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SDR Project

Publications 

Two issues of the bi-annual Harmonization: Newsletter on Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences Fall 2017 to Present.

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow. 2018. “Basic Principles of Survey Data Recycling.” Ch. 43; p. 937-962 in Advances in Comparative Survey Methodology: Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts (3MC), T.P. Johnson, B-E Pennell, I. A. L. Stoop, & B. Dorer (eds), Wiley Hoboken, New Jersey

Kołczyńska, Marta, & Schoene, Matthew. 2018. “Survey Data Harmonization and the Quality of Data Documentation in Cross-national Surveys.” In T. P. Johnson, B.-E. Pennell, I. Stoop, & B. Dorer (Eds.), Advances in Comparative Survey Methodology: Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts (3MC) (pp. 963–984). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Oleksiyenko, Olena, Wysmulek, Ilona & Vangeli, Anastas. 2018. “Identification of Processing Errors in Cross‐national Surveys.” In Johnson, T.P, Pennell, B.-E., Stoop, I.A., & Dorer, B. (Eds.), Advances in Comparative Survey Methodology: Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts (3MC) (pp. 985–1010). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Kołczyńska, Marta and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 2018. “Item Metadata as Controls for ex post Harmonization of International Survey Projects.” Pp. 1011–33 in Advances in Comparative Survey Methodology: Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts (3MC), edited by T. P. Johnson, B.-E. Pennell, I. A. L. Stoop, and B. Dorer. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Zieliński, Marcin. W., Powałko, Przemek., and Kołczyńska, Marta. 2018. “The Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Weights in International Survey Projects: Implications for Survey Data Harmonization.” Advances in Comparative Survey Methodology: Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts (3MC), 1035–1052.

SDR Project

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Christof Wolf, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, J. Craig Jenkins. 2019. “Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Approach. ” presented at the SDR & POLINQ Conference Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

SDR Team. 2019. “Survey Data Recycling as an Analytic Framework for Survey Data Reprocessing. Part 1: Introduction and Theoretical Overview.” Presentation prepared by Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski for the SDR & POLINQ Conference Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

SDR Team. 2019. “Survey Data Recycling as an Analytic Framework for Survey Data Reprocessing. Part 1: Detection of duplicates in the Survey Data Recycling project” Presentation prepared by Przemek Powałko for the SDR Workshop Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

SDR Team. 2019. “Survey Data Recycling as an Analytic Framework for Survey Data Reprocessing. Part 1: Survey Weights” Presentation prepared by Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski and Marcin Zielinski for the SDR Workshop Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

SDR Team. 2019. “Survey Data Recycling as an Analytic Framework for Survey Data Reprocessing. Part 2.” Presentation prepared by Kazimierz M. Slomczynski and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow for the SDR Workshop Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

SDR Team. 2019. “From Source to Target: Harmonization Workflow, Procedures and Tools. Introduction and Part 1. Cotton File and Detailed Variable Report“. Presentation prepared by Ilona Wysmułek for the SDR Workshop Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

SDR Team. 2019. “From Source to Target: Harmonization Workflow, Procedures and Tools. Part 2. Control Variables and Cross-Walk Tables (CWT)“. Presentation prepared by Nika Palaguta for the SDR Workshop Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

SDR Team. 2019. “From Source to Target: Harmonization Workflow, Procedures and Tools. Part 3: Quality Check and General Variable Report“. Presentation prepared by Weronika Boruc for the SDR Workshop Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

SDR Team. 2019. “Concluding remarks: Harmonization Workflow, Procedures and Tool“. Presentation prepared by Ilona Wysmułek, Nika Palaguta and Weronika Boruc for the SDR Workshop Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

SDR Team. 2019. “Data Flow and Database Structure in the SDR Project“. Presentation prepared by Przemek Powałko for the SDR Conference Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

Joonghyun Kwak and Kazimierz M. Słomczyński. 2019. “Aggregating Survey Data on the National Level for Indexing Trust in Public Institutions” presented at the SDR Workshop Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

J. Craig Jenkins and Joonghyun Kwak. 2019. “Measuring Participation in Demonstrations with Cross-national Survey and Protest Event Data” presented at the SDR Workshop Building Multi-Source Databases for Comparative Analyses, Warsaw, Poland, December 16-20.

SDR Team 2019. “Approaches to Ex-post Harmonization of Rating Scales in the Survey Data Recycling Framework”  presentation prepared by Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Ilona Wysmulek for the Gesis conference “Ex-post Harmonization of Rating Scales in National and International Surveys”, Mannheim, Germany, May 9-11.

Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina and Peter Granda. 2019. “Survey Documentation in 3MC Surveys.” Comparative Survey Design and Implementation Workshop, March 18 –20, 2019, Warsaw, Poland.

