Census and Society: why everyone counts
2011 has been the year of the population survey. The UK saw its most detailed census to date. Understanding Society, a huge panel survey encompassing 40,000 households, published its first findings. In...
View ArticleSpeech by UK universities minister on longitudinal studies and social mobility
In a speech this week in London – against a backdrop of students protesting noisily about government cuts to higher education – the UK Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, focused on...
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The New National Service for Social and Economic Data
This year’s British Sociological Association annual conference saw countless presentations from all over the country, many of which were based on secondary data, many of which are preserved and...
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Can’t Keep a Good Survey Down: Add Health
From top left, clockwise: Kathleen Mullan Harris, Richard Udry, Barbara Entwisle, Ronald R. Rindfuss, and Peter Bearman Consider the Venn diagram for ‘teens,’ ‘sex’ and ‘government.’ The nexus of the...
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Does Having Healthy Self-Esteem Lead to a More Successful Career?
Every day there are many factors that affect work productivity. Stress and exhaustion, for example, have understandably negative effects, however what type of effect does self-esteem have? Farah Kuster...
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Can Encouragement from Parents Impact Children’s Interests in Math?
In 2009, President Obama launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign, which called for a nationwide push to motivate students to reach a higher level of success in science, technology, engineering and...
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The Benefits of Establishing Causal Order in Longitudinal Studies
[We are pleased to welcome Gerhard Kling of University of London. Gerhard recently published an article in Organizational Research Methods, entitled “Establishing Causal Order in Longitudinal Studies...
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