1. Comparative Attitudinal Research in Europe
(Download:History & Background)

... projects’ in this context, we mean other large-scale, cross-national, quantitative surveys in Europe whose aim is to measure, interpret and understand changes over time in people’s opinions, attitudes, ...

2. NEW: ESS Descartes Prize book on nonresponse published
(News/News)

In 2005, the ESS was awarded the Descartes prize. Part of the prize money was used to develop and publish a book on nonresponse in cross-national surveys. "Improving Survey Response: Lessons learned from ...

3. Training Courses: No 9
(Dissemination/Training Courses)

... in Ljubljana in August 2010. THIS CALL HAS NOW CLOSED   Further Information Course A: “Working with comparative surveys” Course B: “Controlling for measurement error and construct equivalence ...

4. ESSTrain 9c
(Dissemination/Training Courses)

9th ESS Train: At the ECPR Summer School Course C: "Accuracy of survey estimates: sampling, weighting, variance estimation and design effects in cross-sectional surveys" 7-8 August 2010, Ljubljana, ...

5. ESSTrain 9b
(Dissemination/Training Courses)

... (ESF) for several years.  His main research interest in methodology deals with validity assessment, interviewer and response effects and the modelling of measurement error in social surveys. His substantial ...

6. ESSTrain 9a
(Dissemination/Training Courses)

9th ESS Train: At the ECPR Summer School Course A: “Working with comparative surveys” 7-8 August 2010, Ljubljana, Slovenia Instructor: Ineke Stoop A compelling rationale ...

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

... of ESS in Luxembourg; he was responsible for the Luxembourgian data collection and data integration into ECHP; he is in charge of carrying out various national surveys in Luxembourg. His main research ...

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

6th ESSTrain “Mixed Mode Surveys” 30 April - 1 May, 2009 Ljubljana   THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED When planning a survey, many decisions have to be made and one of the most important ...

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

... implemented in two major national surveys conducted in the UK (2004, 2006). The surveys used theory and research methods from social psychology to examine several key components of ageism: age stereotypes, ...

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

... modeling of measurement error in social surveys. His substantial research covers longitudinal and comparative research in the domains of ethnocentrism, political attitudes and religious orientations. He ...

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

... is also highly research intensive.  US scholars - eg Don Dillman, Robert Groves, Jon Krosnick and Norman Bradburn - have been grappling with the problem of mixed mode surveys for years and - in ...

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

... and attempting to improve the reliability and validity of questions in cross-cultural surveys such as the ESS.  The second is to improve the procedures and protocols used for translation across participating ...

13. Improving Representativeness and Response
(Methodological Research/Non-response)

... analysis of sampling frame data (2) analysis of reluctant respondents using contact forms data; (3) observational data using contact forms data; and (4) surveys of non-respondents (see Billiet & ...

14. QEM2
(Dissemination/Quality Enhancement)

... to other cross-national surveys.   Agenda List of Participants Information pack: In preparation of the QEM II, the invited experts were sent an information package with a set of potentially ...

15. Training Courses: No 3
(Dissemination/Training Courses)

ESSTRAIN TRAINING COURSES FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS SAMPLING IN CROSS-NATIONAL SURVEYS 10th-11th March, 2008 GESIS (Mannheim), Germany Instructor: Prof. Vijay Verma   ...

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

ESSTRAIN TRAINING COURSES FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS NONRESPONSE IN CROSS-NATIONAL SURVEYS 3rd-4th December, 2007 (Gesis-Mannheim), Germany Instructor: Dr. Ineke Stoop   The two-day course ...

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

... other languages. This is the model adopted in major surveys such as the ESS, SHARE, and the ISSP. The topics covered included question development for substantive and background variables, issues ...

18. Origins of the ESS
(Project Background/History)

... decision was their realization that most cross-national attitude surveys in Europe at that time were not of sufficient rigour to draw on as reliable sources of knowledge about value change in Europe.   ...

19. Codebook
(Dissemination/Codebook)

  In March 2007, The Centre for Comparative Social Surveys published the European Social Survey Codebook, containing data from the first two rounds of the survey.   The codebook ...

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

... into the project, in order to investigate major issues in surveys such as non-response, the reliability and validity of questions and the feasibility of mixing modes of data collection. The ESS research ...