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What do respondents and non-respondents think of incentives and how do they react to them? The ESS Experience in Poland
Sztabiński, Paweł B.; Sztabiński, Franciszek; Przybysz, Dariusz (2012)
One method to increase the response rate in surveys is to use respondent incentives. The effectiveness of incentives depends on a number of factors which, however, may have a varied impact on respondents’ decisions about ...
Measuring Attitudes toward Immigration in Europe: The Cross-Cultural Validity of the ESS Immigration Scales
Meuleman, Bart; Billiet, Jaak (2012)
Equivalence of measurement scales is a crucial prerequisite for making valid cross-cultural comparisons, as cultural differences in the interpretation of indicators could result in misleading conclusions. In this paper, ...
Evaluating Measurement Invariance for Social and Political Trust in Western Europe over Four Measurement Time Points (2002-2008)
Davidov, Eldad; Coromina, Lluis (2013)
It is a well-documented fact that social trust, i.e., the extent to which people trust others, and political trust, i.e., trust in political institutions, are key factors in social capital theory. However, to compare these ...
How (Not) to Estimate the Design Effect of a Complex Sampling Scheme: A Case Study of the Polish Section of the European Social Survey, Round 5
Jabkowski, Piotr (2013)
Design effect (DEFF) is a measure used to assess the effectiveness of a particular sampling scheme. Even though its definition is remarkably simple (cf. Kish 1965: 258), its practical implementation turns out to be ...
How Does Length of Fieldwork Period Influence Non-Response? Findings from ESS 2 in Poland
Sztabiński, Franciszek; Sztabiński, Paweł B.; Przybysz, Dariusz (2009)
In this paper we show how one method of increasing the response rate, i.e. an extension of the fieldwork period, influences the structure of non-response and the differences between respondents and non-respondents. We used ...
Are Non-Respondents Similar to Respondents? Findings from the ESS-2004 in Poland
Sztabiński, Franciszek; Sztabiński, Paweł B.; Przybysz, Dariusz (2007)
In Poland, like in other countries, participation in surveys is declining over time. The growing non-response rates increase a risk of systematic bias of the results depending on the differences between non-respondents and ...
A Meta-analysis of Within-Household Selection Impact on Survey Outcome Rates, Demographic Representation and Sample Quality in the European Social Survey
Jabkowski, Piotr (2017)
Face-to-face surveys of the general population often start with a probability sample of the households or addresses. However, even if a probability sample of households or addresses has been drawn, random selection of the ...
Processing, Archiving and Dissemination of ESS Data: The Work of the Norwegian Social Science Data Services
Kolsrud, Kirstine; Orten, Hilde; Øvrebo, Ole-Petter; Skjåk, Knut Kalgraff; Midtsæter, Hege (2010)
Ever since the advent of the social science data archive movement, the work to reduce financial, technical, legal and administrative barriers between users and data resources has been a recurring theme, indeed a driving ...
Item Non-response in the European Social Survey
Koch, Achim; Blohm, Michael (2009)
Item nonresponse is widely considered an important indicator of data quality. It decreases the available sample size for analyses and bears the risk of biased results if the missingness is not at random. The present study ...
How to Model Parental Education Effects on Men and Women’s Attainment? Cross-National Assessments of Different Approaches
Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina; Domański, Henryk (2010)
Research in social stratification shares the assumption that social origin operates through assets embedded in the family structure, yet scholars’ opinions of how resources get transmitted intergenerationally vary ...