Dr. Tobias Rettig

Dr. Tobias Rettig

Operative Leitung
Universität Mannheim
UB, Research Data Center, GIP
Schloss – Raum SN 270
68161 Mannheim
  • Beruflicher und akademischer Werdegang

    Beruflicher Werdegang

    Monat/Jahr Tätigkeit
    01/22 – heute Operative Leitung des GIP
    Universität Mannheim
    Team German Internet Panel
    01/18 – 09/22 Doktorand
    Universität Mannheim
    Sonderforschungs­bereich 884 „Political Economy of Reforms”
    Team German Internet Panel
    04/16 – 09/16 Tutor
    Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung
    Universität Bremen
    Fach­bereich 11 (Human- und Gesundheits­wissenschaften)
    10/14 – 03/15 Tutor
    Inferenzstatistik
    Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
    Fakultät für Sozial- und Verhaltens­wissenschaften
    08/14 – 09/14 Praktikum
    Kommunale Statistikstelle, Rostock
    04/14 – 07/14 Tutor
    Deskriptive Statistik
    Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
    Fakultät für Sozial- und Verhaltens­wissenschaften

    Akademischer Werdegang

    Monat/Jahr Tätigkeit
    01/18 – 09/22 Promotion
    Universität Mannheim
    Dissertation: „Respondent and Response Behavior in Online Panel Surveys“,
    bei Prof. Annelies G. Blom, PhD
    04/19 – 05/19 Gast­wissenschaft­ler
    Universität Utrecht, Niederlande
    Fakultät für Sozial- und Verhaltens­wissenschaften
    Abteilung für Methodik und Statistik
    10/15 – 12/17 M.A. Soziologie und Sozialforschung
    Universität Bremen
    These: „Response Style Bias in the European Social Survey. A Latent Class Factor Analysis Approach“
    10/12 – 09/15 B.A. Soziologie (Hauptfach) & Psychologie (Nebenfach)
    Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
    These: „Die Datenqualität in Online-Studien”
  • Publikationen

    Buchkapitel

    • Juhl, S., Lehrer, R., Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Krieger, U., Fikel, M., Cornesse, C., Naumann, E., Möhring, K., & Reifenscheid, M. (2022). Preferences for Centralized Decision-Making in Times of Crisis: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany. In J. Sauermann, M. Tepe, & M. Debus (Eds.), Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungs­theorie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35878-5_1
    • Rettig, T. & Blom, A. G. (2021). Memory Effects as a Source of Bias in Repeated Survey Measurement. In A. Cernat & J. W. Sakshaug (Eds.), Measurement Error in Longitudinal Data (pp. 3–18). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

