[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:what-we-do\u002Fnews-stories\u002Fnews\u002F2009\u002Fgetting-the-online-figures-right-the-academic-struggle-24-nov-2009":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"short_title":7,"intro_text":7,"meta_description":8,"seo_title":8,"path":9,"content_type":10,"locale":11,"go_live_at":7,"first_published_at":12,"page_created_at":13,"published_at":12,"edit_url":14,"breadcrumbs":15,"seo":28,"body_blocks":36,"call_to_action":42,"categories":49,"labels":50,"owner":7,"authors":51,"related_pages":52,"related_sites":53,"in_subsite":54,"contact_page_url":55,"banner_message":56},5560,"getting-the-online-figures-right-the-academic-struggle-24-nov-2009","Getting the online figures right: the academic struggle - 25 Nov. 2009",null,"","\u002Fwhat-we-do\u002Fnews-stories\u002Fnews\u002F2009\u002Fgetting-the-online-figures-right-the-academic-struggle-24-nov-2009","pages.newspage","en","1969-12-30T23:00:00+00:00","2026-03-23T08:36:56.370849+00:00","\u002Fcms\u002Fpages\u002F5560\u002Fedit\u002F",[16,19,22,25,27],{"title":17,"slug":18},"What We Do","what-we-do",{"title":20,"slug":21},"News and Stories","news-stories",{"title":23,"slug":24},"News","news",{"title":26,"slug":26},"2009",{"title":6,"slug":5},{"title":6,"description":8,"image":29,"canonical":30,"robots":31,"og_type":32,"twitter_card":33,"locale":11,"created_at":34,"last_modified_at":35},"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002FSocial_media_preview_image_-_2025.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.png","https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fwhat-we-do\u002Fnews-stories\u002Fnews\u002F2009\u002Fgetting-the-online-figures-right-the-academic-struggle-24-nov-2009\u002F","index, follow","website","summary_large_image","1969-12-31T00:00:00+01:00","2026-04-02T22:39:38.865544+02:00",[37],{"type":38,"data":39},"raw_html_block",{"content":40,"variant":41},"\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-img\">\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002F62481346@N00\u002F2705052763\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Harvard Law School Langdell Hall\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\u002F\u002Ffarm4.static.flickr.com\u002F3048\u002F2705052763_6468f5585b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"\u002F>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cbr\u002F>\u003Cspan class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\">Harvard Law School \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.flickr.com\u002Fphotos\u002F62481346@N00\u002F2705052763\">ZaNiaC\u003C\u002Fa> via Flickr\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">T\u003C\u002Fspan>he academic partners of the WageIndicator Foundation continue to address one of the key problems in looking at online surveys: how can we get them closer to the offline reality. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">In October we reported on a study\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan> by Stephanie Steinmetz and Kea Tijdens of the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink freebase\u002Fguid\u002F9202a8c04000641f80000000002a5820\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.uva.nl\u002F\" rel=\"homepage\" title=\"University of Amsterdam\">\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">University of Amsterdam\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fdocuments\u002F0911-steinmetz-tijdens-wageindicator-websurveys-cm-newsletter-5785f8296f13.pdf\">Download\u003C\u002Fa> The conclusion in October: while the current standard of online surveys is the best we can get, improvements are needed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cblockquote>Steinmetz suggested several ways to improve the scientific value of the online surveys, including always having an offline reference survey at hand, although that would reduce the current cost and time advantages of online studies. Another ways was that we would have to live with the idea no survey would be really representative for the general population, including the online ones.\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fdocuments\u002F0911-freeman-raess-ferreras-wageindicator-websurveys-cm-newsletter-ca15f5b95f62.pdf\">Download\u003C\u002Fa> at the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink freebase\u002Fguid\u002F9202a8c04000641f8000000000127b78\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.law.harvard.edu\u002F\" rel=\"homepage\" title=\"Harvard Law School\">\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">Harvard Law School\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>, written by \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink freebase\u002Fguid\u002F9202a8c04000641f800000000072e4e2\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FRichard_B._Freeman\" rel=\"wikipedia\" title=\"Richard B. Freeman\">\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">Richard B. Freeman\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>, Damian Raeses and Isabelle Ferreras, figures of our \u003Ca class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.paywizard.org\">US website Paywizard.\u003C\u002Fa> They call their study a \"Preliminary Skirmish\", equally suggesting that the academic debate is only starting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their conclusion: \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cblockquote>\"Basic illustration of the tests on US data show significant bias in the non-representative Paywizard data, while techniques such as weighting and median quantile \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink freebase\u002Fguid\u002F9202a8c04000641f800000000036a574\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FRegression_analysis\" rel=\"wikipedia\" title=\"Regression analysis\">regression analysis\u003C\u002Fa> (or any estimation that gives less weight to the extreme values) appears promising venues for reducing the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink freebase\u002Fguid\u002F9202a8c04000641f8000000000218bb6\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FSelection_bias\" rel=\"wikipedia\" title=\"Selection bias\">selection bias\u003C\u002Fa>. We hope that this and more elaborated tests yet to be defined will form the basis of a methods template that will be systematically applied by every national WageIndicator team on their data in order to generate a strong data set on wage and employment issues across the globe.\"\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\u003Cdiv> \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fdocuments\u002F0911-freeman-raess-ferreras-wageindicator-websurveys-cm-newsletter-ca15f5b95f62.pdf\">Download\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fdocuments\u002F0911-steinmetz-tijdens-wageindicator-websurveys-cm-newsletter-5785f8296f13.pdf\">Download\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>","light",{"text":43,"link":44},"Contact us",{"title":43,"url":45,"description":43,"rel":46,"type":47,"id":48},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact","follow","internal",24590,[],[],[],[],[],false,"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. 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