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Microcensus Ad-Hoc-Module 'Labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants' 2014 (SUF edition)
Full edition for scientific use. In addition to the core variables of the Microcensus Labour Force Survey (LFS), the LFS also has so-called ad-hoc-modules (AHM) that can vary from year to year. The EU-LFS ad-hoc-module 2014 on ‘Labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants’ is divided into two submodules: background of the target population, obstacles...
Cultural Behaviour of Swedish-Speaking Finns 1992
The main themes of the survey were respondents' cultural behaviour and background, Finland-Swedish identity, and Finland-Swedish language. Respondents belong to the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland. The data were collected as part of the Finlandssvenska kulturindikatorer (Finland-Swedish cultural indicators) project. Swedish-speaking Finns were asked about their cultural...
Opinions on the State of the Finnish Language 2013
The survey charted citizen views on written and spoken Finnish. Themes studied included, for instance, language change, the relationship between written and spoken language, loanwords from English, and language practices in the public sphere. Opinions on the use of Finnish and its change were charted. The respondents were asked how important they regarded the well-being of...
RWAAI: Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage
The Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage (RWAAI) is a digital multimedia resource dedicated to the maintenance of research materials documenting the intangible heritage of the Austroasiatic communities of Mainland Southeast Asia and India. It is the first resource dedicated to a specific language family in this diverse and dynamic region.
RWAAI...
The National SOM Survey 2006
Since 1986 the SOM-institute has been carrying out an annual nation-wide survey of Swedish opinions. This is accordingly the twentyfirst survey in this series. The SOM-institute is a collaboration between three departments at Göteborg University: the Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication, the Department of Political Science, and the School of Public Administration....
The National SOM Survey 2007
Since 1986 the SOM-institute has been carrying out an annual nation-wide survey - the National SOM - in order to identify the Swedish public's habits and attitudes on the topics of society, politics and media. National SOM 2007 is accordingly the twentysecond survey in this series.
The SOM-institute is a collaboration between three departments/institutes at Göteborg...
The Global Swedes Abroad SOM Survey 2014
In the autumn of 2014 the first SOM survey aimed at Swedes living abroad, was conducted. The SOM survey to expatriates focus, like the National SOM surveys, on three themes - society, public opinion and mass media. The survey was answered by 2668 people in 103 countries.
Research Director was Maria Solevid.
Purpose:
The main purpose is to examine the habits, values and...
The Regional Skåne SOM Survey 2015
This is the sixth SOM survey conducted in the region of Skåne. The questionnaire was divided into ten subject fields: Local news; Politics and democracy; To live in Skåne; Traffic and communications; Internet and mobile phones; Activities, interests and values; Denmark; Housing; Working life; Background.
Purpose:
Study attitudes and behaviour linked to local and regional...
The National SOM Survey 1998
Since 1986 the SOM-institute has been carrying out an annual nation-wide survey of Swedish opinions. This is accordingly the thirteenth survey in this series. The SOM-institute is a collaboration between three departments at Göteborg University: the Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication, the Department of Political Science, and the School of Public Administration....
Child Development Research Unit Longitudinal Study: Composite File Including Ages One, Four, Seven, Eleven and Sixteen, 1958-1978
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this longitudinal survey study was to investigate parent/child relationships in developmental sequence in order to understand the process of child-rearing as it happens in a fairly typical English urban community. To achieve a detailed picture of the child's behaviour in the home and its...
Camfed Tanzania and Zimbabwe Girls' Educational Challenge Step Change Window Secondary School Student Longitudinal Survey, 2013-2015
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) was launched by the UK in 2012 as a 12 year commitment to reach the most marginalised girls in the world and is the largest global fund dedicated to girls’ education. The UK is committed to ensuring over a million girls in some of the poorest countries, including...
Young Lives: School Survey, Ethiopia, 2016-2017
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Young Lives survey is an innovative long-term project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four developing countries. The study is being conducted in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam and has tracked the lives of 12,000 children over a 20-year period, through 5 (in-person) survey...
Community Life Survey, 2017-2018
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Community Life Survey (CLS) is a household survey conducted in England, tracking the latest trends and developments across areas key to encouraging social action and empowering communities, including: volunteering and charitable giving; views about the local area; community cohesion and belonging;...
Scottish Survey of Adult Literacies, 2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of the Scottish Survey of Adult Literacies, 2009 (SSAL2009) was to update existing data on working age (16-65 year old) adults’ literacies skills, and to provide a new baseline estimate of the general population’s levels of literacies skills in Scotland. This included an assessment of skills on...
Young Lives: an International Study of Childhood Poverty: Round 3, 2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Young Lives survey is an innovative long-term project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four developing countries. The study is being conducted in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam and has tracked the lives of 12,000 children over a 20-year period, through 5 (in-person) survey...
