Practical strategies for minimizing sampling and non-sampling errors in telephone surveys: a case study using the “Sample Survey on Births” • Cinzia Castagnaro, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) ; Antonella Guarneri, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) ; Sabrina Prati, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) ; Francesca Rinesi, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT)

Non-response bias in studies of survey data with an application to residential mobility • Paul Clarke, University of Bristol ; Fiona Steele, University of Bristol ; Elizabeth Washbrook, University of Bristol

Does the mode of data collection matter in demographic research? Insights from a GGP mode experiment study • Andrej Kveder, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Joop Hox, Utrecht University ; Katja Lozar Manfreda, University of Ljubljana ; Gregor Petrič, University of Ljubljana ; Jernej Berzelak, University of Ljubljana ; Rok Platinovsek, University of Ljubljana

Do low survey response rates bias results? Evidence from Japan • Ronald R. Rindfuss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and East-West Center ; Minja K. Choe, East-West Center ; Noriko Tsuya, Keio University ; Larry Bumpass, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interviewer effects and reliability of retrospective event histories within the German Generations and Gender Survey • Lenore Sauer, Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany ; Kerstin Ruckdeschel, Bundesinstitut für Bevoelkerungsforschung ; Robert Naderi, Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany