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ZUMA News Special (ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial)
The "ZUMA Nachrichten Spezial" serves to document the state of
research of larger projects or research areas of ZUMA, or to introduce the
results from conferences and symposia. Seven volumes have thus far been
published. Volumes 1-5 and 7 are available in English.
Volumes 1-3 and 5-9 can be read at our website or printed as .pdf
files using the Adobe Acrobat
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ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial Band 13
Mobilfunktelefonie - Eine Herausforderung für die Umfrageforschung
Hrsg. von Siegfried Gabler und Sabine Häder
Mannheim: GESIS-ZUMA 2007, 135 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-924220-34-1, 13 Euro
Etwa 45 Prozent aller Interviews in der Marktforschung werden in
Deutschland gegenwärtig telefonisch durchgeführt (vgl. ADM 2007). Als
Auswahlrahmen hat sich seit Ende der 1990er Jahre in Deutschland ein bei ZUMA entwickelter Frame (Gabler-Häder-Design) durchgesetzt, der sowohl
in das Telefonbuch eingetragene wie auch nicht eingetragene Anschlüsse
enthält, die über ein Ortsnetz erreichbar sind (Gabler/Häder 2002). In
den letzten Jahren hat sich allerdings eine Tendenz angedeutet, die die
alleinige Nutzung dieses Auswahlrahmens als unzureichend zur Abdeckung
der Gesamtheit der Privathaushalte erscheinen lässt: Ein wachsender
Anteil der Haushalte ist lediglich über Mobiltelefon erreichbar. Diese
Haushalte haben bei telefonischen Umfragen keine positive Auswahlchance,
sofern sie nicht über eine virtuelle Festnetznummer verfügen (z.B. O2).
Damit kann es zu systematischen Verzerrungen in den Stichproben kommen,
da sich Festnetzhaushalte und Mobilfunkhaushalte hinsichtlich für die
Sozialforschung relevanter Merkmale unterscheiden. Deshalb sind
Überlegungen über die Integration von Mobilfunkanschlüssen in
Telefonstichproben notwendig. Diesem Thema war eine Tagung bei ZUMA im
November 2006 gewidmet, deren Beiträge im vorliegenden Band gesammelt
sind. Die Beiträge sind auch online verfügbar unter http://www.gesis.org/
publikationen/zeitschriften/zuma_nachrichten_spezial/.
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, Vol 12
Conducting Cross-National and Cross-Cultural Surveys.
Papers from the 2005 Meeting of the International Workshop on Comparative
Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI)
Janet A. Harkness (ed.)
Mannheim: ZUMA 2006, 123 Seiten, ISBN 3-924220-29-8, 13 Euro
The papers in this volume stem from the third annual meeting of the
International
Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). Initiated
in 2002,
the Workshop developed out of cross-cultural symposia held at ZUMA
throughout the
nineteen nineties. One of CSDI’s primary goals is to promote research into
methodological issues of particular and sometimes unique salience for
cross-cultural and
cross-national survey research. For more information visit the CSDI
website (www.csdiworkshop.org).The seven papers are good illustrations of the broad spectrum of research
fields in which
CSDI researchers are engaged. The volume begins and ends with two
framework papers,
the first discussing what makes cross-national research special, the last
on where we begin
to draw boundaries between entities to be compared in “comparative”
research. The five
remaining papers discuss (in order of the volume): the rich information
available from the
multinational European Social Survey on data collection; socio-demographic
measurement
and comparability in the cross-national context, again with reference to
the European
Social Survey; cognitive pre-testing of translated questionnaires;
communicative
issues across cultures in telephone interviews; and preliminary work on
guidelines on
using interpreters underway at the U.S. Census Bureau. The last-mentioned
papers reflect
research concerns in U.S. cross-cultural context.
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, Vol 11
Methodological Aspects in Cross-National Research
Jürgen H.P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik & Janet A. Harkness (Eds.)
