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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 concepts and 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 surveys.
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 perspectives rarely features in survey research methodology handbooks.
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Perfect for upper undergraduate and graduate academic researchers who specialize in survey research methodology, Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences will also earn a place in the libraries of survey practitioners who engage in international research.
Irina Tomescu-Dubrow is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Christof Wolf is President of GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim in Germany.
Kazimierz Slomczynski is Director of Cross-National Studies at the Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program in the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Ohio State University.
J. Craig Jenkins is Academy Professor of Sociology and Senior Research Scientist at the Mershon Center for International Security at the Ohio State University.
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