Geert
Loosveldt obtained his PhD in social sciences in 1986 with a study entitled
'The
effect of interviewer training on the quality of survey data'.
He is currently Associate Professor and head of the Centre for Survey
Methodology at the department of Sociology of the K.U. Leuven. His research
focuses on research methodology in general and evaluation of survey data quality
in particular. In 2002 he was appointed by the National Research Fund as the
national co-ordinator of the European Social Survey in