Sociodemographic Questionnaire Modules for Comparative Social Surveys

✍ Scribed by Jürgen H.P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 128
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Above all, this book focuses on the application of sociodemographic survey questions. Based on theoretical foundations, it addresses the operationalization of variables and presents socio-demographic questionnaire modules for within- and across-country comparative survey research. The book pursues three main objectives: to provide a thorough and comprehensive overview of the survey instruments currently available for the measurement of sociodemographic variables in cross-national comparative research; to offer the reader a set of harmonized international demographic standards; and to show how these standards can be implemented by the various parties involved in international comparative surveys – from the central project coordinators, to the researchers on the national survey teams, to the fieldwork agencies and their interviewers, to respondents, and eventually, to the data processing experts preparing the datasets for comparative analysis. The book offers a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and students actively involved in producing and analyzing sociodemographic survey data. The typical readers will be social science researchers, qualified consultants and professionals interested in the field of (comparative) survey research. The book can also serve as a useful supplement to introductory textbooks on survey methodology and is suitable for Bachelor and Master students of the social sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-viii
Introduction, Problem, and Research Question (Jürgen H. P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner)....Pages 1-6
Front Matter ....Pages 7-7
Harmonization of Demographic and Socioeconomic Survey Questions: From National Concepts to Internationally Comparable Measurements (Jürgen H. P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner)....Pages 9-13
Demographic and Socioeconomic Questions in Surveys (Jürgen H. P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner)....Pages 15-51
Front Matter ....Pages 53-53
The Harmonized Questionnaire for Sociodemographic Measures (Jürgen H. P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner)....Pages 55-75
Front Matter ....Pages 77-77
Guidelines for Handling the Harmonized Questionnaire—Introduction (Jürgen H. P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner)....Pages 79-82
Central Project Coordinators (Jürgen H. P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner)....Pages 83-90
National Research Teams (Jürgen H. P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner)....Pages 91-98
National Field Agencies and Their Interviewers (Jürgen H. P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner)....Pages 99-108
Respondents (Jürgen H. P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner)....Pages 109-112
Data Processing Units (Jürgen H. P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner)....Pages 113-117
Back Matter ....Pages 119-126

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Demography; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Social Structure, Social Inequality