Chapter is devoted to the analysis of the problem of standardization in international surveys using the example of educational achievement. Author focuses on international classification of education (ISCED a CASMIN), discusses the methodological problems related to measurement of education, and the difficulties of comparing the educational systems in different countries, including the examples of solutions used in international social survey research projects (ESS, EVS, ISSP, PISA).
Topic: methodology, sociological data, education
Authors of the book reveal and deconstruct seven myths that block open discussion and reforms in the area of childcare policy in the Czech Republic, and formulate the principles of non-discriminatory childcare policy.
Topic: gender, care, parenting, family
Authors discuss the problem of standardization of measures of social status and social class in international comparative surveys. Apart from presenting occupational scales: occupational prestige SIOPS and socioeconomic status ISEI-08, the authors also discuss in detail the principles behind Goldthorpe’s EGP class schema and its successor European socio-economic classification ESeC/ESeG.
Topic: methodology, work, social inequalities, sociological data
In this chapter the authors name seven myths that they have identified in Czech society, which block development of Czech childcare policy.
Topic: care, parenting, family, public policy
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 research data.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
The text presents an overview of the importance of comparative research with special reference to databases containing information on the most important international research projects where there has been Czech participation. This chapter provides some basic information about the survey data and their availability. As an aid to providing the reader with a convenient overview of these data sources a series of summary tables are presented.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
Author provides an introduction to the problems of data management. The chapter introduces the main concepts of data management and addresses the important issues of data sharing and personal data protection.
Topic: sociological data
Chapter provides information about national survey data for the Czech Republic. A summary of producers of empirical sociological research and associated survey data files are presented. Discussion of these data files are presented thematically.
Topic: sociological data
Based on analysis of historical documents the author deconstructs the myth strongly held in the Czech Republic that nurseries are communist invention, and analyzes their operation in Czechoslovakia before 1989.
Topic: care, parenting
This chapter provides a general introduction to the problems of data management, data sharing and data analysis in social sciences and describes in detail the aim, the purpose and the structure of the book entitled Pathways to Data.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
This chapter provides an inventory and evaluation of the large number of survey datasets dealing with political and public policy topics that have been fielded in the Czech Republic since 1990. The text contains an evaluation of survey based research for elections to the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate and sub-national elections for regional and local levels of government. A short commentary on the use of Exit-polls and panel surveys is also provided.
Topic: methodology, politics (and political attitudes), sociological data, elections (and polls)
The chapter reveals that the myth that children below the age of three do not benefit from quality daycare is not based on current scientific knowledge and that the myth does not exist in all countries.
Topic: gender, care, parenting
The chapter describes creating and maintaining a data file during a research project. The author shows how to work with data in a step-by-step manner, starting with the creation of a data file, through to problems such as coding, weighing and data anonymization, and finishing up with the issue of data storage.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
The text provides an overview of international research projects with Czech and partially Slovak participation which focused on political issues. A description of Eurobarometer (EB), the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES), European Election Study (EES) and the Civic Education Study (CIVED) research programmes is provided. A part of the chapter is also devoted to political science data in international comparative surveys as ISSP, EVS, ESS and the World Values Survey (WVS).
Topic: methodology, politics (and political attitudes), sociological data
Public opinion research shows that most Czechs think children should stay at home the first three years. But the situation is more complicated and filled with contradictions.
Topic: care, parenting
The text describes labour market statistics and several research projects carried out by the Czech Statistical Office.
Topic: methodology, wages and incomes, work, sociological data
This chapter focuses primarily on standards of data documentation and archiving. The authors also describe the development of standards for data storage and provision of data. The text includes an analysis of the advantages and shortcomings of an international standard called DDI (Data Documentation Initiative).
Topic: methodology, sociological data
Chapter examines data sources of family research. The overview is limited to studies carried out in the last decade and those for which data are publicly available. The author provides an overview of relevant surveys and statistics on families, as well as information about where to find information on specific topics relevant for sociology of family, such as the attitudes to marriage and partnerships, sexual behaviour, parenting, abortion and family roles.
Topic: methodology, human relations, parenting, family, sociological data
This chapter presents a short overview of childcare policies implemented in Scandinavian countries, France and Germany, and shows that these policies stem from different ideologies. Based on an institutional analysis the authors then discuss the ways in which Czech conservatives have managed to gain great influence over Czech childcare policy.
Topic: care, parenting, public policy
The chapter focuses on the special role of social science data archives in the domain of social science research. Authors describe which data and metadata are archived and under what conditions they are provided to users for secondary data analysis. The description of archiving system Nesstar is presented.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
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