9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology Book of abstracts 11-16 September 2016, Leicester, United Kingdom hosted by Leicester Sociology TABLE OF CONTENTS: BOOK OF ABSTRACTS Contents A ........................................................................................................................................................ 26 Abramczuk, K. .................................................................................................................................................26 Survey and Behavioural Measures of Social Trust ..........................................................................................26 Alexandrakis, S. ...............................................................................................................................................28 A software suite of tools to assist with complex survey authoring, testing and enactment ..............................28 Amati, V., Schoenenberger, F. and Snijders, T. ...............................................................................................30 The Generalized Method of Moments for Estimating the Parameters of Stochastic Actor- oriented Models. ..........................................................................................................................................................30 Amaturo, E. and Punziano, G. .........................................................................................................................31 Blurry boundaries: Internet, Big-New Data and Mixed Methods Approach ...................................................31 Andersen, H. and Mayerl, J. ............................................................................................................................34 Analyzing socially desirable response behavior using paradata .....................................................................34 Angel, S., Heuberger, R., and Lamei, N. ...........................................................................................................36 How (and why) does the poverty headcount change if income data from registers are used? Evidence from the Austrian SILC .............................................................................................................................................36 Anguera, M.T. and Sánchez-Algarra, P. ...........................................................................................................39 Valorizing direct and indirect observational methodology: A challenge of Mixed Methods Data Analysis and Interpretation .................................................................................................................................................39 B ........................................................................................................................................................ 41 Bakker, J. .........................................................................................................................................................41 Breakoffs in general population web surveys and its effect on data quality: a comparison between smartphone, tablet and desktop users. ...........................................................................................................41 Barlas, F., Thomas, R., Fahimi, M. and Buttermore N......................................................................................42 Can Survey Data be Too Clean?: Data Cleaning and Bias Reduction ..............................................................42 Barnat, M. and Bosse, E. .................................................................................................................................43 The challenge of creating meta-inferences: Combining data representing institutional and individual perspectives on first-year support in higher education ....................................................................................43 Baroni, W.S. .....................................................................................................................................................45 A Genealogy of the Autobiography in Contemporary Society and Social Sciences. Autobiographical Discourse, Communism and Feminism .............................................................................................................................45 Barth, A. and Schmitz, A. .................................................................................................................................48 Towards a relational understanding of data quality .......................................................................................48 Beatty, P. and Lineback, J. F. ...........................................................................................................................49 Developing a Program on Emerging Methods for Improving Survey Measurement at the ...........................49 Becker, J., and Witte, N. ..................................................................................................................................50 Analysing places with reconstructive biographical methods..........................................................................50 Bednarowska, Z. ..............................................................................................................................................52 Why sociologists should follow political scientists and introduce spatial econometrics to their research? ......52 Belli, S. .............................................................................................................................................................55 Manage Social Conflict for a Slow Internet Connection in Online Meetings ..................................................55 Bengali, M. ......................................................................................................................................................56 Seeking God's Assistance to Govern: A Comparative analysis of Islamization Policies in Pakistan and Egypt ....56 Bergmann, M., Hanemann, F. and Scherpenzeel, A. .......................................................................................57 A responsive monitoring design using paradata to improve data collection in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) ........................................................................................................................57 Bergner, B. and Spellerberg, A. .......................................................................................................................59 Monitoring Real-Time Stress Experiences in Space – Data Collection, Operability and Methodical Challenges of User-Generated Emotion Data research? ................................................................................59 Bertolini, S. and Musumeci, R. ........................................................................................................................61 Changing preferences on work in the transition to parenthood? Evidence from qualitative longitudinal research on Italian couples ............................................................................................................................61 Beullens, K. ......................................................................................................................................................63 Interviewer effects among the elderly ...........................................................................................................63 Bhattacharyya, A. ............................................................................................................................................64 A methodological quest set forth for Indian software Industry .....................................................................64 Blasius, J., Thiessen, V. and Nenadic, O. ..........................................................................................................65 The dirty data index – assessing the quality of survey data in international comparison ..............................65 Brinkgreve, C. and van Daalen, R.....................................................................................................................66 A Sociological reading of Diary Fragments during wartime. ...........................................................................66 Bolli, T., Egg, M. E. and Rageth, L. ...................................................................................................................67 Does Vocational Education and Training (VET) Improve the Youth Labour Market Performance? ..................67 Borgs, C., and Schnell, R. .................................................................................................................................69 Linking against all odds: Using Administrative data with modern Privacy Preserving Record Linkage Techniques .....................................................................................................................................................69 Brandes, U. and Schoch, D. .............................................................................................................................71 When the centrality of actors is most obvious, centrality indices explain nothing at all................................71 Budde, E., Knill, C. and Preidel, C ....................................................................................................................71 A Matter