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Developing the NatCen panel
No full textCurtis Jessop talks at the NCRM Autumn School 2017
https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/autumn
Developing a Public Engagement Strategy
Get PDFThe guide is designed to help the researcher build a strategy and plan for public engagement (PE) in their research that is appropriate and meaningful. The focus of this guide is on PE for research that securely uses administrative data, although the principles may be applicable to other research areas.
The guide is split into two key parts: the five key questions you will need to work through in order to create your public engagement strategy and; the practical issues you will need to consider in order to plan the type of public engagement activity you will undertake
Ethics, social media research, and users views
No full textCurtis Jessop talks at the NCRM Autumn School 2017
https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/autumn
Methods used in community studies (part 2 of 3)
No full textProfessor Graham Crow in the second (of three) part of the NCRM online resource on ‘The rationale and research design of community studies’. This video is part of the online learning resources from the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM). To access all videos and the supporting materials (presentation slides, datasets, recommended reading, links to related publications and resources) visit https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/online/community_studies
Estimating stochastic survey response errors using the multitrait-multierror model
Get PDFResponse errors of different types, including acquiescence, social desirability, and random error, are well-known to be present in surveys simultaneously and to bias substantive results. Nevertheless, most methods developed to estimate and correct for such errors concentrate on a single error type at a time. Consequently, estimation of response errors is inefficient and their relative importance unknown. Furthermore, if multiple potential errors are not evaluated simultaneously, questionnaire pretests may give the wrong answer regarding the best question form. In this paper, we propose a new method to estimate and control for multiple types of errors concurrently, which we call the “multitrait-multierror” (MTME) approach. MTME combines the theory of experimental design with latent variable modeling to efficiently estimate response errors of different types simultaneously and evaluate which are most impactful on a given question. We demonstrate the usefulness of our method using six commonly asked questions on attitudes towards immigrants in a representative UK study. For these questions, method effect (11-point vs. 2-point scales) was one of the largest response errors, impacting both reliability as well as the size of social desirability
Planning for meeting the challenges: Making practical use of a typology from the Pedagogy of Methodological Learning study
Get PDFTeachers/trainers face the challenge of building competence with research methods. This session examines these challenges using the lens of pedagogic research in the field. Research has illuminated how practitioners are responding to the pedagogic challenges in the research methods arena. In this interactive workshop session participants use the typology from the Pedagogy of Methodological Learning study to share, explore and develop approaches, strategies, tactics and tasks for teaching different methods and responding to different challenges
Do interviewers moderate the effect of monetary incentives on response rates in household interview surveys
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Casual inference: evidencing the single case | Professor Nancy Cartwright
No full textIn this keynote speech from the NCRM 2018 Methods Festival, Professor Nancy Cartwright presents her argument that it is possible to obtain good evidence for causation from a single case
NCRM podcast: Using satellites to slash survey costs
No full textCarrying out surveys on hard to reach populations in far flung parts of the world can be challenging and expensive. But researchers from the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford have used freely available satellite images to help identify and sample households in Thailand and Laos, as part of a research project looking at medicine and health behaviours. Ahead of their presentation at the 2018 Research Methods Festival, we catch up with Marco Haenssgen and Ern Charoenboon in the middle of their field work to discuss how their work will help other researchers save money whilst gathering data that could help the global health crisis of our growing resistance to antibiotics