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Replication Data for: Questions of Quality - Is Data Quality Still Tied to Survey Mode?
The increasing popularity of online surveys in the social sciences led to an ongoing discussion about mode effects in survey research. The following article tests if commonly discussed mode-effects (e.g. sample differences, data quality; item-non response, social desirability and open-ended question) can indeed be reproduced in a non-experimental mixed-mode study. Using data...
Democracy and Local Governance
The study attempted a comparative examination of the impact of leaders' values on social change and development at the community level. There is an individual file for each respondent, and, in addition, a community file was constructed to describe each community. The community file describes the social and economic aspects of the community using aggregate data. It also...
Power Structures of Finnish Society 2001
In this power structure survey, the Finnish power elite is under observation. The respondents were from the following sectors of society: politics, administration, business life, organisations, mass media, science and culture. The study focuses on institutional leadership positions and roles in the various sectors, not on the persons as such. There were 1,285 elite positions...
Finnish EU Attitudes 2003
The survey studies what Finns think about the membership in the European Union and international issues in general. Therefore, this survey covers other topics than EU matters as well, such as international affairs. The respondents were asked how interested they were in matters connected to Finland's membership in the EU, how actively did they follow these matters and how...
Finnish EU Attitudes 2005
The survey investigated Finnish opinions on the European Union and other international issues. The respondents were asked how interested they were of matters connected to the EU and Finland's EU membership, and how well informed they were of these issues. The survey carried a number of statements relating to Russia, the United States, Turkey, Estonia, Finland's EU...
EVA Survey on Finnish Values and Attitudes 2016
The main themes of the survey included differences between population groups, the so-called local labour agreements (increased freedom and flexibility for employers and employees to agree on the terms of employment locally), economic decline in Finland, globalisation, Finnish foreign policy, the EU and eurozone, and civic participation. First, the respondents were asked to...
Activists 2004
The purpose of the study is to give a nuanced image of activists within the Global Justice Movement in Sweden. Based on a survey carried through at three Swedish local social forums in 2004, the study highlights some aspects of the activists within this contemporary movement: political attitudes, experiences of political action, and social and demographical background...
Academics during the 90ies - A study of working conditions for members of the Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations (SACO)
The purpose of the survey was to obtain current knowledge about the work situation, as well as deepened understanding for important conditions, for different occupational groups with academic background. A questionnaire was sent to every fiftieth member of the Swedish Confederation of Professional Association (SACO).
The questionnaire was divided into following areas:...
The National SOM Survey 2008
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 2008 is accordingly the twenty-third survey in this series.
The SOM-institute is a collaboration between three departments/institutes at Göteborg...
Slovene public opinion survey 2005/1:
The survey is a part of all-European project which intention is to annotate social changes in certain time period. Thematically the survey is focused on attitudes towards work. The questionnaire is composed out of seven parts. The first part contains questions about employment and work conditions. The second block is asking about social situation and material circumstances,...
Replication files: The Cultural Dimension of the Globalization Divide: Data from a Conjoint Experiment
This dataset contains data from a survey of university students in Berlin. The survey was conducted to collect data for a study that analyzes the cultural dimension of the globalization divide. In this study, the survey respondents are used as a proxy population for cosmopolitans. The central part of the survey is a conjoint experiment, in which respondents evaluate profiles...
EVA Survey on Finnish Values and Attitudes 2006
The survey charted Finnish attitudes and values. The respondents were presented with a series of attitudinal statements covering occupational life, work-life balance, social welfare, environmental issues, influencing, decision-making, political life, economy, globalisation, and political power. They were also asked how the government should prioritise different areas of its...
Finnish EU Attitudes 2007
The survey charted Finnish public opinion on the European Union membership, foreign policy, the relationship between Finland and Russia, and the potential NATO membership. The respondents were first asked how interested they were in matters related to the Finnish EU membership, and how well they thought they were informed about these matters. The survey also carried a number...
Services Values Matrix, 2004
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This research project followed up a previous Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project (grant number R000223210, data not currently held at the UK Data Archive) that empirically described the world city network in 2000. This later project created a similar set of data for 2004, to describe...
Discourses of Globalisation and European Integration in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 2004-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The principal objective of the research was to survey and map elite political attitudes to globalisation, European integration and the relationship between the two. Explicitly designed as a pilot study for a broader multi-country and multi-language European comparative analysis, the focus of the project...
Inventing Adulthoods, 1996-2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Inventing Adulthoods (IA) archive currently consists of qualitative interview transcripts for 30 young people interviewed up to six times. Transcripts for a further 20 young people will be included in the archive in the near future. Inventing Adulthoods is a qualitative longitudinal (QL) study that...
