Panel Research

Programme

Monday 27 November

09:00 - 17:00 Workshop
Advanced quantitative techniques
10:00 - 17:00 Conference registration
19:00 - 20:30 Welcome reception

Tuesday 28 November

  • Conference day 1
  • Networking drinks

WELCOME AND OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

09:00 - 09:15: Opening
Fredrik Nauckhoff, ESOMAR Immediate Past President

Introduction to the programme and keynote
Randall K. Thomas, Programme Committee Chair and Director and Senior Research Scientist, Research and Methodology, Harris Interactive, USA

KEYNOTE

09:15 - 09:45 The future of online research

Don Dillman, Professor at Washington State University, USA

09:45 - 09:55 Q&A

QUALITY OF PANELS

09:55 - 10:00 Introduction by session chair
Randall K. Thomas, Harris Interactive, USA
10:00 - 10:25 Panel and Data Quality: Comparing Metrics & Assessing Claims
Renee Smith, Holland Hofma Brown, Harris Interactive Inc., USA
10:25 - 10:50 The effect of conditioning when re-interviewing
A pan-European study
Trixie Cartwright, TNS plc, London, UK
Clive Nancarrow, Bristol Business School, UK
10:50 - 11:00 Discussion
11:00 - 11:30 Refreshment break
11:30 - 11:55 Assessing individual respondents’ quality:
An innovative scoring system
Christian Loeb, Adriane Hartmann, MediaTransfer AG Netresearch & Consulting, Germany
11:55 - 12:20 Attitudinal differences
Comparing people who belong to multiple versus single panels
Brian Fine, Con Menictas, Dimitrio Casdas, AMR Interactive, Australia
12:20 - 12:45 Benefits and challenges of multi-sourcing
Understanding differences between sample sources
Olivier de Gaudemar, OTX, USA
12:45 - 13:00 Discussion
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:15 Company presentation - Confirmit
The next generation sample selection and panel management platform
14:15 - 14:30 Quality Standards for Panels
Adam Phillips, Chairman, ESOMAR Professional Standards Committee
14:30 - 14:40 Discussion
14:40 - 15:15 The effects of panel recruitment and management on research results
A study across 19 online panels
Pieter Willems, Millward Brown / Centrum, Netherlands
Robert van Ossenbruggen, ProCression, Netherlands
Ted Vonk, Onderzoekpaleis, Netherlands
15:15 - 15:25 Discussion

THE RESPONDENT

15:25 - 15:30 Introduction by session chair
Niels Schillewaert, InSites Consulting, Belgium
15:30 - 15:55 Motivations to join
What language do online panellists need to hear to volunteer?
Howard R. Moskowitz, Alex Gofman, Moskowitz Jacobs Inc., USA
Leyla Namiranian, Decision Analyst, Inc., USA
15:55 - 16:20 The games we play
A psychoanalysis of the relationship between panel owners and panel participants
Pete Comley, Virtual Surveys Limited, UK
16:20 - 16:30 Discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Refreshment break
17:00 - 17:25 It’s the culture, stupid!
A cross-cultural comparison of data collection methods
Bart Wichers, Evelien Zengerink, TNS NIPO, Netherlands
17:25 - 17:50 Building online multi-cultural opinion communities
The next level of panel research?
Adriana Rocha, Claudia Feler, eCGlobalPanel Inc., USA
17:50 - 18:00 Discussion
18:00 - 19:00 Networking drinks

Wednesday 29 November

  • Conference day 2
  • Farewell drinks

INDUSTRY ISSUES

09:00 - 09:05 Introduction by session chair
Kees de Jong, Survey Sampling International, Netherlands
09:05 - 09:25 Privacy laws, internet scams and other challenges affecting panel research
Strategies to mitigate risk and build trust
David Stark, TNS Canadian Facts, Canada
09:25 - 09:30 Discussion
09:30 - 09:55 Refreshment break

NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENTS

09:55 - 10:00 Introduction by session chair
Efrain Ribeiro, TNS, USA
10:00 - 10:25 Social class and life style differences between modes of data collection
Niels Schillewaert, Annelies Verhaeghe, InSites Consulting, Belgium
Bert Weijters, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Kristof De Wulf, XL Online Panels, Belgium
10:25 - 10:50 Gaining synergy through multi-method research
A Nokia Trends case study
Ivan Casas, Gonzalo Peña, eCMetrics, USA
Calixto Pérez-Galán, Nokia Latin America, Mexico
10:50 - 10:55 Discussion
10:55 - 11:20 How not to kill the goose that lays the golden egg
A new approach to incentives in online access panels
Pete Cape, Survey Sampling International, UK
11:20 - 11:45 Emerging from the shadow of consumer panels
B2B challenges and best practice
Marek Vaygelt, Freelance Consultant, UK

IMPROVING DATA QUALITY

14:30 - 14:35 Introduction by session chair
Roberto Sainz, Grupo Zena, Spain
14:35 - 14:55 Ensuring data integrity for business decisions
An in-depth analysis of the components that affect data quality
David Day, Ralph Risk, Jenny Koo, Lightspeed Research, UK
Birgi Martin, Lightspeed Research, USA
14:55 - 15:15 Response rates: Avoiding the red herrings
Andrei Postoaca, Ipsos Interactive Services Europe, Romania
15:15 - 15:35 Great results from ambiguous sources
Cleaning internet panel data
Theo Downes-Le Guin, Joanne Mechling, Doxus, USA
Reg Baker, Market Strategies, USA
15:35 - 15:45 Discussion
15:45 - 16:15 Interactive Group Session Presentations
Moderated by: Kees de Jong, Survey Sampling International, Netherlands
16:15 - 16:40 Refreshment break
16:40 - 16:45 Introduction to keynote
Randall K. Thomas, Harris Interactive, USA

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

16:45 - 17:15
Tracy Hampton, Senior Vice President – Research Services, Visa International, USA
17:15 - 17:20 Q&A

PROGRAMME SUMMARY AND CLOSING

17:20 - 17:30 Programme Summary
Randall K. Thomas, Harris Interactive, USA
  Closing of the conference
José Ignacio Wert, ESOMAR President
17:30 – 18:00 Farewell drinks