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APOLOGIES for any cross-posting

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Dear colleagues,

we kindly remind you that the CFP-deadline for the 4th EU-Microdata User Conferences in Mannheim, March 5-6, 2015 is approaching.

Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political science, public health, and sociology) who use Eurostat microdata  (EU-LFS, SILC, AES, SES, CIS, EHIS or HBS ) are encouraged to participate and to submit an abstract. All presentations must be comparative and include data from at least two countries.

Topics addressed include e.g. the impact of the crisis on employment and unemployment, quality of work, innovativeness of enterprises, labour migration, poverty and social exclusion, income inequality, household expenditure, adult education, population health. In addition to substantive issues, presentations focusing on methodological topics are also welcomed. They may include e.g. questions of data quality, cross-national and inter-temporal comparability as well as the comparability of different EU surveys.All presentations must be comparative and include data from at least two countries.

The deadline for submissions of abstracts is September 30, 2014.

Proposals should be submitted online via the presentation submission form at the conference webpage.

Abstracts should not be longer than 1000 words. The abstract should be informative, clearly state the research question, indicate the dataset(s) used and the countries analyzed. The submitters will be notified by December 20, 2014, whether their paper was accepted for presentation or not.

For any further questions please contact the local organizers

Christof Wolf (Christof.wolf@gesis.org) and Heike Wirth (heike.wirth@gesis.org)

and visit the conference webpage at

http://www.gesis.org/en/events/conferences/european-user-conference-4/

Proposals should be submitted online via the presentation submission form:

http://www.gesis.org/en/events/conferences/european-user-conference-3/submission-form/

Please feel free to share this link with any colleague who might be interested.

Kind regards

Heike Wirth and Christof Wolf