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Webinar: Following lives, informing policy: How longitudinal data empower NGOs, journalists, and policymakers | Infra4NextGen Participants will explore how they can guide better policies, advocacy, and reporting by presenting findings in clear, engaging formats that resonate with diverse audiences.

Register to attend a #webinar on making #data analysis relevant for non-academic audiences from 11am-12pm (CET) on Thursday 11 December.

Vytenis Deimantas (@share-eric.bsky.social 🇩🇪) will discuss how #research using longitudinal and cohort data can strengthen decision-making.

New members of the Core Scientific Team | European Social Survey The European Social Survey (ESS) Core Scientific Team is being updated by its Director with new and refreshed areas of work taking place over the next four years.

Our Core Scientific Team has been updated with new and refreshed areas of work over the next four years.

Work on analysis and training, #survey nonresponse and measuring impact will be led by teams from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social 🇳🇱, @gesis.org 🇩🇪, and @ipp-csic.bsky.social 🇪🇸.

The Infra4NextGen project has published a new report featuring analysis of Make it Green items from the self-completion web first panel (CRONOS-3).

Find the whole article and the report here: infra4nextgen.com/make-it-gree...

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Final release of Round 11 data | European Social Survey Data from all countries who took part in Round 11 (2023/24) of the European Social Survey (ESS) has been included in the latest release.

You can now view or download data from 31 countries who took part in the latest round of our #survey.

The updated Round 11 (2023/24) #dataset includes Estonia 🇪🇪 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 for the first time, alongside 29 other countries.

All our #data is freely available via our Data Portal.

New research out today on European public opinion on climate change, fairness, and climate action, using data from the #CRONOS3 panel across 11 countries (2024–25).(1/)

Full report here 👉: infra4nextgen.com/wp-content/u...

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Entre ambiente e economia, oito em cada 10 portugueses dão prioridade ao ambiente Estudo em 11 países europeus mostra que existe um apoio público sólido - mas condicional - à acção climática na Europa. Cidadãos exigem mais justiça e esperam mais liderança de empresas e governos.

Estudo em 11 países europeus mostra que existe um apoio público sólido - mas condicional - à acção climática na Europa. Cidadãos exigem mais justiça e esperam mais liderança de empresas e governos.

Make it Green: New report on the role of public opinion in addressing climate change | Infra4NextGen The Infra4NextGen project has today published a new report featuring analysis of Make it Green items from the self-completion web first panel (CRONOS-3).

The Infra4NextGen project has published a report featuring analysis of climate change questions from our panel survey (CRONOS-3).

Written by @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social (Cardiff University), the report covers attitudes towards #climate change, fairness, and action in 11 countries.

Note on unconditional incentives | European Social Survey The Core Scientific Team (CST) of the European Social Survey (ESS) has published a note on the requirement for countries to use unconditional incentives when inviting potential respondents to take part in its surveys.

Find out more about a requirement for countries to use unconditional incentives with invites to take part in our surveys.

The guidance is for countries who are participating in Round 12 (2025/6) and Round 13 (2027/28) of the #survey where initial invitations are being sent by post.

Fieldwork in times of war - Bergen Global How is social science data collected when a country is at war? What are the practical and ethical challenges of collecting representative data in a war-zone? And why is the data crucial for understanding social and political developments in Ukraine today?

An event being held at @bergenglobal.bsky.social 🇳🇴 and online from 8.30-9.30 (CET) on Tuesday 13 January 2026 will focus on #data collection in Ukraine 🇺🇦.

The event will explore the extraordinary efforts of our national team to interview respondents for Round 11 (2023/24) of our #survey.

Enhancing inclusivity and representation: Accessible design of the GP Patient Survey | City St George's, University of London In this survey methods webinar, Victoria Elsey, Molly Dawson and Katherine Fisher (Ipsos) will discuss measures to improve accessibility within the National Health Service's GP Patient Survey design.

Our next #survey methods #webinar will focus on the GP Patient Survey from 12-1pm (GMT) tomorrow (Tuesday 2 December).

