Sandra Walzenbach

Box: 40
Phone: +49 (0) 7531 88-2167
Room: F 538
Email: sandra.walzenbach@uni-konstanz.de

Office hours: Monday, 1-2 p.m.


Research Interests

  • Survey Methodology: sensitive questions, Randomized Response Techniques and Crosswise Model, interviewer effects, and falsifications by interviewers
  • Factorial Surveys
  • Methods of Empirical Social Research

Current Teaching

- Environmental Sociology (BA-Project Seminar)

Projects

- Data quality in surveys (PhD Project)

Publications and Presentations

(forthcoming) (with Katrin Auspurg and Thomas Hinz): “Are Factorial Survey Experiments Prone to Survey Mode Effects?” In: Allyson Holbrook, Paul Lawrakas [Eds], Experimental Methods in Survey Research: Techniques that Combine Random Sampling with Random Assignment. Wiley.

(2016) (with Thomas Hinz, Konstantin Mozer): Lebendige Nachbarschaften und Lebenszufriedenheit: Ergebnisse der Konstanzer Bürgerbefragung 2015 - 8. Welle. Stadt Konstanz.

Hiding Sensitive Topics by Design? An Experiment on the Reduction of Social Desirability Bias in Factorial Surveys. Presentation at der European Survey Research Association (ESRA) 2015, Reykjavik.

Pouring Water into the Wine. The Advantages of the Crosswise Model asking Sensitive Questions revisited. Presentation at the VIU Rational Choice Conference 2014, Venice.

Do Falsifiers leave Traces? About the Potential of questionnaire-immanent indicators to identify falsifications by interviewers. Poster presentation at the German Association for Sociology (DGS) 2012, Bochum.

Scientific Career

CV Sandra Walzenbach