Visiting Professor of the Department of Quantitative Methods
Interest Areas
Methodological aspects of survey research
Structural equation modelling
Biography
Willem E. Saris holds a Degree in Sociology from the University of Utrecht (1968). He has been Assistant Professor at the Free University in Amsterdam, where he worked for 15 years. In 1979, he did his PhD at the University of Amsterdam, where he also worked as Full Professor in Methodology of the Social Sciences since 1983. Currently, he is ICREA Visiting Professor at ESADE-Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona.
He has been working on methodological problems of testing structural equation models and quality of measurement in the social sciences. He has participated in substantive research with respect to political decision-making and satisfaction research. At present, he is member of the Central Coordination Team of the European Social Survey which takes place in 23 different countries in Europe. He is responsible, especially, for the quality of the survey questions.
Willem has published several articles and books on the subjects above mentioned. In the 2003 he has also got an ICREA position (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats) for the ESADE's research project "Measurement in the Social Sciences: Towards a Research Center for Quality Assessment of Questionnaire Research'.