Euroscepticism: Dimensions, causes and consequences in times of crisis 2019
These data include three nationally representative internet panel surveys conducted in Greece (n=3071), Germany (n=2074) and the UK (n=2106) between 24 and 31 May 2019. There is only one wave. The questionnaire is the same in all three countries. It covered a variety of issues including attitudes towards the European Union, vote in a potential European Union referendum,...
Redefining local civil society in an age of global interconnectivity 2017-2018
A series of interviews were conducted with participants in local organizations and stakeholders in three localities that are engaged with global issues. Issues include refugees and asylum seekers; the environment, including climate change and anti-plastic campaigning; and food, including food banks and food waste. The three localities are Aberystwyth, Mumbles (Swansea) and...
Market for Migrant Domestic and Sex Workers, 2002-2006
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a mixed-methods dataset.
The study explored attitudes towards, and experience of, the markets for migrant domestic and sex workers in the UK and Spain through a combination of interview and survey research. The interviews were structured around a standard set of topics, and examined respondents'...
Transnational Provisioning and The Trading of Health-Related Services in the UK, India and China, 2019-2023
This research was about the transnational engagements between wealthy countries and emerging economies and the relationship with commercialisation of healthcare. The research team was composed of social scientists from King's College London, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Sun Yat-sen University and the University of Sussex. To explore this issue, we used publicly available...
The Next Frontier of Climate Policy: Joining the Dots of Bricks, Trade and Embodied Emissions from Cambodia and Bangladesh to the UK, 2020-2021
Building on the achievements of the ESRC-DFID funded project Blood Bricks, in Cambodia and Safe and Sustainable Cities, in Bangladesh, this program aimed to extend the in-country benefit of those projects upwards and outwards in order to examine the intersections between poverty, environmental sustainability and fragility of livelihoods. Bringing together experts in supply...
Democracy and Local Governance, 1966 and 1991
The study attempted a comparative examination of the impact of leaders' values on social change and development at the community level. There is an individual file for each respondent, and, in addition, a community file was constructed to describe each community. The community file describes the social and economic aspects of the community using aggregate data. It also...
The Advent Of Imam Mahdi As The Avenger Of Imam Hussein
Purpose: This article attempts to deal with the events that took place during the advent (reappearance) of Imam Mahdi, the Savior of all the worlds. In fact, in this article, we will discuss the forces that will join him when the Imam of the time appears, and above all, with Imam Hussein and how globalization can pave the way for Imam Mahdi's world revolution. Also, this...
EVA Survey on Finnish Values and Attitudes 2017
The survey charted the values and attitudes of Finnish people. The main themes of the 2017 survey included the Finnish basic education system, municipal services and how they are provided, economic differences between population groups, the Finnish political system, social security, democracy, globalisation, Finnish foreign policy, and the EU and eurozone. First, the...
Young People, Voluntary Organisations and Globalisation 2001
The survey charted youth (aged between 10-29) attitudes towards voluntary organisations in Finland. Respondents were asked if they at present belong to some non-governmental organisation, association or club. In addition, the data contain information on why young people are members of such organisations and what organisations they would like to belong to, for example,...
Interviews of the Academy of Finland Research Professors 1994-1996
The data consist of 58 transcribed interviews of Academy of Finland Research Professors (nowadays Academy Professors) who held the post between 1975 and 1995. A permeating theme in the interviews was the internationalization of Finnish scientific research. Discussions covered the impact of the focus areas chosen in Finnish research policy, i.e. internationalization and...
Industrial work and de-industrialization
At the class with study topic “Oral History” with the professor Antonis Antoniou collected 19 biographical narrative interviews from the students of I.A.K.A. during the winter semester of 2018 for the subject of deindustrialization. The aim of the research was to record the changes in working life and their meaning by men and women who worked in factories during the last...
Study of regionalization of the northern parts of Sweden 2008
In order to capture the views that the citizens in the northern parts of Sweden hold on regionalization and their opinions about the preconditions for development in the north, a citizen survey was carried out from September 2008. Among the citizens in the four northernmost counties, 4000 respondents have been randomly selected to take part in the survey. The questionnaire...
Professional Education, Global Professional Service Firms and the Cultures of Professional Work in Europe, 2009
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Global accountancy, architecture and legal professional service firms (PSFs) play a vital role in the global economy and facilitate cross border business. Their operations are, however, complicated by the fact that the home-country, predominantly US and UK, professional cultures, practices and...
Making Feminist Sense of 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement', 2004-2005
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This research aims to make sense of 'the anti-globalisation movement' from a feminist perspective. It seeks to offer a feminist conceptualization of this movement as well as an empirical mapping of women's and feminist anti-globalisation activism.
The collection and analysis of data has been informed by...