General Information

ISSP Methodological Research

The methodological work in the ISSP is coordinated by a Methodology Committee, consisting of seven members elected by the General Meeting. The Methodology Committee is chaired by New Zealand.

The Methodology Committee co-ordinates currently the work of seven groups working on different areas of cross-cultural methods, all concerned with issues of equivalence:

• demography
• non-response
• substitution
• mode effects
• questionnaire design
• translation

For the latest information on the groups' research projects contact the following:

• demography: Markus Quandt or Evi Scholz, GESIS, Germany
• non-response: Dominique Joye, FORS, Switzerland
• substitution: Tom Smith, NORC, USA
• modes: Knut Kalgraff Skjåk, NSD, Norway
• translation and questionnaire design: Philip Gendall, Massey University, New Zealand