CSDI 2027 Save the Date!

Thanks to all who attended for making the 2026 CSDI Workshop another success! The Executive Committee has been making plans for the next workshop in 2027, and we have selected the location and dates for this upcoming year. Here are the details so far:

Location:         Brussels, Belgium

Venue:             Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), CEVIPOL – Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique

Dates:              March 22 – 24, 2027 (Monday – Wednesday)

Cost:                € 100 (estimated – it will not exceed that amount)

We would like to thank the team at the University of Brussels for offering to host and help plan the 2027 workshop in coordination with colleagues at the Verian Group. We are confident this will serve as another wonderful location for our next workshop.

We will be sending out the call for session abstracts in mid-October, with a mid-November deadline. We’ll then open submissions for individual abstracts shortly after we receive the proposed sessions. Please watch for a link with further details about the conference and the abstract timeline at that point.

Thank you all and we look forward to seeing many of you in Brussels next year!

Call for 2027 Session Abstracts

Session abstracts should have at least three papers, complete with titles and authors (more papers and sessions may be added when responses to the call for individual contributions are received and reviewed). If the session is accepted, the session organizer must solicit the individual paper abstracts for that session and ensure each author submits their own abstract by the individual abstract deadline.

The list of suggested topics for this year is as follows:

• Achieving cross-national and cross-cultural comparability
• Questionnaire development, cognitive testing, and validation
• Translation, adaptation, and assessment
• Measurement quality and measurement error
• Interviewer effects and interviewer-interaction research
• Sampling innovations and hybrid sample designs
• Mixed-mode and adaptive survey designs
• Data collection challenges, participation, and respondent engagement
• Quality assurance and quality control
• AI, automation, and digital innovations in survey methodology
• Paradata and process data across the survey lifecycle
• Metadata standards, harmonization, and documentation
• Comparative standard demographics and measurement
• Survey inclusion and hard-to-survey populations
• Data linkage and integration with administrative, digital, and other external data sources
• Data curation, dissemination, reproducibility, and open science
• Comparative analyses
• Computational methods for comparability, harmonization, and quality assessment

If your specific topic is not listed, you may still submit an abstract for a session on another topic, as long as it is still related to comparative survey design and implementation. To submit your abstract (up to 300 words), please use this link: 2027 CSDI Session Submission Form

For your convenience, here is a list of important dates:

• November 8, 2026 – Session abstracts due
• November 15, 2026 – Call for individual contributions opens
• December 13, 2026 – Individual abstracts due (note: session organizers are responsible for ensuring their session participants submit individual abstracts) 
• January 11, 2027 – Abstract notification sent, and online registration opens
• March 8, 2027 – Online registration closes
• March 23-25, 2027 – CSDI Workshop

Advances in Comparative Survey Methods: Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts (3MC)

Since the publication of the last 3MC monograph (2010), there have been substantial methodological, operational and technical advances in comparative survey research. There are also whole new areas of methodological development including collecting biomarkers, the human subject regulatory environment, innovations in data collection methodology and sampling techniques, use of paradata across the survey lifecycle, metadata standards for dissemination, as well as new analytical techniques. This new monograph follows the survey lifecycle and include chapters on study design and considerations, sampling, questionnaire design (assuming multi-language surveys), translation, mixed mode, the regulatory environment, data collection, quality assurance and control, analysis techniques and data documentation and dissemination. The table of contents can be accessed here.

Johnson, T. P., Pennell, B.-E., Stoop, I., & Dorer, B. (Eds.). (2018). Advances in comparative survey methods: Multinational, multiregional and multicultural contexts (3MC). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc.