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A smart Travel Survey. What is the role of the respondent?
An evaluation of in-app respondent behvaiour in travel surveys.
Mode-specific measurement biases and selection biases in health statistics
Mixed-mode adaptive survey designs have become a standard in many survey settings. Also the combination of mixing modes and adapting effort has been elaborated and applied. However, the focus has...
A smart Travel Survey. Results of a push-to-smart field experiment in the Netherlands
An evaluation of push-to-smart methodology in travel surveys
Constructing behaviour profiles for answer behaviour across surveys
Dissertation on an evaluation of various forms of answering behaviour in surveys.
Counting for EU enlargement? Census-taking in Croatia, Bosnia and Macedonia
Dissertation on the variation in census-taking outcomes in Croatia, Bosnia and Macedonia to understand why even though they had the same EU conditions to comply with, their census processes were so...
Informed design of mixed-mode surveys: Evaluating mode effects on measurement and selection error
Dissertation on various mode-effect estimation methods based on re-interview studies.
Optimal resource allocation in Adaptive Survey Designs
Dissertation on an evaluation of different optimization strategies towards adaptive mixed-mode survey design accounting for measurement error.
Improving survey fieldwork with paradata
Dissertation on reducing survey non-response, the effects on the bias of the estimates, and the use of paradata to improve the survey design.
Difficult groups in survey research and the development of tailor-made approach strategies
Dissertation on groups that are difficult to observe in survey research and how to adapt the survey design accordingly.
The hunt for the last respondent: Nonresponse in sample surveys
Dissertation on the causes of nonresponse and how these insights can be used to use the budget for fieldwork efficiently.
Cognitive laboratory experiences: On pre-testing computerised questionnaires and data quality
Dissertation on practical experiences with pre-testing research.
Design and analysis of experiments embedded in complex sample surveys
This thesis develops design-based analysis methods for field experiments that take into account the design of the probability sample by which units are drawn from a finite population and the...
Eigenvalue techniques for qualitative data
Dissertation on different statistical techniques that can be used to analyse qualitative data.
Working with non-response (in Dutch)
Dissertation on processing sample survey data when non-response occurs in the collection stage.