Victoria Elsey, Molly Dawson and Katherine Fisher (@ipsosintheuk.bsky.social 🇬🇧) will discuss efforts to provide more accessible #questionnaires for respondents.

Note on unconditional incentives | European Social Survey The Core Scientific Team (CST) of the European Social Survey (ESS) has published a note on the requirement for countries to use unconditional incentives when inviting potential respondents to take…

We have published a note on the requirement for countries to use unconditional incentives when inviting potential respondents to take part in our #surveys.

The guidance is for Round 12 (2025/6) and Round 13 (2027/28) participating countries where invitations are being sent by post.

Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US Abstract. Social stratification is interested in unequal life chances and assumes the existence of a hierarchy of more or less advantageous occupations. Ye

Occupational Earning Potential has landed in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Implementable in R (digclass) and Stata (crosswalk), our linear OEP scale measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the earnings distribution academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Dr Véronique Siegler and Dan Finch (Office for National Statistics, ONS) delivered a survey methods webinar on Thursday 20 November 2025. The presentation provided an overview of recent work to… Understanding and addressing trust barriers in social surveys

Watch a recording of our latest #survey methods #webinar on encouraging participation in social surveys.

Véronique Siegler and Dan Finch (Office for National Statistics 🇬🇧) provided an overview of work to better understand and address trust-related barriers to respondent engagement.

Revision and Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Human Values Scale for Self-completion Modes | Published in Survey Practice Since its first round, the European Social Survey (ESS) has included a 21-item measure of ten basic human values shared across cultures, known as the Human Values Scale.

A short article about revising the human values scale has been published by Survey Practice (@aapor.bsky.social 🇺🇸).

The article focuses on testing a new version of the measure developed by the ESS and German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP 🇩🇪) in collaboration with Shalom Schwartz.

Enhancing inclusivity and representation: Accessible design of the GP Patient Survey | City St George's, University of London In this survey methods webinar, Victoria Elsey, Molly Dawson and Katherine Fisher (Ipsos) will discuss measures to improve accessibility within the National Health Service's GP Patient Survey design.

Join our next methods #webinar on enhancing inclusivity in #surveys from 12-1pm (GMT) next Tuesday (2 December).

Victoria Elsey, Molly Dawson and Katherine Fisher (@ipsosintheuk.bsky.social 🇬🇧) will discuss how they adapted the GP Patient Survey to help increase representativeness.

Final release of Round 11 data | European Social Survey Data from all countries who took part in Round 11 (2023/24) of the European Social Survey (ESS) has been included in the latest release.

Data from all 31 participating countries in Round 11 (2023/24) of our #survey is now available.

The latest #dataset includes Estonia 🇪🇪 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 for the first time, alongside #data from 29 other countries.

Are you part of an ERIC's staff? This webinar might interest you! Organised by the ERIC Forum 2 project, the third meeting of the ERIC Community of Practice – Privacy and Data Protection will be dedicated to FAIR data principles. Register here 👉 bit.ly/4oSad0z

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Enhancing inclusivity and representation: Accessible design of the GP Patient Survey | City St George's, University of London In this survey methods webinar, Victoria Elsey, Molly Dawson and Katherine Fisher (Ipsos) will discuss measures to improve accessibility within the National Health Service's GP Patient Survey design.

Register to attend a #webinar taking place from 12-1pm (GMT) on Tuesday 2 December on enhancing representation amongst #survey respondents.

Victoria Elsey, Molly Dawson and Katherine Fisher (@ipsosintheuk.bsky.social 🇬🇧) will discuss how they adapted the GP Patient Survey.

Between two minds: the influence of numerical labels on survey responses in a cross-national study - Quality & Quantity Previous research highlights the impact of nonverbal cues and visual layouts on respondents’ interpretations and answers to survey questions.

New research published by Quality & Quantity (@springernature.com) assessed the effects of two 11- point answer scales.

The study investigated #data from respondents during Round 8 (2016/17) of our #survey who were randomly assigned scales ranging from 0 to 10 and from − 5 to + 5.

