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Sinkendes Armutsrisiko in Deutschland

Survey item nonresponse and its treatment

Aus Zahlen Wissen Schaffen. Initiieren. Kommunizieren. Beraten. Der RatSWD.

Georeferenzierung von Daten: Situation und Zukunft der Geodatenlandschaft in Deutschland

Der vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geförderte Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD) berät seit 2004 die Bundesregierung und die Regierungen der Länder in Fragen der Erweiterung und Verbesserung der Forschungsinfrastruktur für die empirischen Sozial-, Verhaltens- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Ende 2009 hat der Wissenschaftsrat dem RatSWD empfohlen, sich der als verbesserungsfähig ...

Doing poorly: The real income of american children in a comparative perspective

Gender, Household and Individual Income in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the USA and the UK

Impact of Life Events on the Dynamics of Well-Being: Natural Experiments embedded in multiple time-scale Designs

Session Abstracts: Lifespan theories of aging highlight the importance normative and non-normative life events have on how individuals function, develop, and age. In later adulthood, events such as the onset of severe illness or loss of a spouse may change both how individuals negotiate their daily lives and how they age. In this paper, we use a collection of natural experiments embedded in longitudinal ...

Who worries and who is happy? Explaining individual differences in worries and satisfaction by personality

Subjective Indicators

Subjective indicators have been proven to possess predictive power for a large array of social and economic outcomes. However, most of these measures face serious psychometric shortcomings, namely that the items used are not psychometrically investigated. Furthermore, various different item phrasing and response formats are used in different surveys for the assessment of one and the same construct. ...

Can't We Make It Any Shorter?: The Limits of Personality Assessment and Ways to Overcome Them

Psychological constructs are becoming increasingly important in social surveys. Scales for the assessment of these constructs are usually developed primarily for individual assessment and decision-making. Hence, in order to guarantee high levels of reliability, measurement precision, and validity, these scales are in most cases much too long to be applied in surveys. Such settings call for extremely ...