Politics and International Relations in the Russian Federation, 2008
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Politics and International Relations in the Russian Federation, 2008 includes the results of a nationally representative survey of the Russian voters conducted shortly after the December 2007 Russian Duma election. The survey addressed issues of socio-political and economic attitudes, media consumption...
Longitudinal Three-Nation Study on Relations between Ethnic Minorities and Host Societies among School Students, 2004-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The project looked at the views of adolescent school students in three European countries; England, Germany and Belgium. Using the same questionnaire in three languages, members of ethnic minority groups and members of the host societies were targeted. Based on social psychological research on intergroup...
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Multiple Cues in Language Learning, 2014-2019
It has long been claimed that the child’s experience of language is not sufficient to enable them to learn language, and so language structure must be innate and internal to the child. However, this traditional view depends on considering the child’s experience of language only in terms of the sequences of words that children hear. Yet, the language environment is rich,...
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Defaulting Effects Contribute to the Simulation of Cross-linguistic Differences in Optional Infinitive Errors, 2014-2020
This paper describes an extension to the MOSAIC model
which aims to increase MOSAIC’s fit to the cross-linguistic
occurrence of Optional Infinitive (OI) errors. While previous
versions of MOSAIC have successfully simulated these errors
as truncated compound finites with missing modals or
auxiliaries, they have tended to underestimate the rate of OI
errors in (some)...
Social-Psychological Predictors of Support for Terrorism, 2009-2011
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Using a social-psychological approach that views terrorism as a violent manifestation of intergroup behaviour, this project aims to identify contextual and psychological predictors of support for (and opposition to) political violence among British Muslims.
This mixed-methods research was conducted in...
National Survey for Wales, 2014-2015
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Welsh Government's National Survey for Wales covers a random sample of 12,000 adults a year (aged 16+) living in private households across Wales. The survey provides representative, reliable and up-to-date information about the people of Wales down to local authority level.The survey began in 2012. In...
Young Lives: School Survey, Ethiopia, 2012-2013
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Young Lives survey is an innovative long-term project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four developing countries. The study is being conducted in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam and has tracked the lives of 12,000 children over a 20-year period, through 5 (in-person) survey...
Community Life Survey, 2014-2015
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Community Life Survey (CLS) is a household survey conducted in England, tracking the latest trends and developments across areas key to encouraging social action and empowering communities, including: volunteering and charitable giving; views about the local area; community cohesion and belonging;...
Supporting children's school readiness 2015-2018
Language comprehension relies on the ability to make local and global inferences (e.g., inferring what a pronoun refers to, or inferring why a protagonist in a story did something based on information distributed through the text). These skills develop in the preschool years and are demonstrated when children make sense of stories that are read to them. While important for...
Vocal Learning in Adulthood: Investigating the mechanisms of vocal imitation using MRI of the vocal tract and brain 2015-2018
This collection contains behavioural and brain activation data from 3 laboratory studies of speech imitation. Each of the three studies involved behavioural and imaging (MRI) test sessions in which participants were familiarised with novel auditory speech targets, and were asked to imitate them as closely as possible. Across the three studies, there were variations in the...
Promoting language development in young children through shared reading, a randomised controlled trial 2015-2018
This is a randomised controlled trial of shared book reading with 150 children aged 2;6 to 3;0 which follows CONSORT guidelines.
Dyads were randomly allocated to an intervention or control group. Parents in the intervention groups were be taught to read with their children using a particular reading style (dialogic reading or pause reading) and parents in the control...
Young Lives: an International Study of Childhood Poverty: Round 4, 2013-2014
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Young Lives survey is an innovative long-term project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four developing countries. The study is being conducted in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam and has tracked the lives of 12,000 children over a 20-year period, through 5 (in-person) survey...
Polish and Lithuanian Workers: Opportunities and Challenges for Trade Unions, 2004-2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This research project, conducted jointly by the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, and the Trades Union Congress (TUC), surveyed Polish and Lithuanian nationals working in the UK who had requested TUC leaflets on employment rights and the role of trades unions....
Witness and Victim Experience Survey, 2007/8-2009/10
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Witness and Victim Experience Survey (WAVES) was designed to provide data at both a national (England and Wales) level and Local Criminal Justice Board (LCJB) level about victims' and witnesses' experiences of the Criminal Justice System (CJS), the services they receive, and their satisfaction with...
Citizenship Survey, 2010-2011
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Citizenship Survey (known in the field as the Communities Study) ran from 2001 to 2010-2011. It began as the 'Home Office Citizenship Survey' (HOCS) before the responsibility moved to the new Communities and Local Government department (DCLG) in May 2006. The survey provided an evidence base for the...