Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course

Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course

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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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Oris, Michel (Editor), Roberts, Caroline (Editor), Joye, Dominique (Editor), Ernst Stähli, Michèle (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Life Course Research and Social Policies, 3
Subjects:
Sociology.
Sociology > Methodology.
Psychology > Methodology.
Quality of life.
Sociological Methods.
Psychological Methods.
Quality of Life Research.
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Summary: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 across the life course. Coverage first provides an introduction on studying vulnerabilities based on the Total Error Survey framework. Next, the authors present concrete examples on how to survey such populations as the elderly, migrants, widows and widowers, couples facing breast cancer, employees and job seekers, displaced workers, and teenagers during their transition to adulthood. In addition, one essay discusses the rationale for the use of life history calendars in studying social and psychological vulnerability while another records the difficulty the authors faced when trying to set-up an online social network to collect relevant data. Overall, this book demonstrates the importance to have, from the very beginning, a dialogue between specialists of survey methods and the researchers working on social dynamics across the life span. It will serve as an indispensable resource for social scientists interested in gathering and analyzing data on vulnerable individuals and populations in order to construct longitudinal data bases and properly target social policies.
Physical Description:VI, 244 p. 23 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9783319241579
ISSN:2211-7784 ;
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-24157-9
Access:Open Access

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