Category Archives: GESIS

CfA: “Causality in the Social Sciences III – Heterogeneous Causal Effects”

The workshop “Causality in the Social Sciences III – Heterogeneous Causal Effects” picks up on recent approaches and debates on causal effect heterogeneity from three different angles:

(i) Interpretation of heterogeneous effects,
(ii) estimating heterogeneous effects with observational and experimental data, and
(iii) machine learning techniques for specification search.

Confirmed keynote speakers are Jennie E. Brand (UCLA), and Richard Breen (Oxford University).

We accept a maximum of 15 presentations. Workshop participation is free of charge. Application deadline: 30 June 2021.

For further information and a detailed call for applications, please visit www.gesis.org/causality-workshop.

2nd Virtual GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology

The 10th GESIS Summer School — Europe’s leading summer school in survey methodology, research design, and data collection — will take place online as the 2nd Virtual GESIS Summer School from 28 July to 20 August 2021. Scheduled are four short courses and ten one-week courses. You may earn 4 ECTS credits by writing a

For all relevant information including the full program and detailed course descriptions visit www.gesis.org/summerschool.

37th GESIS Method Seminar (July, 10-18, 2017)

The GESIS Methods Seminar will take place from 10th to 28th July in Cologne.It is aimed at graduate students in the social sciences and humanities as well as related fields.

It consists of five courses, three in German, two in English – all are research based and teach practically relevant skills. The Basismodul, Aufbaumodul I, and Aufbaumodul II are held in German and teach basic knowledge and skills on how to analyse quantitative, scientific data. The Big Data-Modules I and II are held in English and convey knowledge and skills from data science – for example, how to handle and analyse large amounts of data from the internet.

More information and registration here https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&pID=0x2285A1505F2E4A4698D861A1BD0C8F77.

6th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology (August 3-25, 2017)

The program of the 6th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology is online and registration is open. The Summer School 2017 will be held from August 3 to 25 at GESIS Cologne, Germany. 15 courses are scheduled, among them 4 short courses and 11 one-week courses. New to the program are courses on “Preparing data for re-use”, “Structural Equation Modeling for Longitudinal and Panel Data”, and “Meta-Analysis“.

You will find more information on the website at http://bit.ly/2017-gesis-summer-school/.

46th GESIS Spring Seminar: Causal Inference with Observational Data

Date: 06.03 – 24.03.2017

Location: GESIS Location in Cologne. For a list with hotel recommendations, information about Cologne as well as on how to get to GESIS please click here.  

Language of instruction: English

 

Introduction:
The GESIS Spring Seminar (formerly ZA Spring Seminar) has been taking place in Cologne annually for more  than 45 years. It offers three consecutive one-week courses in advanced methods  of quantitative data analysis for Social Scientists. Language of instruction is English.

Week 1 (06.-10.03.2017)

  • Causal Analysis with Panel Data: Potentials and Limitations – Prof. Dr. Michael Windzio, Jun. Prof. Dr. Marco Giesselmann (for further information and registration please click here)

Week 2 (13.-17.03.2017)

  • Structural Equation Models (SEMs)  – Prof. Kenneth Bollen, PhD with Zachary Fisher (for further information and registration please click here)

Week 3 (20.-24.03.2017

  • Potential Outcomes and Treatment Effects: Modern Methods of Causal Inference  – Prof. Dr. Ben Jann, Dr. Rudolf Farys (for further information and registration please click here)

44th GESIS Spring Seminar: Challenges for Empirical Social Science Research: Assessing Data Quality – Identifying Structures in Complex Data

Institution: GESIS Institute for Social Sciences

Date: March 2-20, 2015

Place: GESIS Cologne

Language of instruction: English

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Course Overview: The GESIS Spring Seminar comprises three training courses for social scientists interested in advanced techniques of data analysis and in the application of these techniques to data. Each course comprises lectures and exercises using personal computers. While in the lectures the logic of models and the corresponding analysis strategies are explained, during the exercises participants are given the opportunity to apply these methods to data. Different types of data are investigated in each course. The courses can be booked either separately or as a block.

Each year, the focus of the Spring Seminar is on another key theme. In 2015, it is “Challenges for Empirical Social Science Research: Assessing Data Quality – Identifying Structures in Complex Data”. The three courses mainly deal with various data reduction techniques for identification and visualisation of latent dimensions.

The courses will start on Mondays at 10:00 a.m. and will end on Fridays at about 4:00 p.m.

