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Authors: Raudenská, Petra
Single-item measures of general well-being are increasingly being analysed cross-culturally but without clear evidence of comparability level attainment. The primary objective of this study is to examine the cross-country measurement invariance of the two most common single-item...
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Authors: Hanzlová, Radka
The aim of this study was to validate the Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale (TSWLS; Pavot et al., 1998) in the Czech language, including the examination of its psychometric properties and measurement invariance by gender and age. The TSWLS is a 15-item instrument for measurin...
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Authors: Krejčí, Jindřich
The chapter provides an introduction into several problematic issues concerned organisation of public opinion polls and publication of their results in media.
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Authors: Krejčí, Jindřich
The book has following major objectives: (1) to provide an overview of the criteria of quality considered desirable in sample surveys; (2) to evaluate the survey climate in the Czech Republic; and (3) to perform an in-depth analysis of two key topics: the nonresponse problem in s...
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Authors: Krejčí, Jindřich
A low response rate is regarded as one of the main sources of variable variance and bias in mass survey estimates. There is a consensus among scholars and pollsters that response-rate trends have been declining, and that this fact poses one of the most serious problems affecting...
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Authors: Červenka, Jan
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Authors: Vinopal, Jiří
The article stands as the third part of a series about the question answering process during standardized surveys and elaborates the judgment making phase. The first part deals with attitude questions. In this regard, relevant theories of the nature of attitude are explained; con...
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Authors: Chylíková, Johana
The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the problems associated with the fielding of questions of a socially sensitive nature  typically dealing with crime, health, and sexual activity in nationally representative sample surveys. This article presents an overvie...
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Authors: Simonová, Natalie
From August 19 to August 27, 2004, the University of Southampton, U.K., became the venue of a workshop on the Theory and practice in the analysis of longitudinal data. The workshop was organised by the European Science Foundation as part of the programme Quantitative Methods in t...
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Authors: BUCHTÍK, Martin; HAMPEJS, Tomáš
Text představuje aktivní role-playing jako výzkumnou experimentální metodu v sociálních vědách. Zasazuje role-playing   do rámce simulačních výzkumných  metod, rozkrývá jeho epistemologii a dosavadní metodologická uchopení zejména v sociální psychologii.  Hlavní li...
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Authors: Stöckelová, Tereza
A new collection that analyses how exactly comparison -- as a particular type of social scientific practice -- is done, while assessing some of its opportunities and limitations. It features case studies of comparative practices that range from colonial architecture, to hacking c...
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Authors: Matouš Pilnáček, Paulína Tabery, Martin Vávra
Internet se v posledních třech desetiletích stal integrální součástí soudobých společností a jeho obsah postupně ohromně narůstá a velmi dynamicky se proměňuje. I tak však společenské vědy a společenští vědci nevěnují přílišnou pozornost tomu, jaké svědectví může web nabídnout oh...
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Authors: Krejčí, Jindřich, Yana Leontiyeva (eds.)
The main aim of this book is to provide researchers on Czech society, politics and economy with two key resources: (1) a useful tool for working with data sources available for the study of Czech society and (2) a ready source of information and advice for processing their own re...
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Authors: Vinopal, Jiří
The article informs of surveys conducted during the project „Forms and Effectivity of Intermediation of Interests between Individuals, social groups and the State.“
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Authors: Krejčí, Jindřich
Non-response rates among Czech respondents in surveys between 1995 and 2005 were almost twice the rate between 1991 and 1995. Such trends point to a decline in the “survey climate.” While non-contacts and refusals are a significant problem, issues relating to how fiel...
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Authors: Červenka, Jan
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Authors: Vinopal, Jiří
The article stands as a second part of a series about the question answering process during standardized surveys. In case of memory retrieval phase the main psychological conceptions of memory are introduced and issues of factual information retrieval, initial encoding of the inf...

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