Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2000-4
INTERNET
* The questionnaires, codebooks and data of the study "Social
Stratification in Eastern Europe After 1989: General Population Survey (SSEE)"
are now available in the web free of charge. It is provided by the Czech Data
Archive (SDA):
http://archiv.soc.cas.cz/SSEE/SSEE.intro.html
The SSEE is funded with grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation (SES
9111722 and SBR 9310395), the U.S. National Council for Soviet and Eastern
European Research (806-29), and the Dutch National Science Foundation [NWO]. In
addition, various grants supported the research in individual countries. The
principal Investigators are Ivan Szelenyi, UCLA Donald J. Treiman, UCLA. As part
of the project "Social Stratification in Eastern Europe after 1989,"
sample surveys were conducted in 1993 and 1994 in six countries: Bulgaria, the
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Slovakia using a questionnaire
common to all countries. The integrated data set is prepared by the Eastern
European Group, Dept. of Sociology, UCLA.
* Selected results of the Transition Barometer Eastern Europe (TBO) 1997-2000
are available at: http://www.uni-koeln.de/extern/fores/
The TBO is sponsored by the Otto Wolff foundation and the Johann and Margarete
Ley foundation. and conducted by the Office for Empirical Research on Social
Economics, Cologne. The TBO each year measures important economic indicators
reflecting the process of reforms and comparing the situation in the reforming
countries. It analyzes the general economic set-up as well as public opinion and
attitudes concerning the reforms. The most important results are presented in
the internet in short form. This abridged version of selected results is based
on publications of the Transition Barometer of Eastern Europe, published by
Campus.
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