J5-9069 — Final report
1.
Towards new forms of visual surveys: operating with pattern formations and pattern recognitions

Paper proposes a new way to create a set of visualization tools for social surveys. This tool-set is composed of three modules which correspond to different structures of data sets.

F.16 Improvements to an existing information system/databases

COBISS.SI-ID: 30099293
2.
Does post-socialism make people happy?

Comparative surveys of psychological well-being show that post-socialist states are lagging not only behind the western states, but also behind some states with low level of political and economic stability. The paper is be guided by the thesis that psychological well-being can be an important variable in explaining the post-socialist transformations, but does not subscribe to the idea that the relationship between macro-structural change and variations in happiness can be reduced to the (direct) link between change in material and psychological well-being.

F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity

COBISS.SI-ID: 29302877
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ESS Training course: Working with Comparative Surveys Lecturer: Dr Ineke Stoop, The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP

The aim of this course was to provide an introduction to the main issues raised by using cross-national surveys, present different models for harmonisation and focus on the elusive concept of optimal comparability. Methodological choices that can influences survey outcomes, and methodological variation that can influence comparability will be discussed in greater detail. The focus was be on the European Social Survey, partly because of the extensive documentation of methodology and implementation.

B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting

COBISS.SI-ID: 858590
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Controlling for measurement error and construct equivalence concepts in cross-nation reserach (Prof Jaak Billiet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Aim of the course: One of the prime objectives of cross-national survey research is to compare concepts across countries or cultures. It is therefore important that these concepts are measured adequately in all of the countries involved in the survey. Moreover; in order to be able to compare country-scores on items or scales in a valid way or to compare regression parameters across countries, concepts have to be measured in a sufficiently equivalent way.

B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting

COBISS.SI-ID: 858590
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Human development report 2008

Human development report is a comprehensive analytical portrait of the development of Slovenian society, its social climate, current conditions and developmental trends, which may affect social cohesion. The selection of amalytical indicators is based on data and figures provided by: Slovenian statistical office, European statistical office, Institute of public health, Andragogical center, Institute of economic research And Public opoinion and mass communication research center st the Faculty od Social Sciences which houses European social survey.

F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity

COBISS.SI-ID: 244344320