Tag: survey

• September 6, 2015

  “An individual’s level of personal well-being is strongly related to the level of wealth of the household in which they live”

  “Relationship between Wealth, Income and Personal Well-being, July 2011 to June 2012” Summary This article uses data from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) for July 2011 to June 2012 which, for the first time, included measures of personal well-being. It describes the results of regression analysis considering the relationships between the total wealth or…

• August 3, 2014

  World Values Survey International Open Seminar

      The “World Values ​​Survey International Open Seminar” will be held at the University of Almería on the 24th and 25th of November 2014. This conference is organized by the Department of Sociology and marks the release of the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org). The conference will feature published papers and…

• January 28, 2014

  Example of urban mapping research project

  Title: Mapping social diversity Phase one involved demographic mapping which would inform the survey in phase two, and then in-depth interviews as part of Project B. Using census data (UK 2001, Poland 2002), the residential distribution of people in terms of demographic characteristics was mapped in two cities: Leeds (UK) and Warsaw (Poland). Variables were…

• November 20, 2012

  Are you “resources” or “feeling” researcher? #understandingresearchphilosophies

  As researcher you are creating new knowledge. But, what is or not knowledge for you? Two main views may be adopted. (1) The researcher who concerns on numbers and countable elements: “resources” researcher (2) The researcher who concerns more with the feelings and attitudes of the people involved in the organization studied: “feeling” researcher 1.…