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Outputs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2023, I received LIVES Seed Money to fund a scoping study to assess the demand for and feasibility of conducting a Time Use Survey in Switzerland using digital data collection methods. The feasibility evaluation followed a ‘respondent-centred’ survey design approach, focused on identifying the main barriers to participation in an app-based time-use study (with a particular focus on the relative weight of perceived response burden, digital mistrust and data privacy concerns) and possible ways of addressing them. At the end of 2023, I was awarded additional LIVES Seed Money, and research support funding from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, to extend the feasibility assessment in 2024 with a pilot survey to test an app-based diary tool for respondents to record their activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Please check back soon for more information!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Collaborators: <\/em>Daniel Oesch (UNIL), Marieke Voorpostel (FORS), and Oliver Lipps (FORS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LIVES-FORS Mixed Mode Experiment, 2012-2013 In 2012, I collaborated with Dominique Joye (UNIL) and Mich\u00e8le Ernst St\u00e4hli (FORS), leading on the design, implementation and analysis of a large-scale…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001161,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-276","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/carolineroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/carolineroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/carolineroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/carolineroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/carolineroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/carolineroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/carolineroberts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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