Resources for International Comparative Analysis: The European Social Survey
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Resources for International Comparative Analysis: The European Social Survey ESRC Research Methods Festival, St Catherine's College, Oxford, 02 July 2008 Caroline Roberts*, Gillian Eva*, Atle Jåstad ~ *Centre for Comparative Social Surveys City University, London ~ NSD, Norway
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Resources for International Comparative Analysis: The European Social Survey. Caroline Roberts*, Gillian Eva*, Atle Jåstad ~ *Centre for Comparative Social Surveys City University, London ~ NSD, Norway. ESRC Research Methods Festival, St Catherine's College, Oxford, 02 July 2008. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Resources for International Comparative Analysis:
The European Social Survey
ESRC Research Methods Festival, St Catherine's College, Oxford, 02 July 2008
Caroline Roberts*,Gillian Eva*,Atle Jåstad~
*Centre for Comparative Social SurveysCity University, London
~NSD, Norway
About the ESS
Cross-national biennial time-series
Academically-driven Multiple funding sources 18,300 registered data users
Round Fieldwork year
No. of countries
1 2002 22
2 2004 26
3 2006 25
4 2008 25 (so far)
Three main aims:
1. To produce rigorous trend data about changing social values across Europe
2. To improve the reliability of quantitative cross-national measurement in Europe
3. To advance the cause of social indicators and attitudinal measures
Participating countries
Austria France Lithuania Slovenia
Belgium Germany Luxembourg Spain
Bulgaria Greece Netherlands Sweden
Cyprus Hungary Norway Switzerland
Croatia Iceland Poland Turkey
Czech Republic
Ireland Portugal UK
Denmark Israel Romania Ukraine
Estonia Italy Russia
Finland Latvia Slovakia
The QuestionnaireCore question topics:
Trust in institutionsPolitical engagement Socio-political valuesMulti-level governanceMoral & social valuesSocial exclusionNational, ethnic, religious identityWell-being, health, security
Rotating Modules Round 1
ImmigrationCitizenship, engagement and democracy
Round 2Family, work and well-beingEconomic moralityHealth and care-seeking
Round 3Timing of the life courseSubjective well-being
Round 4Experiences and expressions of ageismWelfare attitudes in Europe
Methodological Advances Organisational structure Translation Sampling Fieldwork procedures and timing Response targets and enhancements Progress monitoring Contextual and event data Methodological research Transparency Access for all
ESS ResourcesFor background information & documentation: ESS home website:
www.europeansocialsurvey.org
For ESS data: ESS Data Archive website:
http://ess.nsd.uib.no
For training in data analysis: ESS EduNet
http://essedunet.nsd.uib.no
ESS Data Archive
Free & immediate access; quick registration Data & documentation organised by round
Survey documentation: including information about sampling, weighting and population statistics
Fieldwork documents: questionnaires; showcards, etc. Fieldwork summary: response rates, fieldwork dates, sample
size, and national deviations Data download: integrated & country files Contextual data & indices: including macro & event data
Cumulative data file now available for rounds 1-3 Online-browsing & analysis using ‘Nesstar Webview’ ESS Bibliography ESS ‘EduNet’
Other resources: NESSTAR
NESSTAR Online browsing and analysis
For use with the full ESS datasets or the specially prepared ESS EduNet data
Options:1. Description: of study, datafile, variables, etc.2. Table: create frequency tables and crosstabs3. Analysis: perform regression analysis
http://nesstar.essedunet.nsd.uib.no/webview/ http://ess.nsd.uib.no/webview/
NESSTAR: example table
Other resources: ESS Bibliography
ESS Bibliography Provides information about publications based on
the European Social Survey
Can search by author, keyword, year, country, publication type…
Authors submit information about their own publication
ESS Bibliography: search page
Other resources: ESS EduNet Internet-based analysis training programme aimed at
facilitating and enriching access to empirical data in the social sciences
The resource is developed for use in higher education
A hands on introduction to social science data analysis
Combining theory, data and methodology
Connect text (written by distinguished researchers) with data (high quality ESS data)
http://essedunet.nsd.uib.no/
Social and Political Trust (using ESS round 1 data): Ken Newton 2 theories of the origin of social trust, outlines the relationship between political and social trust
Human Values (using ESS round 1 data): Shalom Schwartz Schwartz’s theory on human values, shows how values can be used as both dependent and independent variables
Regression (using ESS round 2 data): Odd Gåsdal ‘Hands on’ introduction to analysing cross-sectional survey data using linear regression methods
Family, Gender and Work (using ESS round 2 data): Noah Lewin-Epstein and Haya Stier Different ways in which survey data are used in comparative research, uses these to examine the family-work connection
Topics
http://essedunet.nsd.uib.no/
Topics: chapter navigation
Each topic is divided into several chapters
Each chapter is again divided into several short pages
Each chapter contains exercises of varying degrees of difficulty
Chapters take around 1 hour to complete
Statistical Data Extracts from the ESS rounds 1 and 2 and a
data set with country level information Available for online analysis in Nesstar
WebView (with correlation) Or to download in different formats
Methodological glossary Short description of some key concepts.
Each concept is followed by a link to Wikipedia and an online statistical textbook
Data
Other resources About
• Short description of the ESS project and ESS EduNet
User guide
• Help pages on technical requirements, NSDstat, weighting, etc.
• An introduction on how to analyse data online - a useful starting point for those with no experience in statistical analysis
Advantages of ESS EduNet
Closeness to data
Research practice
Easy to use