Ilona Wysmulek, Nika Palaguta, Weronika Boruc, Marta Kolczynska, Przemek Powalko and Denys Lavryk. 2018. “Challenges of Data Harmonization from over 3500 National Surveys Worldwide: SDR Project 2.0“ [abstract in English]  paper presented at the conference “Methodological Inspirations 2018: Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences”, Jablonna, Poland, September 24-26.

Ilona Wysmulek. 2018. “Comparability of Single-variable Indicators: The Case of Corruption Items” paper presented at the III Midterm Conference of the ESA RN 21, Kraków, Poland, 3-6 October.

Ilona Wysmulek. 2018. “Applying Survey Data Harmonization in Corruption Research” paper presented at the GESIS Survey Design and Methodology guest seminar, Mannheim, Germany, March 14.

Marta Kołczyńska, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Kazimierz M. Słomczyński. 2018. “Comparing Two Measures of Education Harmonized Ex Post: Levels of Education and Years of Schooling.” Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI) Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, March 26-28.

Marta Kołczyńska. 2018. “Sampling Schemes and Survey Quality in Cross-national Surveys.” Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI) Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, March 26-28.

Ilona Wysmułek. 2018. “Inter-survey Variability of Corruption Measures: Implications of Harmonization Procedures” Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI) Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, March 26-28.

NCN Harmonization Project 

Publications 

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., Przemek Powalko and Tadeusz Krauze. 2017. “Non-unique Records in International Survey Projects: The Need for Extending Data Quality Control.” Survey Research Methods 11(1): 1-16.

Słomczyński, Kazimierz M., Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, J. Craig Jenkins, with Marta Kołczyńska, Przemek Powałko, Ilona Wysmułek, Olena Oleksiyenko, Marcin W. Zieliński and Joshua K. Dubrow. 2016. Democratic Values and Protest Behavior. Harmonization of Data from International Survey Projects. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers. (full text)

Dubrow, Joshua K. and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow. 2016. “The rise of cross-national survey data harmonization in the social sciences: emergence of an interdisciplinary methodological field.” Quality and Quantity 50(4): 1449–1467.

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 2016. “Harmonization of Cross-National Survey Projects on Political Behavior: Developing the Analytic Framework of Survey Data Recycling.” International Journal of Sociology. Special Issue: Political Behavior and Big Data 46(1): 58-72.

Przemek Powałko and Marta Kołczyńska. 2016. “Working with Data in the Cross-National Survey Harmonization Project: Outline of Programming Decisions.” International Journal of Sociology. Special Issue: Political Behavior and Big Data 46(1): 73-80.

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M., Przemek Powalko and Tadeusz Krauze. 2015. “The Large Number of Duplicate Records in International Survey Projects: The Need for Data Quality Control.” CONSIRT Working Papers Series 8 (CONSIRT Labs: Methodology of Survey Data Harmonization) at consirt.osu.edu.  For the full set of documents related to this paper, see dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/duprecords.

Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina, and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 2014. “Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling in Cross-National Perspective.” Ask: Research and Methods 23(1): 103-114.

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow. 2014. “A History of Cross-national Survey Data Harmonization Projects in the Social Sciences: Emergence of an Interdisciplinary Methodological Field.” CONSIRT Working Papers Series 1 (CONSIRT Labs: Methodology of Survey Data Harmonization) at consirt.osu.edu.

Powałko, Przemek. 2014. “Working with Big Data: Experiences with the Cross-national Survey Data Harmonization Project.” CONSIRT Working Papers Series 2 (CONSIRT Labs: Methodology of Survey Data Harmonization) at consirt.osu.edu.

Schoene, Matthew and Marta Kolczynska. 2014. “Survey Data Harmonization and the Quality of Data Documentation in Cross-National Surveys.” CONSIRT Working Papers Series 3 (CONSIRT Labs: Methodology of Survey Data Harmonization) at consirt.osu.edu.

More information on the CONSIRT Working Papers Series can be found here.

NCN Harmonization Project

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 2017. “Quality Controls and Their Application to Substantive Analyses of Data from International Survey Projects.” 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Lisbon, Portugal, July 17-21.

Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Marta Kołczyńska, Joshua K. Dubrow, and J. Craig Jenkins. 2017. “Harmonizing cross-national survey data on protest behavior.” Conference and Workshop Democracy, the State and Protest: International Perspectives on Methods for the Study of Protest, Columbus, Ohio, May 11-12.

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski. 2017. “Representation of European Countries in International Survey Projects: ESS in Comparative Perspective.” 1st European Social Survey (ESS) Visegrad Regional Network Meeting, Prague, Czechia, March 21-22.

