Panel Design Program

WORKSHOP
Panel Survey Design
May 6-12, 2013

Staszic Palace, Nowy Swiat 72

Warsaw, Poland

Day 1

Monday, May 6

Arrivals of international guests

Activity:  Orientation (Informal meeting)

Day 2

Tuesday, May 7

Room 154

10:00-11:00

  • Welcoming Comments: Andrzej Rychard, Director IFiS PAN
  • Organizational Matters
  • Lecture: Brief Overview of POLPAN, Kazimierz M. Słomczyński, with assistance of Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:30
Lecture POLPAN and Other Panel Studies in Europe, Kazimierz M. Słomczyński and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, with assistance of Marta Kołczyńska

14:00-15:00
Lecture: Sampling: Sampling Frame, Target Populations, Sampling Procedures, Attrition – Part I, Zbigniew Sawiński

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-16:00
Lecture: Sampling: Sampling Frame, Target Populations, Sampling Procedures, Attrition – Part II, Zbigniew Sawiński

16:00-16:30
Discussion / Exercises

After-class activity: Walking tour of Warsaw

Day 3

Wednesday, May 8

Room 154

10:00-11:00
Lecture: Contacting Potential Respondents: Letters &Inserts; Gifts. Dealing with Nonresponse, Part I, Paweł Sztabiński and Franciszek Sztabiński

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:00
Lecture: Contacting Potential Respondents: Letters & Inserts; Gifts. Dealing with Nonresponse, Part II, Paweł Sztabiński

12:00-12:30
Discussion / Exercises

14:00-15:00
Lecture: Fieldwork: Training, Coordination and Monitoring of Interviewers, Part I, Franciszek Sztabiński and Paweł Sztabiński

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-16:00
Lecture: Fieldwork: Training, Coordination and Monitoring of Interviewers, Part II, Franciszek Sztabiński

16:00-17:00
Discussion: Ethical Issues of Panel Studies, Katarzyna Andrejuk and Teresa Żmijewska

Day 4

Thursday, May 9

Room 158

10:00-11:00
Lecture: Methodological Issues on Panel Survey Administration: Relevant Variables in POLPAN, Kazimierz M. Słomczyński, with assistance of Katarzyna Andrejuk

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:30
Lecture: Designing and Evaluating Panel Survey Questions: Panel-Specific Categories of Keep, Drop, Reintroduce, and Develop New, Kazimierz M. Słomczyński and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, with assistance of Ewa Jarosz and Kinga Wysieńska

14:00-15:00
Lab: Special presentation: CONVERTER Program, Zbigniew Sawiński

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-16:00
Lecture: Mixed Mode Panel Surveys, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Zbigniew Sawiński, with assistance of Ania Baczko

16:00-16:30
Discussion / Exercises

18:30 Dinner

Day 5

Friday, May 10

Room 154

10:00-11:00
Lecture: Occupational Classifications and Constructing Social-Class Categories, Henryk Domański

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:00
Lecture: Occupational Scales, Henryk Domański and Kazimierz M. Słomczyński

12:00-12:30
Discussion / Exercises

14:00-15:00
Lecture: How to Represent Income in Comparative Metric for 25 years? Anna Kiersztyn

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-16:30
Activity: Individual consultations

Faculty: Kazimierz M. Słomczyński, Krystyna Janicka, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Joshua Dubrow

Day 6

Saturday, May 11

Room 158

10:00-12:30
Activity: Small group project meetings

Faculty: Kazimierz M. Słomczyński, Krystyna Janicka, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Joshua Dubrow

14:00-16:00
Activity: Small group project meetings

Faculty: Kazimierz M. Słomczyński, Krystyna Janicka, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Joshua Dubrow

Day 7

Sunday, May 12

Room 158

10:00-12:30
Activity: Small group presentations

Faculty: Kazimierz Słomczyński, Krystyna Janicka, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Joshua Dubrow

13:00 Lunch & Concluding Comments