Michael Bergmann | Munich Center for the Economics of Aging

Current Position

Senior Researcher, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA)

Research Fields

Survey Methodology (Panel conditioning and attrition, sampling, weighting)

Previous Position

2008-2014 Academic Assistant, Chair of Comparative Polictical Behavior, University of Mannheim (Prof. Dr. Hans Rattinger)

Education

2008-2014 PhD, Chair of Comparative Polictical Behavior, University of Mannheim (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hans Rattinger)

2008 Diploma in Political science, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg

Presentations

2016 Panel Survey Methods Workshop, Berlin; International Conference on Social Science Methodology (RC33), Leicester.

2015 European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Reykjavik.

2013 European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Ljubljana.

2012 Workshop "Change in Political Attitudes: Panels and Experiments", Barcelona; Gründungstagung der Sektion Methoden der Politikwissenschaft der DVPW, Hamburg.

2011 Zweites Statussymposium "Individuelle und gesellschaftliche Perspektiven des Alterns" (VolkswagenStiftung), Jena; Nationale Wahlstudien in Österreich (AUTNES), Schweiz (selects) und Deutschland (GLES), Berlin; SOCLIFE Workshop on the Analysis of Time in Context and Time as Context, Köln; European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Lausanne.

2010 Workshop „Herausforderung Wahlforschung: Methodische und statistische Problemstellungen", Mannheim; ISA World Congress of Sociology, Göteborg; Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Wahlen und Politische Einstellungen, Berlin; General Online Research (GOR) 10, Pforzheim; Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago.

2009 Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Wahlen und Politische Einstellungen, Frankfurt.

Teaching Experience

2009-2014 Statistcal data analysis with SPSS and Stata, undergraduate and advance seminars in political sociology and comparative politics

Awards and Scholarships

2016 DGfW Research Award for analyses with data from the German Longitudinal Election Study

People

Dr. Michael Bergmann

Further Information

Publications have only been fully recorded in the database since 2003. Older publications that may have been published are included in the download PDF on this page. Publications Publications (sorted by Publication Type) Publications (sorted by Year)

Journal Article

Monograph

Edited Book

Book Chapter

MEA Discussion Paper

Discussion Paper/Working Paper

Others

Dissertation

Projects

Reading fast, reading slow: Interviewer behavior and the influence on survey outcomes

Sampling

Measurement of well-being in a cross-cultural perspective

Panel sample composition development

Responsive fieldwork design in the German sub-study of SHARE

Exploring the role of income item nonresponse on panel attrition in SHARE

Identifying fake interviews in a cross-national panel study (SHARE)

Bodyweight and cognitive performance in the older population

SERISS Work Package Representing the population

Possibilities to deal with unknown vital status in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Keeping the oldest old – A framework for survey adaptations to improve panel retention in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Informal and formal care-giving and -receiving across Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Methodology Volume

Fieldwork cost analysis across countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Benefit of a celebrity patronage in SHARE Germany

Keystrokes Projekt

Fieldwork Monitoring in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Identifying Vital Status using Register data

Presentations

Keeping the oldest old – A framework for survey adaptations to improve panel retention in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Keeping the oldest old - a framework for survey adaptations to improve panel retention in SHARE

Improving data quality in SHARE: Overview about current projects

Benefit of a celebrity patronage? Evidence from SHARE Germany

SHARE Wave 8 Main TTT – Fieldwork Monitoring

Using field monitoring strategies to reduce attrition bias in a panel study: Application during data collection in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Using the relationship between income item nonresponse and panel attrition for adaptive fieldwork measures in SHARE

Fieldwork cost analysis across countries in SHARE

Representing the population

Sampling

Using field monitoring strategies to reduce attrition bias in a panel study: Application during data collection in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Changes in body mass and cognitive performance – disentangling a seeming paradox

Erhebungskosten und Ausschreibungsverfahren im internationalen Vergleich

Sampling

Using field monitoring strategies to reduce attrition bias in a panel study: Application during data collection in the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Identifying fake interviews in a panel study – The Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Changes in Body Mass and Cognitive Performance – Disentangling a Seeming Paradox

Sampling

Sampling

Reading Fast, Reading Slow: Interviewers’ Reading Behavior and the Influence on Survey Outcomes

Field Monitoring in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Interviewerfälschungen in Panelstudien – Identifikation am Beispiel des Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Sampling of Wave 8

Identifying fake interviews in a cross-national panel study (SHARE)

Samples in main survey

Main samples in wave 7. Cleaning, response and refreshment

Do interviewers’ reading behaviors influence survey outcomes?

A responsive monitoring design using paradata to improve data collection in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Cultural response styles in the evaluation of people´s social contacts: Source of bias or explicable outcome?

Can we use the relationship between income item nonresponse and panel attrition in an adaptive fieldwork design?

Reading fast, reading slow: Interviewer behavior and the influence on survey outcomes

Sampling in wave 7 - Pretest

Sampling in wave 7

Sampling in SHARE

A responsive fieldwork design to increase retention rates in SHARE

Assessing interviewers’ reading out durations for monitoring data quality

Fieldwork Monitoring. Design, first results, and implementation

Events of the Institute

SHARE-Covid Research: Preliminary Findings

Keeping the Oldest Old – A Framework for Survey Adaptations to Improve Panel Retention in SHARE

Benefits of a Celebrity Patronage in SHARE Germany

Using Field Monitoring Strategies to Reduce Attrition Study: Application During Data Collection in SHARE

Training

Creating Performance Monitoring Dashboards for Face-to-Face Surveys (including Roundtable “Field Monitoring”)

360-Degree-Leadership: Leading others without formal authority

Meetings – Innovationstreiber oder Gesundheitsrisiko

Agile Project Management

2nd SERISS Training: Sampling, Weighting and Estimation in Survey Methodology

Publications have only been fully recorded in the database since 2003. Older publications that may have been published are included in the download PDF on this page.

Publications
Publications (sorted by Publication Type) Publications (sorted by Year)