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Research on survey methodology

In the SOM surveys and the Swedish Citizen Panel, the SOM Institute conduct research in the academic field of survey methodology. The main purpose of our survey methodology research is to assess, strengthen, and advance the research methods used by the SOM Institute.

In order to ensure quick access to our, both bigger and smaller, methodological advancements, we regularly make our findings in survey methodology public by presenting them in short notes. This series of publications started in 2021 and is referred to as Notes on Survey Methodology.

The SOM Institute’s Notes on Survey Methodology

2024

The SOM Institute's Notes on Survey Methodology 2024:2

Effects of push-to-web in paper-and-pencil and online mixed mode surveys (pdf)
Frida Sandelin

The SOM Institute's Notes on Survey Methodology 2024:1

Reassessing incentive effects: Further exploring the role of diversified incentives on persons aged 18-39 and persons born outside the Nordics (pdf)
Frida Sandelin & Elisabeth Falk

2023

The SOM Institute's Notes on Survey Methodology 2023:5

The implications of offering questionnaires in multiple languages (pdf)
Sebastian Lundmark, Björn Rönnerstrand & Frida Sandelin

The SOM Institute's Notes on Survey Methodology 2023:4

Breaking the conversational norm: Up means good, but left only means left (pdf)
Freja Wessman & Felix Cassel

The SOM Institute's Notes on Survey Methodology 2023:3

Investigating acquiescence response bias in a few Swedish questions (pdf)
Freja Wessman

The SOM Institute's Notes on Survey Methodology 2023:2

The impact sampling strategies have on experimental treatment effects (pdf)
Alexandra Garcia Nilsson & Sophie Cassel

The SOM Institute’s Notes on Survey Methodology 2023:1

The effects of diversified incentives among two hard-to-reach groups in Sweden: persons aged 18-39 and persons born outside the Nordics (pdf)
Frida Sandelin & Elisabeth Falk

2022

The SOM Institute’s Notes on Survey Methodology 2022:2

Verbal labels and the number of response options in grid-type questions (pdf)
Sebastian Lundmark

The SOM Institute’s Notes on Survey Methodology 2022:1

The effects of questionnaire length on response rate, non-response bias and data quality (pdf)
Frida Sandelin

2021

The SOM Institute’s Notes on Survey Methodology 2021:2

The Trivial Pursuit effect: How political knowledge questions affect self-reported political interest (pdf)
Felix Andersson & Sebastian Lundmark

The SOM Institute’s Notes on Survey Methodology 2021:1

Effects of a fourth postal reminder in the SOM-surveys (pdf)
Frida Sandelin

Previous series on survey methodology

Between 2013 and 2019 the SOM institute published a series of Methodological notes and Working papers. At the moment, these documents are only available on the Swedish language version of this page.

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