Tag: Cross-national comparison

• June 7, 2016

  Green gentrification in Barcelona: is it fair the disbribution of access to urban natural spaces?

  Rosa M. Bosch writes this interesting article (in Spanish) in La Vanguardia on “green gentrification” in Barcelona. The sociologist and geographer Dr. Isabelle Anguelovski has analyzed how has changed the socioeconomic profile of people living near gardens and parks created in Barcelona between 1992 and 2000. The study suggests that the new areas have attracted…

• March 31, 2016

  Health and happiness: cross-sectional household surveys in Finland, Poland and Spain

  Abstract Objective To explore the associations between health and how people evaluate and experience their lives. Methods We analysed data from nationally-representative household surveys originally conducted in 2011–2012 in Finland, Poland and Spain. These surveys provided information on 10 800 adults, for whom experienced well-being was measured using the Day Reconstruction Method and evaluative well-being was…

• April 24, 2014

  Public Data Google, another useful secondary data source for cross-national comparisons

    I have recently posted several interesting sources of secondary data for cross-national research. Each one with one or another strength. For instance, I found Trading Economics very useful to compare nations all over the world and by mean innumerable economic indicators. Another source, the Eurostat´s Regional Statistics Illustrate, although the data are limited to Europe, it stands…

• April 18, 2014

  European regional Statistics Illustrated

  Today I stumbled across this sophisticate Eurostat tool that allow map social and economic data by European regions. It is similar to the one I commented in an earlier post, also from Eurostat. But what I like most here is the possibility to visualize data in a variety of charts such as distribution plot, scatter plot, bar chart or…

• April 17, 2014

  Outstanding website with 300.000 economic indicators for 196 countries

  I found something very interesting when looking for secondary dat on Poland GDP growth rate. It is an outstanding tool to compare economic indicators by countries. They offer, among other things, the exportation of data into excel as well as represent it in maps. Further details here

• April 16, 2014

  Statistical Atlas – Eurostat regional yearbook 2013

  Commodious, utilitarian and valid tool for secondary data based and European cross-national research. Relevant information on economy and finance; population and social conditions; industry, trade and services; agriculture and fisheries; transport; science and technology; among others. Source: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistical-atlas/gis/viewer/