Cómo hemos cambiado en los últimos 50 años España ha cambiado en 50 años: valores, emociones, confianza y relaciones. Las encuestas revelan una profunda transformación psicológica que define cómo pensamos, sentimos y vivimos hoy.

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Opinions about: "Perceived Government Responsibility for Reducing Climate Change". The latest CRONOS 3 Wave 1 data are available for 11 European countries (www.europeansocialsurvey.org).

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City-level environmental data now available | European Social Survey The European Social Survey (ESS) has released panel survey data measuring environmental attitudes amongst respondents in Munich and Paris.

We have published panel survey #data measuring environmental attitudes amongst respondents in Munich 🇩🇪 and Paris 🇫🇷 in 2023 and 2024.

The probability-based online #survey covered #climate and green policies, transport, greenhouse gas emissions, energy, and other environmental behaviours.

Evaluating the Feasibility of Using ChatGPT for Cross-cultural Survey Translation Danielly Sorato, Diana Zavala-Rojas. Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2025): Long and Short Papers. 2025.

#Research that investigated the feasibility of using ChatGPT for cross-cultural #survey translation was recently published.

Danielly Sorato and Diana Zavala-Rojas (@recsm.bsky.social 🇪🇸) compared translations using GPT-4o mini with ones produced by humans in an experimental setting.

Round 13 Survey Specification published | European Social Survey The European Social Survey (ESS) has released the specification for countries taking part in Round 13 of the survey, due to be fielded from September 2027 until May 2028.

We have released the specification for countries taking part in Round 13 of our #survey, due to be fielded from September 2027 until May 2028.

Round 13 (2027/28) will be the first round of the ESS where all #data will be collected from respondents using self-completion modes.

Opinions about: "To what extent do you feel a personal responsibility to try to reduce climate change". The latest CRONOS 3 Wave 1 data are available for 11 European countries.
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Webinar: Bridging the gap: How to connect social research with the public and policymakers | Infra4NextGen This webinar will explore how insights from social research can better reach and benefit both the public and policymakers.

An Infra4NextGen #webinar being held from 11am-12.30pm (CET) next Tuesday (18 November) will focus on promoting #research amongst non-academic audiences.

The session will provide advice and practical ways to communicate findings to #policy makers and the general public.

Make it Strong: New report on European resilience | Infra4NextGen A new report published by the Infra4NextGen project today (Thursday 6 November) explores attitudes towards education, employment, family life, intergenerational solidarity and democracy. The data…

Analysis of #data measuring attitudes towards education, employment, family life, intergenerational solidarity and democracy has been conducted for a new report.

The report examined data from our survey, the @ggp.bsky.social and @isspsurvey.bsky.social to compare attitudes by age.

Marek Muszyński (Polish Academy of Sciences) and Piotr Jabkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University) delivered a webinar about data collected in different modes on Wednesday 5 November. Comparing response behaviours between face-to-face and self-completion modes

A recording of our #webinar on comparing #survey responses in different modes is now available.

The findings indicate that respondents in self-completion modes exhibit more non-differentiation and fewer acquiescent and midpoint responses than in face-to-face modes.

Enhancing inclusivity and representation: Accessible design of the GP Patient Survey | City St George's, University of London In this survey methods webinar, Victoria Elsey, Molly Dawson and Katherine Fisher (Ipsos) will discuss measures to improve accessibility within the National Health Service's GP Patient Survey design.

A webinar at 12-1pm (GMT) on Tuesday 2 December will focus on enhancing representation in the GP Patient Survey in the UK 🇬🇧.

Victoria Elsey, Molly Dawson and Katherine Fisher (@ipsosintheuk.bsky.social) will discuss adapting the #survey to help increase representativeness.

Webinar: Bridging the Gap - How to connect social research with the public and policymakers. Nov18th, 2025 at 11:00 to 12:30. Register via infra4nextgen.com

One week to go until the next #Infra4NextGen webinar on connecting #socialscience #research with the public and policymakers! With Dr. Ruxandra Comanaru for @ess-survey.bsky.social and Dr. Yuliya Kazakova for @ggp.bsky.social 📊

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