GESIS: Meet the data: Beziehungs- und Familienpanel (pairfam)

Institution: GESIS Institute for Social Sciences

Lecturer: Dr. Claudia Schmiedeberg, Nina Schumann & Philipp Schütze,  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Date: December 4-5, 2014

Place: GESIS Mannheim

Language of instruction: German

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Course Overview: Das Beziehungs‐ und Familienpanel pairfam („Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics“) ist eine multidisziplinäre Längsschnittstudie zur Erforschung partnerschaftlicher und familialer Lebensformen in Deutschland. Das auf 14 Jahre angelegte DFG-finanzierte Langfristvorhaben startete im Jahr 2008 mit einer Ausgangsstichprobe von 12.402 zufällig ausgewählten Ankerpersonen. Die im jährlichen Abstand durchgeführten Befragungen der Ankerpersonen sowie ihrer Partner, Eltern und Kinder ermöglichen eine detaillierte Analyse partnerschaftlicher und familialer Verläufe. Die Längsschnittstruktur und das Multi-Actor-Design bieten dabei einzigartige Potenziale, erfordern jedoch auch spezielle Kenntnisse in der Datenaufbereitung und -analyse.

Im Rahmen dieses Workshops werden die Datenstruktur und die verfügbaren Datensätze der ersten fünf pairfam-Wellen vorgestellt sowie Analysemöglichkeiten anhand von anwendungsorientierten Beispielen präsentiert. Dies beinhaltet konkrete Hinweise zum Datenmanagement (z.B. Zusammenführen verschiedener Datensätze für Quer- und Längsschnittanalysen, Verwendung generierter Variablen und Datensätze) sowie die gemeinsame Umsetzung von Beispielanalysen unter Anwendung von Verfahren der Längsschnittdatenanalyse (Panel- und Ereignisdatenanalyse). Darüber hinaus wird es eine Einführung in Design, Stichprobe, inhaltliche Themengebiete und Dokumentationsmaterialien der Studie geben.

Für die anwendungsorientierte Umsetzung wird das Statistikprogramm Stata verwendet.

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GESIS: Offene Fragen und quantitative Inhaltsanalyse

Institution: GESIS Institute for Social Sciences

Lecturer: Cornelia Züll, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Date: December 2-3, 2014

Place: GESIS Mannheim

Language of instruction: German

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Course Overview: Gegenstand des Workshops ist der Umgang mit offenen Fragen, wie sie in einem ansonsten standardisierten Fragebogen eingesetzt werden. Das Themenspektrum umfasst verschiedene Ansätze der Codierung der Antworten. Dazu gehören die konventionelle Inhaltsanalyse mit und ohne Software-Unterstützung genauso wie die dictionär-basierte (automatische) Inhaltsanalyse. Zunächst wird kurz auf die offene Frage im Interview eingegangen, bevor die zentrale Frage des Codierens der Antworten mit Hilfe der Inhaltsanalyse diskutiert wird. Hier wird der Workshop ausführlich die folgenden Themen ansprechen: Erstellung eines Kategoriensystems, verschiedene Möglichkeiten der Kategoriendefinition, der Codierprozess selbst und die Frage der Reliabilität und Validität der Kategorien und Codierungen. Im Anschluss daran wird kurz auf andere Formen der Analyse von offene Fragen eingegangen.

In praktischen Übungen kommt sowohl die manuelle als auch die computergestützte Inhaltsanalyse zur Anwendung. Statistische Programme zur Auswertung der Codierdaten, z.B. SPSS, werden nur am Rande behandelt.

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GESIS: Harmonizing your data with CharmStats

Institution: GESIS Institute for Social Sciences

Lecturer: Dr. Kristi Winters, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Date: November 27-28, 2014

Place: GESIS Köln

Language of instruction: English

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Course Overview: Harmonizing variables is an important part of social research but precise and transparent documentation of harmonization can be time-consuming and tedious. The GESIS software package CharmStats provides a quick and easy way to harmonize your variables. CharmStats allows you to work with your own variables, to document the process as you go and even electronically publish your completed harmonizations for review and citation.

In ’Harmonizing your data with CharmStats’ participants will receive the software packages QuickCharmStats and CharmStats Pro and training in them. The course content includes advice on planning a data harmonization strategy, data management practices, the CharmStats interface, importing data for use in CharmStats, creating Projects in CharmStats, how to generate syntax for use in SPSS and Stata with QuickCharmStats, and how to publish harmonizations as citable references with CharmStats Pro.

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GESIS: Quality in mixed methods research

Institution: GESIS Institute for Social Sciences

Lecturer: Prof. Alan Bryman, University of Leicester

Date: November 27, 2014

Place: GESIS Mannheim

Language of instruction: English

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Course Overview: This talk will introduce some of the main quality considerations involved in mixed methods research. It will begin by asking questions about why quality criteria are an issue for social researchers generally and then examine some of the ways in which quality criteria are couched in the context of both quantitative and qualitative research. The session will explore the different contexts of mixed methods research and their implications for quality issues. It then examines different approaches to bespoke criteria for mixed methods research using several examples to illustrate the general points made. Some general themes are extracted from these writings and are employed as a structure for the rest of the talk. At the end, some general lessons and implications will be drawn.

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