Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course

This open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hard-to-reach, hard-to-survey populations. Inside, readers will discover first-hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities acr...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Oris, Michel (Editor), Roberts, Caroline (Editor), Joye, Dominique (Editor), Ernst Stähli, Michèle (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
Series:Life Course Research and Social Policies
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Surveying Vulnerabilities across the Life Course: Balancing Substantive and Methodological Challenges: Michel Oris, Caroline Roberts, Dominique Joye, Michèle Ernst-Stähli
  • Representation of Vulnerability and the Elderly. A Total Survey Error Perspective on the VLV Survey: Michel Oris, Eduardo Guichard, Marthe Nicolet, Rainer Gabriel, Aude Tholomier, Christophe Monnot, Delphine Fagot, Dominique Joye
  • Adapting Quantitative Survey Procedures: The Price to Capture Vulnerability? Lessons from a Large-scale Survey on Aging and Migration in Switzerland: Laure Kaeser
  • Vulnerability following a critical life event: temporary crisis or chronic distress? A psychological controversy, methodological considerations, and empirical evidence:Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello, Sara Hutchison, Bina Knöpfli
  • A Survey of Couples Facing Breast Cancer in Women: Linda Charvoz, Nicolas Favez, SarahCairo Notari, Bénédicte Panes-Ruedin, Jean-François Delaloye
  • A longitudinal research on professional trajectories: Preliminary results from the 1st wave of data collection on a representative sample: Christian Maggiori, Jérôme Rossier, Franciska Krings, Claire Johnston, Koorosh Massoudi
  • How to survey displaced workers in Switzerland? Sources of bias and ways around them:Isabel Baumann, Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, Caroline Vandenplas
  • Using Life History Calendars to Survey Vulnerability: Davide Morselli, Nora Dasoki, Rainer Gabriel, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Julia Henke, Jean-Marie LeGoff
  • Data collection through a social network: First impressions: Véronique Eicher, Mouna Bakouri, Christian Staerklé, Marlene Carvalhosa Barbosa, Alain Clémence
  • Attrition in the Swiss Household Panel: are vulnerable groups more affected than others: Martina Rothenbühler, Marieke Voorpostel