1. The Call for the 8th ESS Training Course has NOW CLOSED
(News/News)

  The 8th ESSTrain will be on the subject of 'Paradata in Social Surveys'. It will take place on April 26-27 in Mannheim. The Call for applications has now closed.  ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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, ...

5. 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 ...

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

... of events and the advent of more robust interpretations of ‘normal' and ‘exceptional' findings of public opinion surveys.  The existing ESS network will have a key role both in shaping ...

7. 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 ...

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

... in Government' research group, members of  the International Social Survey Programme, the Eurobarometer, the European Values Surveys and the World Values survey teams, members of the European network ...

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

... comparative surveys.  Round 4 of the ESS will provide a further opportunity for testing ways in which mixed mode data collection might be implemented. Task 4: Evaluation of implications of ...

10. Mixing Modes of Data Collection - Deliverables
(Methodological Research/Mixed Modes of Data Collection)

...  Report 4 Effects of personalisation and humanisation of contacts and web surveys 5  ...

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

... for survey translations.  The principal output will be a full specification for a computer-assisted tool for multilingual comparative surveys able to facilitate the process and reduce the costs ...

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 - Background
(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. ESS Codebook Example Tables now online
(News/News)

  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 contains tables ...

18. 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 ...

19. 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.   ...

20. 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 ...