Building Better Social Data Together: Challenges, Innovations, and Lessons from Research Infrastructures

Building Better Social Data Together: Challenges, Innovations, and Lessons from Research Infrastructures

How can we continue to collect high-quality and representative social data as response rates decline, survey modes change and traditional data collection becomes more demanding?

This workshop brings together experts involved in major Czech, Swiss and international surveys and research infrastructures to share their practical experience with these challenges.

The programme will include the Czech–Swiss CORISS project, a field experiment on survey incentives in the European Social Survey, Swiss experience with changes in survey modes and incentive strategies, lessons from the Generations and Gender Programme, and a perspective on data collection for official statistics.

Rather than presenting a single solution, the workshop is intended as a space for exchanging experiences: What problems are major surveys currently facing? What methodological innovations have already been tested? What works, what remains difficult, and where do we need to innovate next?

The presentations will be followed by a joint discussion with speakers and participants.

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Programme

13:00–13:10 Welcome and introduction

13:10–13:25
CORISS: Rethinking How Social Data Are Collected, Shared and Reused
Petra Raudenská, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences

13:25–13:50
Do Prepaid Incentives Work? Evidence from a Czech ESS Field Experiment
Jaroslava Pospíšilová, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences

13:50–14:30
Adapting Survey Data Collection: Lessons from Switzerland
Michèle Ernst Stähli, FORS | c/o University of Lausanne, Géopolis; Switzerland

14:30–14:45 Coffee break

14:45–15:10
Using a household frame and a random-digit dialing method to sample individuals- recent experience from the Czech GGS-II. survey
Martin Kreidl, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University

15:10–15:35
Data Collection for Official Statistics: Challenges and New Directions
Martin Zelený, Czech Statistical Office, Presidency Team

15:35–16:00
Joint discussion: Where Does Social Data Collection Need to Innovate?

The organization of the workshop was achieved as part of the project 8K0206 CZ-CH CORISS funded by the Czech-Swiss Cooperation in Research Infrastructures program within the Second Swiss Contribution to Selected EU Member States, administered by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.