Harmonising Demographic and Socio-Economic Variables for Cross-National Comparative Survey Research

• Main Authors: Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Jürgen H.P (Author), Warner, Uwe (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.

This 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 o...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 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.