Survey Methodology and Missing Data

Seppo Laaksonen is a professor of statistics at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and has worked at various survey institutes including Statistics Finland, Eurostat and The Finnish Center for Social and Health Research. The former scientific secretary (2001-2003) and vice president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (2007-2009), he has been a member of the sampling expert team of the European Social Survey since 2001. He has also been involved in a number of European research projects and is a consultant for surveys in Moldova, Ethiopia, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and Hungary.

Introduction.- Concept of survey and key survey terms.- Designing a questionnaire and survey modes.- Sampling principles and missingness mechanisms.- Design effects at sampling phase.- Sampling design data file.- Missingness, its reasons and treatment.- Weighting adjustments due to unit missingness.- Special cases in weighting.- Statistical editing.- Introduction to statistical imputation.- Imputation methods for single variables.- Summary and key tasks of survey data cleaning.- Basic survey data analysis.-