Oliver Lipps

FORS

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

About

I am senior researcher and head of the methodological research programme at FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences - Lausanne and member of the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) team. In addition, I am also lecturer in survey methodology and survey research at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and at the Swiss Summer School in Lugano. My research interests focus on unit and item nonresponse in cross-sectional and especially longitudinal designs, effects due to interviewers, incentives, mode, and language proficiency/acculturation issues, and income imputation methods. I use data from, e.g., the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the European Social Survey (ESS), the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), and the Cross National Equivalent File (CNEF). I am also interested in substantive issues such as health and subjective well-being.

Experience

  • Head of Methodological Research at FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences
    Jan 2008 - Present · 18 yrs 6 mos

    Survey Methods, Analysis Methods with a focus on panel data analysis.

  • Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent) at Universität Bern
    Jul 2015 - Present · 11 yrs

    Lectures on methods of the analysis of longitudinal data, and survey methodology.

  • Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent) at University of Basel
    Sep 2009 - Jun 2015 · 5 yrs 10 mos

    Lectures and seminars on methods of the analysis of longitudinal data, and survey methodology.

  • Head of Methods and Analyses at Swiss Household Panel
    Mar 2005 - Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Survey Methods

  • Field Project Manager at Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA)
    Mar 2002 - Feb 2005 · 3 yrs