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Dear colleague,
We would like to draw your attention to the following session at the ESRA 2011 meeting:
Analyzing social change with repeated cross-sections
Over the past decades social surveys have become an indispensable tool for social monitoring. Today, scholars studying social change have the data of many national and international survey programs at their finger tips. The strength of surveys like the General Social Survey in the US, the ALLBUS in Germany or the British Social Attitudes Surveys in the UK is that they regularly replicate items thereby allowing the analysis of social change. International surveys like the EVS or the ISSP, also covering several decades of replicated cross-sections, add the opportunity to examine social change in a cross-national perspective.
The papers in this session should have a methodological focus on strategies and techniques for analyzing repeated cross-sections. Papers dealing with cohort studies and how to assess the impact of age/period/cohort (APC) driven social change are especially welcome. The papers may, e.g., contribute to the further development of APC-methods in the context of other statistical tools such as multilevel analysis or random effects models. Papers addressing a substantive research question are also welcome as long as the research question is related to social change and the methodological aspects of the chosen study design and data analysis are reflected.
To submit a paper please visit tghe following website and follow the instructions (see also attached file):
http://surveymethodology.eu/conferences/
Deadline January 14, 2011
Christof Wolf & Tilo Becker
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Christof Wolf Sprecher der Sektion Methoden der Empirischen Sozialforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Tel. 0621 1246-153, -197