1. The other ESS the European Social Survey and the European Statistical System
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Ineke Stoop

2. European Statistical System European Social Survey
What do they have in common?
How do they differ?
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3. European Statistical System European Social Survey
What do they have in common?
How do they differ?
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4. What do they have in common?
High standards
Maximising accuracy
Definitions
Target population
Concepts
Guidelines and instructions
Transparancy and documentation
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5. How do they differ: organisation
European Social Survey
European Research Infrastructure Consortium
Participation voluntary
Academic survey
National contribution for overhead
Central coordination
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6. How do they differ: sources
European Statistical System: multiple sources
Surveys
Register/admin data
Big data
European Social Survey: survey and auxiliary sources
Survey data
Aggregate regional data
Events during fieldwork
Contact form data
Sample file data (restricted)
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7. How do they differ: quality targets
European Social Survey
Optimal comparability
Input harmonisation
Single mode (face-to-face)
Identical questionnaire (translated)
Survey period?
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8. How do they differ: topics
European Statistical System (surveys)
(Business surveys)
Socio-demographic data
Behaviour
Attitudes, opinions
Objective?
European Social Survey
Academic competion question modules
Attitudes, opinions, values
Behavioural patterns
Subjective?
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9. How do they differ: coverage
European Statistical System
EU, EFTA, accession countries
Target population varies
European Social Survey
European countries (including Russia, Turkey, Israel)
Population 15+
Translated questionnaire for language minorities > 5%
Country coverage dependent on national funding
Small samples
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10. How do they differ: control
European Statistical System
Output harmonisation
Peer reviews
European Social Survey
Input harmonisation
Central co-ordination
Central control
Sign-off fieldwork plans
Sign-off sampling design
Verification translation
Central analysis contact forms
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11. ESS Spec: Fieldwork monitoring
Fieldwork monitoring survey agencies
Survey agencies should closely monitor the progress of fieldwork and provide information to the National Coordinator to allow reporting to the Core Scientific Team (CST) on at least a weekly basis (fortnightly if fieldwork planned to take longer than 10 weeks)
National Coordinator forwards progress reports to CST
Documents on NC intranet
ESS Round 8 guidelines on fieldwork progress reporting
ESS fieldwork progress at Round 7and projections for Round 8
Under development: Fieldwork Management and Monitoring System
a mobile application for interviewers
online centralised case management system survey agencies, NCs and fieldwork monitors within the CST
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12. ESS Spec: Fieldwork monitoring
Survey agencies should closely monitor the progress of fieldwork and provide information to the NC to allow reporting to the CST on at least a weekly basis (fortnightly if fieldwork planned to take longer than 10 weeks)
Documents on NC intranet
ESS Round 8 guidelines on fieldwork progress reporting
ESS fieldwork progress at Round 7and projections for Round 8
Under development: Fieldwork Management and Monitoring System
a mobile application for interviewers
online centralised case management system survey agencies, NCs and fieldwork monitors within the CST
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13. Interviewer effects Graph: Koen Beullens KU Leuven
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14. Fieldwork period and efforts
Graph: Koen Beullens KU Leuven
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15. Response outcomes European Social Survey, R5
Report on quality assessment of contact data files in Round 5: Final report 27 countries, Hideko Matsuo and Geert Loosveldt, Working paper Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) Survey Methodology CeSO/SM/2013-3

16. Response outcomes EU SILC 2010
2010 COMPARATIVE EU INTERMEDIATE QUALITY REPORT Version 3 – October 2012

17. How do they differ: main products
European Statistical System
Statistics
Indicators
Micro-data
European Social Survey
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18. How do they differ: users
European Statistical System
Policy-makers
Citizens
Industry
Academics
Media
European Social Survey
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19. ESS top data user countries (n>100)
ESS top data user countries (n>100) (December 2016) (N=100,600) (Nc=235)

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European Statistical System
European Social Survey
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21. Thank you for your attention
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Thank you for your attention