Mannheim: ZUMA 2005, 305 Seiten, ISBN 3-924220-29-8, 13 Euro
The idea for this volume was born during the Sixth International
Conference on Social Science Methodology in Amsterdam in August 2004,
organised by the International Sociological Association Research Committee
33 on Logic and Methodology. Most of the contributions in this volume are
proceeding papers from the Amsterdam conference. The contributions in this
volume are organised in four parts. The first part deals with designing
and implementing cross-cultural surveys. The second part consists of three
papers that deal with different issues of comparability or “equivalence”.
The third part of the volume brings together papers on with harmonising
socio-demographic information in different types of surveys. The last
section of the volume contains papers that discuss individual
socio-demographic variables in cross-national perspective.
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial Vol 10
Beyond the Horizon of Measurement
Festschrift in Honor of Ingwer Borg
Michael Braun & Peter Ph. Mohler (Eds.)
Mannheim: ZUMA 2006, 208 Seiten, ISBN 3-924220-28-X, 13 Euro
Modesty and academic excellence paired with trustfulness and
truthfulness, these are the descriptions we would choose, if asked to
describe Ingwer Borg in a nutshell. We are honoured to work with him and
it is our pleasure and privilege to introduce you, the reader, to this
volume.
A glance at his oevre reveals a multi-talented, innovative, and
cross-disciplinary scientist, who, by all means, could fill his walls with
eminent names, topics, positions, and publications. This is in contrast to
the frugality of his office, a scientific workbench, not a celebrity’s
showroom. In addition to his academic pursues he likes to venture into
real life, too.
This volume is organized in two parts. The first part deals with
measurement issues including the application of multidimensional scaling
to substantive issues but where the method is center-stage. The second
part in substantive in focus and deals with questions of the organization
of firms and employee attitudes.
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, Vol 9
QUEST 2003
Questionnaire Evaluation Standards
Edited by Peter Prüfer/Margrit Rexroth/Floyd Jackson Fowler, Jr.
Mannheim: ZUMA 2004, 216 Pp., ISBN 3-924220-27-1
This volume, the ninth in the ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial series on
methodological issues in empirical social science research takes up issues
of question and questionnaire evaluation. The papers in this volume
discuss practical as well as theoretical aspects of questionnaire
evaluation. All contributions are based on presentations made at the
fourth QUEST (Questionnaire Evaluation Standards) conference which took
place from October 21 - 23, 2003 at ZUMA in Mannheim. There were 26
attendees from 9 countries representing 14 organizations: Bureau of Labor
Statistics, USA, Center for Survey Research, University of Massachusetts,
USA, Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach, Germany, National Center for
Health Statistics, USA, National Center for Social Rerearch, U.K., Office
of National Statistics, U.K., Statistics Canada, Statistics Finland,
Statistics Netherlands, Statistics New Zealand, Statistics Norway,
Statistics Sweden, U.S. Census Bureau, ZUMA, Germany.
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, Vol 8
Von Generation zu Generation
Edited by Jan van Deth
Mannheim: ZUMA 2002; 68 Pp.
On June 14, 2002, a scientific conference was held in the honor and
appreciation of Prof. Dr. Max Kaase, Prof. Dr. Walter Müller and Prof. Dr. Hansgert Peisert for their trendsetting work of many years in the members' board at ZUMA e.V. This ZUMA Special is a summary of the speeches that were held at the ceremony.
The authors are Jan van Deth, Hubert Feger, Jürgen
Rost, Erwin K. Scheuch, Andreas Diekmann, Hans-Dieter Klingemann.
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, Vol 7
Social and Economic Analyses of Consumer Panel Data
Edited by Georgios Papastefanou, Peter Schmidt, Axel Börsch-Supan,
Hartmut Lüdtke, and Ulrich Oltersdorf (Mannheim: ZUMA, 2001), 212 Pp.
Available on CD-ROM. 15 Euro.
