CSDI 2012 - The International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI 2012)

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 10th International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI 2012).
The Workshop will take place from March 22-24 at Neemrana, the site of an ancient palace, outside Delhi in Northern India. The nearest airport is Delhi international airport. The local host is Yashwant Deshmukh, founder-owner of YRD Media and its flagship division CVoter: http://www.teamcvoter.com/the_team.html.
Our local host is kindly funding the meeting rooms and workshop presentation equipment, lunches and refreshments during the meeting. Participants fund their own travel and accommodation.
The venue is a fifteenth century "fort-palace" which has been renovated as a hotel, spa and conference venue (for history, see /http://archive.neemranahotels.com/neemrana/ index.html/). The trip from airport to the fort-palace is about 100 kilometers; we will be sending details of how to get there and how to book the hotel. We have reserved all of the rooms available at the venue, just under fifty in total. While driving from other venues is possible, we strongly recommend staying in the fort-palace for your own convenience and enjoyment.
The meeting begins in the morning of Thursday 22 March and presentations end at lunchtime on Saturday, 24 March. Over lunchtime on Saturday we will hold a business meeting to which everyone is invited.
Each CSDI workshop has a (broadly conceptualised) thematic focus. The 2012 meeting will focus on challenges researchers face at local or global level when participating in cross-cultural and/or crossnational research. These might be challenges at the local level in trying to realize cross-national requirements for a larger project, or at a centralized level in deciding designs or standards for multisite, cross-national implementation, analysis, or dissemination. We also welcome papers on methodological challenges in "simply" aiming to replicate research already fielded elsewhere or at a different time. Papers can thus be on any aspect of survey and instrument design, testing, implementation, dissemination or analysis but should incorporate this local/global focus.
Depending on participants' interest, an anniversary publication of selected papers is possible.