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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;">The program for the 3rd <a href="http://www.gesis.org/summerschool"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);">GESIS Summer School in
Survey Methodology</span></a> 2014 is online and registration is open. The Summer School will be held from August 7 to 29 at GESIS Cologne, Germany. We would be grateful if you could share this announcement with potential participants. </span><span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Here
is an overview of the courses on offer this year:</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;">Short courses (August 7-8):</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course A: Introduction to Research Data Management for Social Scientists</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course B: Qualitative Methods</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;">Week 1 (August 11-15):</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 1: Introduction to Survey Design*</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 2: Design and Implementation of Surveys in Developing Countries</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 3: Mixed Methods*</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 4: Introduction to the Structural Equation Modeling Framework</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 5: Introduction to Web Surveys*</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 6: Introduction to Data Analysis Using R</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;">Week 2 (August 18-22):</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 7: Understanding and Modeling Measurement Error</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 8: Experimental Techniques in Survey Research</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 9: Web Survey Instrument Design*</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 10: Item Nonresponse and Multiple Imputation</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 11: Mixed-Mode Surveys*</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 12: Questionnaire Design*</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;">Week 3 (August 25-29):</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 13: Factorial Survey Designs</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 14: Design and Implementation of Longitudinal Surveys*</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 15: Data Quality and Fieldwork Management*</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 16: Sampling, Weighting, and Estimation</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 17: Questionnaires for Cross-Cultural Surveys</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;"> Course 18: Surveying Large Scale Political Events</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;">Thanks to our cooperation with <a href="http://gess.uni-mannheim.de/CDSS/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);">CDSS, University
of Mannheim</span></a>, participants can obtain up to 4 ECTS points per one-week course. Starred courses this year take place in collaboration with <a href="http://www.gesis.org/unser-angebot/daten-erheben/gesis-panel/gesis-panel-campus/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);">GESIS
Panel Campus</span></a>. In addition to courses, we have also thanks to our <a href="http://www.gesis.org/index.php?id=6488"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);">sponsors</span></a> prepared a number of plenary and social events including
weekly welcome receptions with finger food and drinks on the GESIS roof terrace, cultural and social outing as well as evening talks by experts in Survey Methodology. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;">The registration deadline is May 31st (but in order to secure a place and affordable accommodation, we recommend early registration). Those who book and
pay for a course by April 30th will receive a 50 Euro discount off the one-week course fees. A limited number of bursaries, provided by the <a href="http://www.daad.de"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);">German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD)</span></a>, is available for international participants.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px;">You'll find more information on our website at <a href="http://www.gesis.org/summerschool"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);">www.gesis.org/summerschool</span></a>. </span></div>
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