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The Measurement of Community Social Capital Through Surveys

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This chapter is about quantitative surveys of social capital within general community-based health surveys. It assumes that the investigation of social capital is only part of a larger survey that includes, at the least, additional questions on health-related outcomes, attitudes or behaviour. It therefore focuses on key issues that should be addressed when designing social capital measures but acknowledges that such measures need to be limited in order to be kept in proportion to the overall survey. It aims for a minimalist but theoretically strong approach.

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  • Social Capital
  • Collective Efficacy
  • European Social Survey
  • Informal Social Control
  • Community Social Capital

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  1. London South Bank University, London, U.K.

    Trudy Harpham PhD

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  1. Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge Buliding, 7th Floor 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian & Daniel Kim,  & 

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Harpham, T. (2008). The Measurement of Community Social Capital Through Surveys. In: Kawachi, I., Subramanian, S., Kim, D. (eds) Social Capital and Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71311-3_3

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