NEPS project members took this chance to present the NEPS and their work within the NEPS to the scientific community. They gave six different talks on the following topics:

·     -    “The National Educational Panel Study in Germany: Purpose, Design and Challenges” by Jutta von Maurice, Volker Stocké and Hans-Peter Blossfeld (session „Challenges in Educational Surveys I”)

·     -    “Two-stage indirect sampling of Kindergarten children in the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)” by Solange Koch (session „Challenges in Educational Surveys I”)

·     -    “Simulation based determination of first stage’s sample size using multistage sampling in educational surveys” by Hans Walter Steinhauer (session “Challenges in Educational Surveys II”)

·     -    “Multi-stage testing in longitudinal designs” by Steffi Pohl and Claus Carstensen (session “Challenges in Educational Surveys II”)

·     -    “Challenges in Data Collection and Data Protection: The National Educational Panel Study” by Ina Ristau, Sonja Meixner, Nicole Lidzba, André Müller-Kuller, Jutta von Maurice and Hans-Peter Blossfeld (session “Survey innovations in data collection for longitudinal surveys of the general Population”)

·     -    “Bayesian Analysis of Binary Probit Models: The Case of Measurement Error and Sequential Regression Modeling for Missing Explaining Factors” by Solange Koch, Benno Schönberger and Christian Aßmann (session “Multiple imputation of complex data designs II”)