As part of an ongoing effort to promote quality in multipopulation surveys and to raise the level of methodological expertise in various applied fields of comparative survey research, the Second International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts will be held July 2016 in Chicago (3MC 2016).
This conference will bring together researchers and survey practitioners concerned with survey methodology and practice in comparative contexts. It will provide a unique opportunity to discuss and present research that contributes to our understanding of survey needs and methods in multi-cultural, multi-national, and multi-lingual contexts. Conference contributions will help document current best practices and stimulate new ideas for further research and development.
We invite all interested researchers and practitioners to submit abstracts to be considered for Invited Papers. An accompanying edited volume presenting state-of-the-art research and practice will be published with John Wiley & Sons. The expectation is that Invited Papers become chapters in the edited volume.
The following is a list of possible topics under large headings planned for the conference sessions and the monograph (these may be expanded and re-organized, and the submitting abstracts are not required to indicate where they think their abstract might “fit”):
- Theory of comparability
- Study design in a comparative context
- Sampling approaches
- Quality control and monitoring
- Multi-cultural questionnaire design and testing
- Translation and adaptation
- Choice of mode and technical approaches
- Regulatory environment and ethics reviews
- Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts data collection challenges and approaches
- Innovative approaches to analysis
- Data documentation and dissemination
The deadline for submitting abstracts is July 1, 2014.
To submit the abstract and for any further information see the CSDI website.