Research Interests
Blanka Szeitl, PhD, is a research assistant at the Centre for Social Science. She defended her dissertation in 2025 in the field of mathematics at the Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged. Her research focuses on the mathematical and statistical background of survey research, with particular emphasis on sampling methods, data correction procedures, and human factors that may distort the results of quantitative data collection. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, ELTE, and a founder and researcher of the ELTE Survey Methods Room Budapest research group. Since 2024, she has been a member of the European Social Survey (ESS) Sampling and Weighting Panel, responsible for developing the sampling strategy for European countries participating in the ESS data collection. She also participates in methodological experiments related to the ESS and analyzes their results at the Institute of Sociology.