A ZUMA working group in the Income and Consumption Department addressed
the analytic and data issues that are raised when one uses complex
consumer panel data. The specific example was the ConsumerScan household
panel conducted by the Society for Market Research (GfK, Nürnberg); the
results of the analysis were presented at a symposium held in October
1999. The majority of the working reports presented at this symposium are
reproduced in this volume. In addition to providing a detailed insight
into the survey programme and how it was carried out in the GfK panel, the
volume also contains reports on related topics: the process of price
maintenance and its flexibility; the relationship of lifestyle to
consumption of everyday goods; consumer behaviour and attitudes about
health; the impact of environmental values on acquiring housekeeping
supplies; the formation of habits and risk orientation in making consumer
choices; and the socio-economic embeddedness of the choice to purchase
particular products such as alcohol. These investigations open numerous
avenues to pursue both basic and applied questions about consumer
behaviour with the use of consumer panel data.
The authors are Hans-Georg
Prester, John Thögersen, Hartmut Lüdtke, Jörg Schneider, Dieter Ohr,
Matthias Fengler, Joachim Winter, Norbert F. Schneider, Doris Rosenkranz,
Kerstin Hartmann, Georgios Papastefanou, Roger Berger, Uwe Fachinger,
Yasemin Boztug, Lutz Hildebrand.
The volume contains a CD-ROM with documentation and codebooks for the
processed ZUMA consumer panel data from 1995.
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, Vol 6
Analysing the Social Structure with the Aid of the Microcensus
Sozialstrukturanalysen mit dem Mikrozensus
Edited by Paul Lüttinger (Mannheim: ZUMA 1999), 400 Pp., ISBN
3-924220-17-4. DM 25.
The Microdata Department organised a conference in October 1998 on the
topic "Doing Research with the Aid of the Microcensus: Analysis of
the Social Structure and the Labour Market", and most participants
were users of the microcensus. The goal of this first user conference was
to create an information exchange forum for data users as well as
statistical offices. More than twenty papers were presented, and they went
well beyond the standard works published by the statistical office on the
microcensus. Most of these papers are reproduced in volume 6. The authors
are Walter Müller, Karl Brenke, Esther Hansch and Michael-Burkhard
Piorkowski, Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Jürgen Schupp, Joachim Frick, Lutz Kaiser
and Gert Wagner, Elke Wolf, Dietmar Dathe, Bernd Eggen, Erich Stutzer,
Carsten Baumann, Susanne von Below, Thomas Bulmahn, Martin Groß, Reiner
H. Dinkel, Marc Luy and Uwe Lebok, and Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn.
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, Vol 5
A review of software for text analysis
Melina Alexa & Cornelia Zuell
(Mannheim: ZUMA 1999), 176 Pp., DM 25 Mark, ISBN 3-924220-16-6
The book reviews a selection of software for computer-assisted text
analysis. The primary aim is to provide a detailed (and up-to-date)
account of the spectrum of available text analysis software and catalogue
the kinds of support the selected software offers to the user. A related,
more general, goal is to record the tendencies both in functionality and
technology and identify the areas where more development is needed. For
this reason the presented selection of software comprises not only fully
developed commercial and research programs, but also prototypes and beta
versions. An additional aspect with regard to the kinds of software
reviewed is that both qualitative and quantitative-oriented types of
research are included. Depending on research purposes and project design
the text analyst can profit from available tools independently of his or
her orientation. Today it is often the case that in computational support, the
borderline between quantitative and qualitative methodologies can become
obscured; instead, one can detect a number of commonalities which can be
placed within a broader text analysis context. The following fifteen
programs are reviewed: AQUAD, ATLAS.ti, CoAN, Code-A-Text, DICTION,
DIMAP-MCCA, HyperRESEARCH, KEDS, NUD*IST, QED, TATOE, TEXTPACK, TextSmart,
WinMAXpro, and WordStat and the criteria and methodology used for
selecting them are delineated. The last part of the book contains an
extensive discussion about text analysis programs and the issues
raised from the review.
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, Vol 4
Nonresponse in Survey Research
Edited by A. Koch and R. Porst
(Mannheim: ZUMA 1998), 354 Pp., ISBN 3-924220-15-8
This volume, the fourth in the ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial series on
methodological issues in empirical social science research, takes up
issues of non-response. Non-response, that is, the failure to obtain
measurements from all targeted members of a survey sample, is a problem
which confronts many survey organizations in different parts of the world.
