Webinar Series: Survey and Questionnaire Design

Work Package 7 Social Inequalities, through its coordinator, is delighted to announce the launch of a series of methodological seminars that will be open to the entire consortium. The initiative has been developed in collaboration with professors from the Department of Statistics at Sapienza University of Rome, who will share their expertise and guide participants through key methodological approaches.

The course will focus on Survey and Questionnaire Design. It will consist of six one-hour sessions, running from 23 October to 27 November 2025.

Looking ahead, a further course on Statistical Thinking is already planned for early 2026, and more information will be shared in due course.

Link to the webinars will be shared here soon.

Webinar 1 – Thursday, 23 October 2:00-3:00 p.m.  

-  Principles of survey methodology

-   Planning a sample survey: from the research problem definition, to the objectives and hypothesis statement

-   Main sampling strategies

Link to recording here.
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Webinar 2 – Tuesday, 4 November 2:00-3:00 p.m.  

-     Planning a questionnaire

-     Conceptual structure

-     Flux diagrams

Webinar 3 - Thursday 6 November 2:00-3:00 p.m.

-     Question design

-     Question wording

-     Question order and placement

-     Instructions for respondents

Webinar 4 - Tuesday 18 November 2:00-3:00 p.m.

-     Generalities on scaling techniques for survey research: reliability and validity

Webinar 5 - Thursday 20 November 2:00-3:00 p.m.

-     Implementation of electronic questionnaire

-     Questionnaire instructions

Webinar 6 – Thursday 27 November 2:00-3:00 p.m.

-     Pre-testing questionnaire

-     Training for interviewers or questionnaire administrators