    Journal Artikel

    • Rettig, T. & Blom, A. (2024). Investigating Respondent Attention to Experimental Text Lengths, Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smad044
    • Rettig, T. & Struminskaya, B. (2023). Memory Effects in Online Panel Surveys: Investigating Respondents’ Ability to Recall Responses from a Previous Panel Wave. Survey Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2023.v17i3.7991
    • Cornesse, C., Blom, A. G., Sohnius, M., Gonzalez Ocanto, M., Rettig, T., & Ungefucht, M. (2023). Experimental Evidence on Panel Conditioning Effects when Increasing the Surveying Frequency in a Probability-Based Online Panel. Survey Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2023.v17i3.7990
    • Gummer, T., Kunz, T., Rettig, T., & Höhne, J. K. (2023). How To Detect and Influence Looking Up Answers to Political Knowledge Questions in Web Surveys? Public Opinion Quarterly, nfad027. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfad027
    • Gummer, T., Höhne, J. K., Rettig, T., Roßmann, J., & Kummerow, M. (2023). Is there a growing use of mobile devices in web surveys? Evidence from 128 web surveys in Germany. Quality & Quantity. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01601-8
    • Cornesse, C., Gonzalez Ocanto, M., Fikel, M., Friedel, S., Krieger, U., Rettig, T., & Blom, A. G. (2022). Measurement instruments for fast and frequent data collection during the early phase of COVID-19 in Germany: reflections on the Mannheim Corona Study. Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42409-022-00030-5
    • Cornesse, C., Krieger, U., Sohnius, M.-L., Fikel, M., Friedel, S., Rettig, T., Wenz, A., Juhl, S., Lehrer, R., Möhring, K., Naumann, E., Reifenscheid, M., & Blom, A. G. (2022). From German Internet Panel to Mannheim Corona Study: Adaptable probability-based online panel infrastructures during the pandemic. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 185(3), 773–797. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12749
    • Revilla, M., Höhne, J. K., & Rettig, T. (2022). Differences in measurement quality depending on recall: results for a question about trust in the parliament. Quality & Quantity.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01441-6
    • Blom, A. G., Wenz, A., Cornesse, C., Rettig, T., Fikel, M., Friedel, S., Möhring, K., Naumann, E., Reifenscheid, M., & Krieger, U. (2021). Barriers to the Large-Scale Adoption of a COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in Germany: Survey Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(3), e23362. doi:10.2196/23362
    • Möhring, K., Naumann, E., Reifenscheid, M., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Krieger, U., Friedel, S., Fikel, M., Cornesse, C., & Blom, A. G. (2021). The COVID-19 Pandemic and Subjective Well-being: Longitudinal Evidence on Satisfaction with Work and Family. European Societies, 23(S1), S601–S617. doi:10.1080/14616696.2020.1833066
    • Naumann, E., Möhring, K., Reifenscheid, M., Wenz, A., Rettig, T., Lehrer, R., Krieger, U., Juhl, S., Friedel, S., Fikel, M., Cornesse, C., & Blom, A. G. (2020). COVID‐19 Policies in Germany and Their Social, Political, and Psychological Consequences. European Policy Analysis, 6(2), 191–202. doi:10.1002/epa2.1091
    • Blom, A. G., Cornesse, C., Friedel, S., Krieger, U., Fikel, M., Rettig, T., Wenz, A., Juhl, S., Lehrer, R., Möhring, K., Naumann, E., & Reifenscheid, M. (2020). High Frequency and High Quality Survey Data Collection: The Mannheim Corona Study. Survey Research Methods, 14(2), 171–178. doi:10.18148/srm/2020.v14i2.7735

    Reviews

    • Field Methods
    • Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences
    • Methods, Data, Analyses
    • Swiss Political Science Review
    • Journal of Official Statistics
  • Konferenzen und Workshops

    Präsentationen

    07/2023 “Memory Effects in Online Panel Surveys: Investigating Respondents’ Ability to Recall Responses from a Previous Panel Wave”
    Präsentation bei der European Survey Research Association (ESRA) 2023 Konferenz, Milano, Italien
    09/2021 “Relations­hips Between Variables in Probability-based and Nonprobability Online Panels”
    Präsentation bei der General Online Research (GOR) Konferenz 2021 (Online)
    07/2021 “Associations in Probability-based and Nonprobability Online Panels: Evidence on Bivariate and Multivariate Analyses”
    Präsentation bei der European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Konferenz 2021 (Online)
    07/2019 “Investigating Respondents’ Ability to Recall Previous Responses to Different Types of Questions in a Probability-Based Online Panel”
    Präsentation bei der European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Konferenz 2019, Zagreb, Kroatien
    07/2019 “How Much Text is Too Much? Assessing Respondent Attention to Instruction Texts Depending on Text Length”
    Präsentation bei der European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Konferenz 2019, Zagreb, Kroatien
    03/2019 “Recalling Survey Answers: A Comparison Across Question Types and Different Levels of Panel Experience”
    Präsentation bei der General Online Research (GOR) Konferenz 2019, Köln, Deutschland

    Poster

    02/2024 “Long Term Attrition and Sample Composition Over Time. 11 Years of the German Internet Panel”
    Poster bei der General Online Research (GOR) Konferenz 2024, Köln, Deutschland
    09/2021 “Memory Effects in Online Panel Surveys: Investigating Respondents’ Ability to Recall Responses from a Previous Panel Wave”
    Poster bei der General Online Research (GOR) Konferenz 2021 (Online)
    09/2020 “Associations in Probability-Based and Nonprobability Online Panels: Evidence on Bivariate and Multivariate Analyses”
    Poster bei der General Online Research (GOR) Konferenz 2020 (Online)
    03/2019 “How Much Text is Too Much? Assessing Respondent Attention to Instruction Texts Depending on Text Length”
    Poster bei der General Online Research (GOR) Konferenz 2019, Köln, Deutschland
    07/2018 “The Effect of Incentives in Survey Experiments on Panel Stability and Sample Composition”
    Poster bei der European Association of Methodology (EAM) Konferenz 2018, Jena, Deutschland

    Sonstiges

    05/2019 DataFest Germany 2019 Mitglied des Daten­ausschusses der Universität Mannheim