1. Training Courses: No 8
(Dissemination/Training Courses)

... While specific paradata vary by mode of data collection, all paradata share one feature; they are a by-product of the data collection process capturing information about that process.   The topic ...

2. ESS Round 4 Module Development Documents now available
(News/News)

... is used by members of the ESS Central Coordinating Team and the Question Design Teams throughout the question design process. All of the design templates (for each module) as well as the final template ...

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

...  Commissioner Potočnik, guest of honour, spoke about the importance of good quality data to support the policy making process noting that ‘The European Social Survey gives us good quality comparable, ...

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

... Potočnik, guest of honour, spoke about the importance of good quality data to support the policy making process noting that ‘The European Social Survey gives us good quality comparable, Europe-wide, ...

5. QEM3
(Dissemination/Quality Enhancement)

... process and pretesting procedures.   Agenda List of Participants Presentations Recommendations  ...

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

... populations, but also to the role of national welfare regimes in this process. Hence, the aim of the module is to provide insights into current issues of work, family and well-being and into the interactions ...

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

... document the development process for each module.   1. Experiences and Expressions of Ageism 50-item module Proposal Abstract: Europe has a steadily ageing population, but the age ...

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

... choice from the ESS. The 3 instructors consult the students in the process of preparing their presentations. In unit 5 on the second day we discuss more sophisticated concepts of validity and its implementation ...

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

... with specialist groups (see Task 2).   Task 2 Further meetings with specialist teams will be held (another 6 - 8 such meetings during this phase) to begin the process of reducing ...

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

... which these salient events are conveyed to the public.  Thus media reports are the best means of retrieving and categorising them.  Via a process of agenda-setting, they focus attention on ...

11. Improving the Questionnaire - Work Description
(Methodological Research/Improving the Questionnaire)

... and meta-information for the experiment.  The efficiency of this process also needs to be improved. To do so, a computer program needs to be developed which not only manages and handles the current ...

12. Improving the Questionnaire - Background
(Methodological Research/Improving the Questionnaire)

... to estimate the reliability, validity and ‘total quality' of that item.  This approach has been applied during the questionnaire design process of each Round of the ESS and is also being used to evaluate ...

13. Training Courses: No 2
(Dissemination/Training Courses)

... rates Recording the response process Culture, efforts and non-response Indicators of Difficulty Response in the ESS: An overview  Non-response Bias    Participants were required ...

14. Training Courses: No 1
(Dissemination/Training Courses)

... of Ljubljana, Slovenia Instructor: Prof Dr Janet Harkness The course discussed questionnaire design and implementation within a framework of survey process quality monitoring and thus included consideration ...

15. Data Protocols
(ESS Fieldwork/Data Documentation)

...  To assist the data producers, and to ensure data are as consistent and harmonised as possible, the archive will produce utilities for data processing such as SPSS and SAS programmes, as well as the Data ...

16. National Coordinator Meetings
(Dissemination/Quality Enhancement)

  Meetings with ESS National Coordinators are at the heart of the ESS quality enhancement activities. The quality enhancement process is dictated by the needs of the ESS players and can only be successful ...

17. Improving the Questionnaire II
(Methodological Research/Improving the Questionnaire)

... first operates during the questionnaire design process, when experiments are designed to evaluate measures tested in the pilot. The second involves analysis of the main stage survey results to measure ...

18. Methodology
(ESS Fieldwork/Survey Methodology)

... to sample selection translation of the questionnaire, and to all methods and processes. Above all, we must ensure that all procedures and outcomes are comprehensively documented in a standard way.  ...

19. ESS Edunet
(Dissemination/EduNet)

... designed to guide users through the research process, from a theoretical problem to the interpretation of statistical results. Four topics are now available, drawing upon data from the first two rounds ...

20. Translation Strategy
(ESS Fieldwork/Survey Methodology)

The ESS 'source questionnaire' is designed in English and then translated into other languages needed at a national level. The process is overseen in each case by the respective National Coordinators. ...