Survey Mode Integration and Data Fusion: Methods and Challenges

Bayart, Caroline; Bonnel, Patrick; Morency, Catherine

doi:10.1108/9781848558458-034

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“…Its use as a survey mode in combination with others is very promising in view of the steady rise in non-responses for other survey modes in many countries. To reduce the bias from non-response Bayart & al. (2008) have tested a webbased survey in parallel with a household travel survey in the Lyon area.…”

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Lessons from an Overview of National Transport Surveys, from Working Group 3 of COST 355: ‘Changing Behavior Toward a More Sustainable Transport System’

Armoogum¹,

Axhausen²,

Madre³

2009

Transport Survey Methods

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This chapter summarizes some of the results from the Working Group "National Travel Surveys" in COST Action 355, but all the 50 presentations could not be taken into account. Thus, we focus on three crucial topics : the periodicity of data collection, but also its longitudinal aspects (advantages of continuous surveying, repeated cross-sections versus panel surveys, etc.), new technologies for improving the efficiency and accuracy of mobility surveys (computer assisted phone, web,... interviews ; GPS, GSM, RDS, etc.), innovative approaches, with the examples of qualitative surveys combined with conventional quantitative ones, and of Biographical approaches.

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Lessons from an Overview of National Transport Surveys, from Working Group 3 of COST 355: ‘Changing Behavior Toward a More Sustainable Transport System’

Armoogum¹,

Axhausen²,

Madre³

2009

Transport Survey Methods

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“…Exact matching is a process in which an individual from a data set is matched with the same individual from a different data set. In other words, each record is unique and identifiable, and it is only matched with a record for the same individual when linking data between different data sets ( 5 ). Exact matching often uses identifiers such as name, address, or social insurance number to match the same subject across different data files.…”

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“…Implicit modeling transfers values of specific variables based on records with no missing data and similar common variables ( 5 ). Implicit modeling relies on similarities between observed data sets to transfer values from donor records to receptor records.…”

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Data Fusion of Commercial Vehicle GPS and Roadside Intercept Survey Data

Zhu

Amirjamshidi

Roorda

2018

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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GPS tracking technology produces large amounts of data which represent samples of the commercial vehicle population that are much larger than conventional commercial travel surveys. However, passively collected GPS data lack behavioral detail that a conventional survey offers. This study develops a data fusion method to impute variables of interest for a large GPS data set, by establishing a link to a behaviorally rich commercial travel survey data set. As a case study, this study uses detailed information from the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario’s Commercial Vehicle Survey (CVS), a truck intercept survey conducted in 2012, to enrich a GPS commercial vehicle tracking data set from Xata Turnpike Inc. The enrichment process has three parts: converting raw GPS tracking data into GPS trips, matching CVS trips to GPS trips, and imputing the missing variables for GPS trips. Evaluation of the outcomes concludes that imputation methods can produce a synthetic data set with large sample size (from GPS data) and rich information (from roadside interview data) with good accuracy.

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“…For whether to combine survey modes or not, see e.g Bayart et al (2009). and De Leeuw (2005).7 We would like to thank the researchers and their collaborators for their interest in and cooperation with our study.8 Australian Election Study (AES), British Election Study (BES), German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), which are all precursors for the "Comparative Candidates Survey" (CES), see https ://www.austr alian elect ionst udy.org/about .html; and http://www.compa rativ ecand idate s.org/node/3.…”

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“…This is an argumentation to try to combine different survey modes to avoid such biases. However, combining different survey modes has its own pitfalls, see e.g Bayart et al (2009). and De Leeuw (2005).14 It is recommendable to avoid conducting a study during an election campaign period for another reason as well: to allow for comparability of such a study's findings to other studies fielded outside of an election campaign period.…”

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Conducting quantitative studies with the participation of political elites: best practices for designing the study and soliciting the participation of political elites

Vis

Stolwijk²

2020

Qual Quant

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Conducting quantitative research (e.g., surveys, a large number of interviews, experiments) with the participation of political elites is typically challenging. Given that a population of political elites is typically small by definition, a particular challenge is obtaining a sufficiently high number of observations and, thus, a certain response rate. This paper focuses on two questions related to this challenge: (1) What are best practices for designing the study? And (2) what are best practices for soliciting the participation of political elites? To arrive at these best practices, we (a) examine which factors explain the variation in response rates across surveys within and between large-scale, multi-wave survey projects by statistically analyzing a newly compiled dataset of 342 political elite surveys from eight projects, spanning 30 years and 58 countries, (b) integrate the typically scattered findings from the existing literature and (c) discuss results from an original expert survey among researchers with experience with such research (n = 23). By compiling a comprehensive list of best practices, systematically testing some widely held believes about response rates and by providing benchmarks for response rates depending on country, survey mode and elite type, we aim to facilitate future studies where participation of political elites is required. This will contribute to our knowledge and understanding of political elites’ opinions, information processing and decision making and thereby of the functioning of representative democracies.

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Survey Mode Integration and Data Fusion: Methods and Challenges

Cited by 22 publications

References 31 publications

Lessons from an Overview of National Transport Surveys, from Working Group 3 of COST 355: ‘Changing Behavior Toward a More Sustainable Transport System’

Lessons from an Overview of National Transport Surveys, from Working Group 3 of COST 355: ‘Changing Behavior Toward a More Sustainable Transport System’

Data Fusion of Commercial Vehicle GPS and Roadside Intercept Survey Data

Conducting quantitative studies with the participation of political elites: best practices for designing the study and soliciting the participation of political elites

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