Speakers


CALLEGARO, Mario


Curriculum

Mario Callegaro majored in Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy, with a dissertation on the Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology. He worked as a consultant and a research specialist at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento. He was assistant director of the CATI center of at Trento and conducted many national CATI and also CAPI studies. The most notable study: Regional and Ethnic Prejudice in Italy, in collaboration with the University of Berkeley-California. Mario graduated from the Master's program in Survey Research and Methodology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln last December and now is a PhD student in the same program.

Measuring the Emotional Economy in Europe

Advantages and Disadvantages of the European Mobile sampling Frame

Mario Callegaro experiments with mobile phone surveying. He presented the shocking increase of the mobile-only households in some European countries that reaches . He suggests the implementation of designs where mobile phones are used as supplementary instrument for reaching the population that is out of the regular phone sampling frame. Mr. Callegaro illustrated the use of the mobile phones in social research with some specific exemplars.

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Publications

Callegaro, Mario (2002). Data Collection and Analysis Procedures. In Catanzaro, R., Piselli, F., Ramella, F. Trigilia, C. (Eds.). New Municipalities. The Changing in Local Governments. pp. 617-620. Bologna: Il Mulino.

Buzzi, C., Callegaro, M., Schizzerotto, A., Vezzoni, C. (2000). Study or Work? Formative and Occupational Choices of High School Trentino Students from Academic Year 1998/99. University of Trento.

Callegaro, Mario (1998). Cognitive Processes in Answering Questions: An Application to the Field of Political Attitudes, "Polis Ricerche e studi su societa e politica in Italia", 2, pp. 165-181.

Callegaro, Mario (1996) The Cognitive Approach to the Survey Situation, WAPOR newsletter n° 4, pp. 8-9. (English)


Conference papers

Another Difference between the U.S. and Europe: Surveying Mobile Phone Subscribers. (With Trent Buskirk) American Association for Public Opinion Research, Nashville, TN, May 2003

Electronic Voting Machines ­ A Comparison Applying the Principles of Computer-human Interaction and Computer-assisted Questionnaires Design. (With Emilia Peycheva) American Association for Public Opinion Research, Nashville, TN, May 2003

Web vs. IVR: Mode Effects in Structured Interviews Utilizing Rating Scales. (With Yongwei Yang and Dennison Bhola). American Association for Public Opinion Research, Nashville, TN, May 2003

Guest speaker at the AAPOR roundtable: Cellular Phones and Telephone Sampling. AAPOR 58th Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, May 2003.

Surveying U.S. Mobile Phone Subscriber. When, Where or If Ever. (With Trent Buskirk). Pacific Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Montery, CA, December 2002.

Cognitive Interviewing at National Center for Health Statistics: Current Practice and New Advancements with the Questionnaire Design Research Laboratory staff at the National Center for Health Statistics. Data User Conference, Washington DC, July 2002

Guest speaker at the joint AAPOR/WAPOR Roundtable: Mobile Phones in Telephone Surveys. AAPOR 57th Annual Conference, St Pete Beach, FL, May 2002.

Review on the Last Comparative Studies about Questionnaire Administration Methods, presented at the conference: Data Collection Techniques in Electoral Surveys organized by the Carlo Cattaneo Institute, Bologna, October 1997. (In Italian)


Technical papers

Callegaro, Mario (1999). From Paper to the Computer: How to Code Questions for SPSS.
Callegaro, Mario (1999). SPSS Logic: Software Structure and Procedures.
Callegaro, Mario (1999). How to Transform Variables and Select Cases Using SPSS.
Callegaro, Mario (1999). Introduction to Qdata, a data entry software.