Ineke Anežka Lucia Stoop (born 1953) is a retired Dutch survey statistician who was Head of Methodology at the (SCB) and chaired the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC).

Education and career

Stoop was born on 14 March 1953 in

The Hague The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...

. She earned a master's degree in psychology at

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince of Orange as a Protestantism, Protestant institution, it holds the d ...

in 1980, and completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; , formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public university, public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2023, it had an enrollment of ...

. She was a researcher at Leiden University from 1973 to 1983 before joining the Netherlands Institute for Social Research in 1983, and became Head of Methodology at the Institute in 1990. She became chair of the European Statistical Advisory Committee in 2014, and retired in 2019.

Books

Stoop is the author of books including: *''The Hunt for the Last Respondent: Nonresponse in Sample Surveys'' (her 2005 doctoral dissertation) *''Improving Survey Response: Lessons learned from the European Social Survey'' (with Jaak Billiet, Achim Koch and Rory Fitzgerald, Wiley, 2010) She is also the editor or co-editor of

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s including *''Access Panels and Online Research, Panacea Or Pitfall?'' (Uitgeverij Aksant, 2008) *''Advances on Comparative Survey Methodology'' (Wiley, 2018)

Recognition

Stoop is an Elected Member of the

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. She was part of the

European Social Survey The European Social Survey (ESS) is a social scientific endeavour to map the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of the various populations in Europe. The average duration of an ESS interview is 60 minutes in British English and data is deposi ...

project, which won the

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in 2005. She was a keynote speaker at the 2019 biennial conference of the

European Survey Research Association ''Survey Research Methods'' (''SRM'') is a peer-reviewed academic journal on survey methodology published by the European Survey Research Association. The journal publishes articles in English discussing methodological issues of survey research. ...

, in

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, where she was given the association's Outstanding Service Award.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stoop, Ineke 1953 births Living people Scientists from The Hague Dutch statisticians Dutch women statisticians Leiden University alumni Utrecht University alumni Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute