1. Scientific Advisory Board - Round 4
(Project Background/Organisational Structure)

Click on the country to view details. *New countries in Round 4 Anton Amann Institute of Sociology University of Vienna Vienna Piet Bracke University of Ghent Ghent Pierre ...

2. ESS ROUND 4 DATA UPDATED
(News/News)

ESS Round 4: Data for 3 Additional Countries Now Available We are pleased to announce that the second edition of data and documentation for ESS Round 4 was released on 17 December 2009. It ...

3. Commissioner Potočnik says ESS upgrade to a long term infrastructure an urgent priority
(News/News)

... Europe-wide, data from all 30 countries taking part. And equally importantly, information about how those answers change over time…. You have already come a long way. You have secured funding commitments ...

4. Commissioner Potočnik says ESS upgrade to a long term infrastructure an urgent priority
(Project Background/Organisational Structure)

... data from all 30 countries taking part. And equally importantly, information about how those answers change over time…. You have already come a long way. You have secured funding commitments from 19 countries, ...

5. Round 5 Specification for Participating Countries now available
(News/News)

Round 5 Project Specification for Participating Countries now available The Project Specification documents the requirements for each country participating in Round 5 of the ESS. The Specification is ...

6. Training Courses: No 7
(Dissemination/Training Courses)

... Practical and theoretical considerations for the design and implementation of fieldwork instruments aimed to compare European countries will be discussed. In international comparing survey research the ...

7. ESS Preparatory Phase
(Project Background/Funding)

... Countries and intergovernmental organisations who wish to participate in the development of the governance, financial and legal models informing the preparation of the ESS Upgrade Agreement.  Please ...

8. ESS data used to produce national well being accounts for Europe
(News/News)

Data from the ESS Round 3 rotating module ‘Personal and social well-being’ have been used by the UK think tank, the New Economics foundation (NEF), to derive national well-being data for 22 European countries. ...

9. Round 1 Rotating Modules
(ESS Fieldwork/Questionnaire)

... to other European countries, the proportion of migrants who are asylum seekers or refugees, the extent to which immigrants and other 'outgroups' are discriminated against, etc. Public perceptions ...

10. Round 2 Rotating Modules
(ESS Fieldwork/Questionnaire)

...  30-item module Health care is high on the policy agenda of most governments in Europe, mainly due to rising costs. Within Europe there are large differences in the provision of care. Some countries ...

11. Round 3 Rotating Modules
(ESS Fieldwork/Questionnaire)

... the success of European countries at promoting the personal and social well-being of their citizens.  Whilst much has been learnt from introducing subjective measures of global happiness or life satisfaction ...

12. Round 4 Rotating Modules
(ESS Fieldwork/Questionnaire)

... ratios differ markedly between different European countries. This poses a major challenge both for people’s personal and working lives and for public policy. This module is based on items designed and ...

13. Training Courses: No 5
(Dissemination/Training Courses)

... equation model. A special focus is given to the use of multiple group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) as a very useful tool to test the equivalence of measurement instruments over different countries ...

14. Training Courses: No 4
(Dissemination/Training Courses)

4th ESSTrain “Comparability of Survey Data Across Countries and Time” 10-11 November 2008 GESIS, Mannheim THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED  This course will give a theoretical and application oriented ...

15. Developing a methodological Tool for Event Reporting - Background
(Methodological Research/Event Reporting)

... countries more than others, thus accounting for differences in response to certain questions.  To counteract this risk, exceptional events in different countries need to be recorded in a systematic ...

16. Mixed Modes of Data Collection
(Methodological Research/Mixed Modes of Data Collection)

... owing to the mounting costs of carrying out face-to-face interviews and the divergent traditions and experiences of survey research across the different countries participating in the survey, there ...

17. Developing Attitudinal Indicators - Milestones
(Methodological Research/Developing Attitudinal Indicators)

... need to be assessed and possibly (re-analysed).  Other potential indicators will have technical or substantive flaws, and may need development work in the form of field tests in some ESS countries ...

18. Developing Attitudinal Indicators - Background
(Methodological Research/Developing Attitudinal Indicators)

... countries.  JRA3 will kick off with an extensive literature review, including appropriate data analyses, as the first step in pursuit of suitably robust measures that will over time capture the ...

19. The Development of a Methodological Tool for Event Reporting - Milestones
(Methodological Research/Event Reporting)

... for retrieving information on significant national and international events.  These sources also allow us to cover earlier periods, enabling the actual recording and coding in different countries ...

20. Mixing Modes of Data Collection - Milestones
(Methodological Research/Mixed Modes of Data Collection)

... on mode preferences and mode coverage in different countries.  It will also involve a consultation exercise with ESS participants (National Coordinators), coordinated by City.  The output ...