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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.15 Development of a new information system/databases

COBISS.SI-ID: 30099293

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Attitudes towards life sentence in Slovenia 2009

General population attitudes on life sentence, death penalty, abortion etc. are compared with attitudes of students in the field of criminology and security studies, law, education, social work and social sciences. The authors hypothesize that some segments of the population - older and less educated – will express less liberal and more punitive attitudes towards life sentence and death penalty. There is also an expectation that students as younger and involved in the higher education express more liberal attitudes than population at large.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 1752810

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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

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. Lecturer: Dr Ineke Stoop, The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP

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

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. Lecturer: Prof Jaak Billiet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven