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100 1 _aHoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Jürgen H.P.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHarmonising Demographic and Socio-Economic Variables for Cross-National Comparative Survey Research
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Jürgen H.P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aXVI, 274 p. 17 illus., 5 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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505 0 _aChapter 1. Harmonisation of Demographic and Socio-Economic Variables -- Chapter 2. The Harmonisation Process: Harmonosation is not Translation -- Chapter 3. Existing Measurement Instruments for Data Collection -- Chapter 4. Background Variables for Cross-National Comparative Research: Data Sources -- Chapter 5. Core Social Variables and Their Implentation in Measurement Instruments -- Chapter 6. The Proposed Set of Instruments at a Glance -- Chapter 7. Comparability of Currently Available Survey Data.
520 _aThis book explains harmonisation techniques that can be used in survey research to align national systems of categories and definitions in such a way that comparison is possible across countries and cultures. It provides an introduction to instruments for collecting internationally comparable data of interest to survey researchers. It shows how seven key demographic and socio-economic variables can be harmonised and employed in European comparative surveys. The seven key variables discussed in detail are: education, occupation, income, activity status, private household, ethnicity, and family. These demographic and socio-economic variables are background variables that no survey can do without. They frequently have the greatest explanatory capacity to analyse social structures, and are a mirror image of the way societies are organised nationally. This becomes readily apparent when one attempts, for example, to compare national education systems. Moreover, a comparison of the national definitions of concepts such as "private household" reveals several different historically and culturally shaped underlying concepts. Indeed, some European countries do not even have a word for  "private household". Hence such national definitions and categories cannot simply be translated from one culture to another. They must be harmonised.    
650 0 _aSocial sciences.
650 0 _aStatistics.
650 0 _aSocial sciences
_xMethodology.
650 1 4 _aSocial Sciences.
650 2 4 _aMethodology of the Social Sciences.
650 2 4 _aStatistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.
650 2 4 _aStatistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.
700 1 _aWarner, Uwe.
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710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7238-0
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