Gabriele Durrant

Director

Email:  G.Durrant@soton.ac.uk

Tel: 0044 (0)23 80 598199

Room: B58, R2065

PA: Jacqui Thorp

Profile at the University of Southampton

Centre Activities

• Director of NCRM
• Director of NCRM training

Research interests

• use and analysis of paradata (survey process data)
• interviewer effects in sample surveys
• missing data and nonresponse in sample surveys
• statistical modelling in the social sciences, in particular multilevel modelling
• measurement error in sample surveys
• use of administrative data and linked data sources
• use of environmental data

Publications

• Kibuchi, E., Sturgis, P., Durrant, G., & Maslovskaya, O. (2019). Do interviewers moderate the effect of monetary incentives on response rates in household interview surveys? Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. DOI: 10.1093/jssam/smy026
  
  
• Maslovskaya, O., Durrant, G., Smith, P. W. F., Hanson, T., & Villar, A. (2019). What are the characteristics of respondents using different devices in mixed-device online surveys? Evidence from six UK surveys. International Statistical Review. DOI: 10.1111/insr.12311
  
  
• Schouten, B., Mushkudiani, N., Shlomo, N., Durrant, G., Lundquist, P., & Wagner, J. (2018). A Bayesian analysis of design parameters in survey data collection. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 6(4), 431-464. DOI: 10.1093/jssam/smy012
  
  
• Durrant, G. B., Vassallo, R., & Smith, P. W. F. (2018). Assessment of multiple membership multilevel models: an application to interviewer effects on nonresponse. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1-17. DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2018.1465809
  
  
• Moore, J. C., Durrant, G. D., & Smith, P. (2018). Data set representativeness during data collection in three UK social surveys: generalizability and the effects of auxiliary covariate choice. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 181(1), 229-248. DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12256
  
  
• Durrant, G., Maslovskaya, O., & Smith, P. W. F. (2018). Investigating call record data using sequence analysis. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2018.1490981
  
  
• Moore, J., Durrant, G., & Smith, P. W. F. (2017). Correlates of record linkage and estimating risks of non-linkage biases in business datasets. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society). DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12342
  
  
• Durrant, G., Maslovskaya, O., & Smith, P. (2017). Using prior wave information and paradata: can they help to predict response outcomes and call sequence length in a longitudinal study? Journal of Official Statistics, 33(3), 801-833. DOI: 10.1515/jos-2017-0037
  
  
• Durrant, G., & Schnepf, S. (2017). Which schools and pupils respond to educational achievement surveys? A focus on the English PISA sample. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society. DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12337
  
  
• Vassallo, R., Durrant, G., & Smith, P. W. F. (2016). Separating interviewer and area effects using a cross-classified multilevel logistic model: implications for survey designs. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 1-32. DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12206
  
  
• Durrant, G., Maslovskaya, O., & Smith, P. W. F. (2015). Modelling final outcome and length of call sequence to improve efficiency in interviewer call scheduling. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 3(3), 397-424. DOI: 10.1093/jssam/smv008
  
  
• Lyons-Amos, M., Padmadas, S. S., & Durrant, G. B. (2014). Contraceptive confidence and timing of first birth in Moldova: an event history analysis of retrospective data. BMJ Open, 4(8), 1-8. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-004834
  
  
• Durrant, G. B., & D'Arrigo, J. (2014). Doorstep interactions and interviewer effects on the process leading to cooperation or refusal. Sociological Methods and Research, 1-29. DOI: 10.1177/0049124114521148
  
  
• Vassallo, R., Durrant, G. B., Smith, P. W. F., & Goldstein, H. (2014). Interviewer effects on non-response propensity in longitudinal surveys: a multilevel modeling approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 1-17. DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12049
  
  
• Durrant, G. B., D'Arrigo, J., & Steele, F. (2013). Analysing interviewer call record data by using a multilevel discrete-time event history modelling approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 176(1), 251-269.
  
  
• Durrant, G. B., & Kreuter, F. (2013). Editorial: The use of paradata in social survey research. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 176(1), 1-3. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01082.x
  
  
• Sinibaldi, J., Durrant, G. B., & Kreuter, F. (2013). Evaluating the measurement error of interviewer observed paradata. Public Opinion Quarterly, 77(S1), 173-193.
  
  
• Steele, F., & Durrant, G. B. (2011). Alternative approaches to multilevel modelling of survey non-contact and refusal. International Statistical Review, 79(1), 70-91. DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2011.00133.x
  
  
• Lyons-Amos, M. J., Durrant, G. B., & Padmadas, S. S. (2011). Is traditional contraceptive use in moldova associated with poverty and isolation? Journal of Biosocial Science, 43(3), 305-327. DOI: 10.1017/S0021932010000775
  
  
• Durrant, G. B., D'Arrigo, J., & Steele, F. (2011). Using field process data to predict best times of contact conditioning on household and interviewer influences. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 174(4), 1029-1049. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00715.x
  
  
• Durrant, G. B., Groves, R. M., Staetsky, L., & Steele, F. (2010). Effects of interviewer attitudes and behaviors on refusal in household surveys. Public Opinion Quarterly, 74(1), 1-36. DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfp098
  
  
• Durrant, G. B. (2009). Imputation methods for handling item-nonresponse in practice: methodological issues and recent debates. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 12(4), 293-304. DOI: 10.1080/13645570802394003
  
  
• Wiles, R., Durrant, G., De Broe, S., & Powell, J. (2009). Methodological approaches at PhD and skills sought for research posts in academia: a mismatch? International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 12(3), 257-269. DOI: 10.1080/13645570701708550
  
  
• Durrant, G. B., & Steele, F. (2009). Multilevel modelling of refusal and noncontact in household surveys: evidence from six uk government surveys. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 172(2), 361-381. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2008.00565.x
  
  
• Durrant, G. B. (2006). Missing data methods in official statistics in the UK: some recent developments. Journal of the German Statistical Society.
  
  
• Durrant, G. B., & Skinner, C. (2006). Using data augmentation to correct for nonignorable nonresponse when surrogate data are available: an application to the distribution of hourly pay. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 169(3), 605-623. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00398.x