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Cross-national Survey Data Harmonization

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This Special Issue is devoted to methodological advances in ex-post output harmonization of cross-national survey data and their application to substantive research. To examine how attitudes and behaviors of individuals and social groups relate to features of the contexts we live in, calls for data with sufficiently large number of observations and substantial differentiation between country characteristics. Yet, single international survey projects, even purportedly world-wide ones like the World Value Survey and the International Social Survey Program, have coverage shortcomings: back in the 1980s, they included mostly Western Europe and North America, and even nowadays, historically marginalized countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East are underrepresented. At the same time, they generally target a country’s general population, which can raise small sample size issues when research interest pertains to specific sub-populations.

The five papers of this Special Issue present both the potential and the challenges in ex-post harmonization of cross-national survey data, as they provide insights into innovative harmonization methods and their application to substantive cross-national research.

Editors

  • Ilona Wysmulek Ilona Wysmulek , 

    Ilona Wysmulek

    Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii, Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warsaw, Poland.

  • Irina Tomescu-Dubrow Irina Tomescu-Dubrow  &

    Irina Tomescu-Dubrow

    Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Warsaw, Poland Irina Tomescu-Dubrow is a professor of sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology and manages the Cross-national Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training program of The Ohio State University and PAN. She conducts methodological research, including on ex-post survey data harmonization, and studies social transformations. Irina is co-PI of a large harmonization project (NSF award 1738502, asc.ohio-state.edu/dataharmonization) and of the 2018 Polish Panel Survey POLPAN (polpan.org).

  • Joonghyun Kwak Joonghyun Kwak

    Joonghyun Kwak

    Oxford University, UK Joonghyun Kwak is a postdoctoral researcher in quantitative social science for the project International Student Mobility and World Development. Joonghyun is a quantitatively oriented, comparative sociologist with a focus on globalisation, international migration, social and educational inequality and survey research methods. Through his research, he strives to contribute to a deeper understanding of how structural and policy changes in the global economy shape social institutions and individual behaviours and attitudes.

Articles (6 in this collection)