Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina / Wolf, Christof / Slomczynski, Kazimierz M. / Jenkins, J. Craig (Herausgeber): Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, 1. Auflage November 2023, Wiley & Sons Ltd, ISBN: 978-1-119-71217-6
An expansive and incisive overview of the practical uses of harmonization and its implications for data quality and costs
In Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, a team of distinguished social science researchers delivers a comprehensive collection of ex-ante and ex-post harmonization methodologies in the context of specific longitudinal and cross-national survey projects. The book examines how ex-ante and ex-post harmonization work individually and in relation to one another, offering practical guidance on harmonization decisions in the preparation of new data infrastructure for comparative research.
Contributions from experts in sociology, political science, demography, economics, health, and medicine are included, all of which give voice to discipline-specific and interdisciplinary views on methodological challenges inherent in harmonization. The authors offer perspectives from Europe and the United States, as well as Africa, the latter of which provides insights rarely featured in survey research methodology handbooks.