Ineke Stoop

Ineke Anežka Lucia Stoop (born 1953)^[1] is a retired Dutch survey statistician who was Head of Methodology at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research [nl] (SCB) and chaired the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC).^[2]

Education and career

Stoop was born on 14 March 1953 in The Hague. She earned a master's degree in psychology at Leiden University in 1980, and completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at Utrecht University.^[1][3]

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.^[1][3]

She became chair of the European Statistical Advisory Committee in 2014,^[4] and retired in 2019.^[2]

Books

Stoop is the author of books including:

• The Hunt for the Last Respondent: Nonresponse in Sample Surveys (her 2005 doctoral dissertation)^[1][5]
• Improving Survey Response: Lessons learned from the European Social Survey^[6] (with Jaak Billiet, Achim Koch and Rory Fitzgerald, Wiley, 2010)

She is also the editor or co-editor of edited volumes including

• Access Panels and Online Research, Panacea Or Pitfall? (Uitgeverij Aksant, 2008)
• Advances on Comparative Survey Methodology (Wiley, 2018)^[7]

Recognition

Stoop is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.^[8] She was part of the European Social Survey project, which won the Descartes Prize in 2005.^[4][9] She was a keynote speaker at the 2019 biennial conference of the European Survey Research Association, in Zagreb,^[7] where she was given the association's Outstanding Service Award.^[2][10]