The MIMOD – Mixed Mode Designs for Social Surveys was awarded a Eurostat Grant to support ESS National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) facing the challenges in implementing mixed-mode and multi-device data collection designs.
Istat is leading a Consortium in partnership with CBS (Netherlands), SSB (Norway), STAT (Austria) and Destatis (Germany). A network of supporting countries -INSEE (France), Czech Statistical Office (Czech Republic), Central Statistical Office of Poland (Poland), Statistic Finland (Finland) and Statistics Sweden (Sweden) – provides inputs to the project.
The MIMOD project covers a wide range of topics related to the use of mixed-mode approaches in social surveys, including mode organisation; questionnaire design; mode bias and mode effect; challenges for phone and tablets respondents in CAWI and case management systems. It aims at sharing knowledge on best practices in use in the ESS and streamlining theoretical findings available in the literature in order to create a common understanding and reference guidance to ESS NSIs in their path to the modernisation of official statistics.
The presentation will provide information on the main areas covered by the project, as well as the main outputs. It will include a summary of the results of the survey on the state of the art on mixed-mode designs in ESS social surveys carried out within the project framework activities.