European Social Survey

The European Social Survey (ESS) is a social scientific endeavour to map the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of the various populations in Europe.
ESS is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org.^[1]

History

The ESS was initiated by the European Science Foundation. One of the reasons to start this new time series of social scientific data was that existing cross-national attitude surveys were regarded as not of sufficient methodological rigour to draw on as reliable sources for knowledge about changes over time in Europe. Starting in 2002 the survey has been held every two years in many European countries, with round 6 (2012) covering 30 nations.

Prize

In 2005 the ESS was the winner of the Descartes Prize, an annual European science award.^[2]

Bibliography

• Roger Jowell, Caroline Roberts, Rory Fitzgerald, Gillian Eva (ed.): Measuring Attitudes Cross-Nationally. Lessons from the European Social Survey, Sage Publications, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4129-1981-4

Notes

External links

• http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/
• http://ess.nsd.uib.no/

Social survey research
Gathering data	Collection methods Census Sampling for surveys Random sampling Questionnaire Interview Structured Semi-structured Unstructured Couple
Analyzing data	Categorical data Contingency table Level of measurement Descriptive statistics Exploratory data analysis Multivariate statistics Psychometrics Statistical inference Statistical models Graphical Log-linear Structural
Applications	Audience measurement Demography Market research Opinion poll Public opinion
Major surveys	Afrobarometer American National Election Studies Eurobarometer European Social Survey European Values Study Gallup Poll General Social Survey International Social Survey Latinobarómetro List of household surveys in the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study World Values Survey
Associations	American Association for Public Opinion Research European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research International Statistical Institute Pew Research Center World Association for Public Opinion Research
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