Final Report from the ZA-EUROLAB 1996 – 2000

Table of Contents

Summary Report from the ZA-EUROLAB 1996 – 2000

Provenance and Structure of the ZA-EUROLAB Users

Type of Services Enlisted by the Users

Institutional Background of the Users and Fields of Research Carried Out at the Facility

List of Publications Resulting From Research Carried out at the ZA-EUROLAB

ZA-EUROLAB TMR-LSF Research Abstracts 1996 – 2000

Beatriz Acha: "A Comparative Study on the Social Bases of Support for New Extreme Right-Wing Parties in Western Europe"

Erling B. Andersen: "Application of the Rating Scale Model to the Measurement of Job Satisfaction based on the 1989 ISSP Survey"

Vincenzo Andrietti: "Occupational Pensions and Interfirm Labour Mobility in the European Union. Theory and Evidence from E.C.H.P. Data"

L. Andries van der Ark: "Application of Models for Compositional Data on Comparative Data Sets"

Simona Balbi User Group: "Improving Data Quality in Repeated Surveys"

Sten Berglund User Group: "The Conditions of European Democracy"

Jaak Billiet User Group: "Equivalence of Measurement Instruments for Attitude Variables in Comparative Surveys, taking Method Effects into Account: The Case of Ethnocentrism"

Ian Budge User Group: "Monitoring Democratic Five Year Plans: Multiple Coding of British Manifestos and US-Platforms"

Marcel Coenders: "National Identification of Majority-Groups and Exclusion of Ethnic Groups"

Irene Martín Cortés: "Political Interest in Greece and Spain in the Context of Western Europe"

Daniela Danna: "European Policies about Prostitution in Comparative Perspective"

Paul De Boeck: "Probability Matrix Decomposition Models"

Karel Dobbelaere User Group: "Religious and Moral Pluralism (Data Confrontation Seminar)"

Jocelyn A J Evans: 1. "Explaining Left-Wing Defection to the Extreme Right in Europe"

Jocelyn A J Evans: 2. "Contrasting Attitudinal Bases to Euroscepticism"

John C. Gower: "The Quality of Graphical Representations of Categorical Variables in Multidimensional Scaling: Mathematical and Methodological Implications"

J.A.P. Hagenaars: "Using Loglinear Models with Latent Variables for Correcting Response errors in Comparative Research"

Bernadette C. Hayes: "A Comparative Study of Religious Independents and Religious Affiliates within Established Western Democracies"

Björn Henrichsen User Group: "Survey Data in the Internet: Tools for Documentation and Distribution"

Oddbjørn Knutsen: "Religion and Social Class as Party Cleavages in Western Europe – a Comparative Study"

Tor Korneliussen: "Participation in Training Seminar: Analysis of Complex Data Sets"

S.E. Korupp: "The Influence of the Mother on the Process of Stratification"

Nicholas T. Longford: "Multiple Imputation in the ISSP Database"

Miranda Lubbers: "Correlational Structures of Supportive Transactions within Personal Networks"

Juan I. Modroño User Group: "An Approximation of the Analysis of Multiple Tables of Categorical Analysis" (by Juan I. Modroño)

Juan I. Modroño User Group: "Family and Changing Gender Roles in Spain and other Countries: Factor Analysis of Conditioned Questions Surveys" (by Beatriz Goitisolo)

Paul Niewbeerta User Group: "The International Social Cleavages and Politics Project"

Cecilie Ohm: "Comparison of Institutional Developments at the University of Bergen and other Norwegian Universities"

Michal Peleg: "Statistical Information System for Comparative Regional Analysis"

Gary Pollock: "Longitudinal Analysis of Employment History Data"

Rudolf Richter User Group: "EuReporting - Towards a European System of Social Reporting and Welfare Measurement Subproject 2.4: Stocktaking of Comparative Databases in Survey Research"

Albert Satorra: "Across Country Invariance of Job Satisfaction: a MIMIC Modelling Approach"

Wijbrandt H. van Schuur: "Nonmetric Unidimensional Survey Measurement using Large Scale Data Sets"

Elin Skiftesvik: "Civil Society in Eastern Europe"

Ursula Tentschert: "Transport Mobility and Time Budget"

Matthias Till: "Consequences of the Federal Budgetary Cuts on the Social Situation of Students"

Christian Vermehren: "The Field of Advertising. A Study in Sociology"

Pieter van Wijnen: "Policy Voting in Advanced Industrialised Democracies. The Case of The Netherlands 1971-1998"

Additional Research Projects not yet included in the Overview of Abstracts

Minutes of the Annual User Meeting, December 17th 1997

Minutes of the Annual User Meeting, October 2nd 1998

Minutes of the Annual User Meeting, October 30th 1999: Infrastructure needs for Comparative Social Research