The papers in this volume discuss non-response from different perspectives:
they describe efforts undertaken for individual surveys and procedures
employed in different countries to deal with non-response, analyses of the
role of interviewers, the use of advance letters, incentives, etc. to
reduce non-response rates, analyses of the correlates and consequences of
non-response, and descriptions of post-survey statistical adjustments to
compensate for non-response. All the contributions are based on
presentations made at the ‘8th International Workshop on Household
Survey Nonresponse’. The workshop took place from September 24 - 26,
1997 in Mannheim, Germany, the home base of the workshop host institute,
ZUMA. The Mannheim workshop drew 51 delegates from nine European
countries, as well as Canada, Israel and the United States. Twenty-nine
papers were presented and discussed, of which twenty-five are included
here.
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, Vol 3
Cross-Cultural Survey Equivalence
Edited by J. Harkness
(Mannheim: ZUMA 1998), 187 Pp., ISBN 3-924220-13-1
This volume is devoted to issues of cross-cultural methodology. The focus is on issues of
equivalence, the key requirement in cross-national and cross-cultural
comparative research. As the contributions indicate, equivalence is,
however, better thought of in terms of equivalencies - in social science
surveys and in other standardised instruments of measurement. Contributors
come from different countries and continents and from widely differing
research backgrounds, ranging from linguistics to survey research and its
methodologies, to cultural anthropology and cross-cultural psychology.
They are, in order of appearance in the volume: Timothy P. Johnson:
Approaches to Equivalence in Cross-Cultural and Cross-National Survey
Research. Fons J.R. van de Vijver: Towards a Theory of Bias and
Equivalence. Willem E. Saris: The Effects of Measurement Error in
Cross-Cultural Research. Janet A. Harkness and Alicia Schoua-Glusberg:
Questionnaires in Translation. Michael Braun and Jacqueline Scott:
Multidimensional Scaling and Equivalence: Is having a job the same as
working? Ingwer Borg: A Facet-Theoretical Approach to Item Equivalency.
Peter Ph. Mohler, Tom W. Smith and Janet A. Harkness: Respondents'
Ratings of Expressions from Response Scales: A Two-Country, Two-Language
Investigation on Equivalence and Translation.
ZUMA News Special, Vol 2
Eurobarometer - Measurement Instruments for Opinions in Europe
Edited by W. E. Saris and M. Kaase
(Mannheim: ZUMA 1997), ISBN 3-924220-12-3
The use of telephone surveys rather than face-to-face interviews has been
increasing in European empirical social research. The Eurobarometer
representative surveys, conducted biannually in the EU member states for
the European Commission in Brussels, provided an opportunity in the Spring
of 1994 (EB 41.0), to directly compare the two methods. At nearly the same
time as that face-to-face (Eurobarometer) survey was
conducted, a nearly identical survey questionnaire was also administered
as a telephone survey in the (then) twelve EU member states. This
permitted a systematic investigation of the differing sample designs and
survey methods to be conducted. In three of the twelve EU member states,
in addition, the the comparative base was enhanced by a telephone panel
component. The contributions in the current volume investigate survey
methodology questions this comparison raised. The research is of
importance for internationally comparative empirical social research, as
well as for market surveys and public opinion research in Europe.
ZUMA News Special, Vol 1
Text Analysis and Computers
Edited by C. Züll, J. Harkness and J. H.P. Hoffmeyer- Zlotnik.
(Mannheim, ZUMA, 1996), Pp. 132, ISBN 3- 924220- 11- 5
This ZUMA Nachrichten Spezial documents a cornerstone in an initiative to
bring together scholars from different disciplines engaged in the
computer-assisted analysis of texts. It presents reprints of the talks
given by four keynote speakers and the abstracts of all the papers
presented at the Text Analysis and Computers Conference held in Mannheim
from September 18-21, 1995. The conference papers were drawn from four
broad areas - content analysis, qualitative approaches in the social
sciences, information processing and corpus linguistics.
© GESIS Rolf Porst
2007/07/19
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