Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys (PDF)

This book addresses a
broad array of pressing challenges of longitudinal surveys and provides innovative
solutions to methodological problems based on the example of the NEPS. It
covers longitudinal issues such as sampling, weighting, recruiting and
fieldwork management, the design of longitudinal surveys and the implementation
of constructs, conducting competence tests over the life course, effective methods
to improve and to maintain the highest level of data quality, data management tools
for large-scale longitudinal surveys, the dissemination of research data to heterogeneous
scientific communities, as well as establishing a long-term public relations
and communications unit integrating a study's stakeholder community over time.

Content

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Sampling, Recruiting and Fieldwork Management

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Longitudinal
Measurement of Skills: Competence Testing

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Assessing Data
Quality

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Data Management,
Coding, Dissemination and User Support

Target Groups

·
Sociologists, Psychologists, Demographers,
Economists

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Experts in Longitudinal Research, Research
Methods, Survey Research and Statistics

·
Educational Researchers

The Editors

Hans-Peter Blossfeld is on leave from his Chair in
Sociology at Bamberg University since 2012 and holds a Chair in Sociology at
the European University Institute in Florence.

Jutta von Maurice is the executive director of research of the Leibniz
Institute for Educational Trajectories at the University of Bamberg.

Michael Bayer is operational manager of the operational unit 'Motivational Variables
and Personality Aspects Across the Life Course' at the Leibniz Institute for
Educational Trajectories at the University of Bamberg.

Jan Skopek is senior research scientist at
the Comparative Life Course & Inequality Research Center of the European
University Institute in Florence and is conducting cross-national comparisons in
the eduLIFE project, which is supported by an advanced grant from the ERC.