Ilona Wysmułek. 2017. “Applying ex-post harmonization of cross-national survey data in corruption research.” CSDI Workshop. Mannheim, Germany, March 16-18.

Olena Oleksiyenko. 2017. “Harmonization of the minority status. Case of the Russian-speaking minority in the former Soviet states.” CSDI Workshop. Mannheim, Germany, March 16-18.

Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, and Marta Kołczyńska. 2017. “Item-level Controls for Ex-post Harmonization of Cross-national Survey Data: Theoretical Arguments and Empirical Illustration.” CSDI Workshop. Mannheim, Germany, March 16-18.

Session “Harmonization, Data Documentation and Dissemination” at the Second International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts (3MC 2016), Chicago, IL, July 25-29, 2016; chaired by Peter Granda, University of Michigan.

Ilona Wysmułek, Olena Oleksiyenko, Przemek Powałko, Marta Kołczyńska, Marcin W. Zieliński, Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow. 2016. “Linking National Surveys, Administrative Records and Mass Media Content: Methodological Issues of Constructing the Harmonized Data-File.” 3rd ISA Forum on Sociology in Vienna, Austria, July 10-16.

Marta Kołczyńska and Kazimierz M. Słomczyński. 2015. “The Total Survey Error Framework and Survey-Quality Controls in the Data Harmonization Process.” 2015 Total International Survey Error Conference, Baltimore, MD, September 19-22.

Ilona Wysmulek and Olena Oleksiyenko. 2015. “Processing Errors in the Cross-national Surveys.” 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 13-17.

Olena Oleksiyenko, Kazimierz Slomczynski, and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow. 2015. “Harmonizing Large International Projects on Public Opinion: Challenges in Preparing Data for Quantitative Analysis.” 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 13-17.

Przemek Powałko. 2015. “Duplicates in Social-Science Surveys,. 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 13-17.

Session “Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling.” Thirteenth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation, London, UK, March 26-28, 2015; chaired by Peter Granda, University of Michigan.

Harmonization Project Workshop III: Weights, Quality, Modelling (2015)

Day 1 Session I Introduction Slomczynski Tomescu-Dubrow
Day 1 Session II Intro to weights Slomczynski
Day 1 Session II Weighting 1 Zielinski
Day 2 Session I Weighting 2 Zielinski
Day 2 Session II Weighting in cross-national projects Zielinski
Day 3 Session I Assessment of survey quality – overview Tomescu-Dubrow & Slomczynski
Day 3 Session II Documentation quality Kolczynska Schoene
Day 4 Session I Data documentation discrepancies Wysmulek Oleksiyenko
Day 4 Session II Errors in Survey Data Powalko
Day 5 Session I Introduction to Multilevel Linear Modeling Kunovich
Day 5 Session II Logistic regression Kunovich

Marta Kołczyńska and Kazimierz M. Słomczyński. 2014. “Ex-Post Harmonization of Trust in Parliament in 22 Survey Projects: Challenges for Equivalent Scaling.”  ESA RN21/EQMC Conference Modes, Measurement, Modelling: Achieving Equivalence in Quantitative Research, Mannheim, Germany, October 24-25.

Kazimierz M. Słomczyński, Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Marta Kolczynska, Przemysław Powalko, Olena Oleksiyenko, and Ilona Wysmułek. 2014. „Challenges in Harmonizing Large International Projects on Public Opinion: On a New Approach to Data-Quality Control.” ESA RN21 / EQMC Conference Modes, Measurement, Modelling: Achieving Equivalence in Quantitative Research, Mannheim, Germany, October 24-25.

Kazimierz M. Słomczyński, Marta Kołczyńska, Olena Oleksiyenko, Przemek Powałko, Matthew Schoene, Ilona Wysmułek, and Marcin Zieliński. 2014. “Challenges in Harmonizing Large International Projects on Public Opinion: New Approach to Data Quality Control.” Metodologiczne inspiracje – Badania Ilościowe w Naukach Społecznych –  Wyzwania i Problemy, Jabłonna, Poland, September 24-26.

Matthew Schoene and Marta Kołczyńska. 2014. “Survey Data Harmonization: The Issue of Data and Documentation Quality in Cross-National Surveys.” 67th Annual Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Nice, France, 4-6 September.

Harmonization Project Conference and Workshop I: Harmonization (2013)

Invited Lecture: prof. J. Craig Jenkins. Harmonizing Survey and Event Data Measures of Protest? text / presentation

Presentation: Katarzyna Andrejuk. Surveys in the Harmonia Project
Presentation: Przemek Powałko.The Organization and Processing of Data in the HARMONIA Project
Presentation: Matthew Schoene, Marta Kołczyńska. Survey Data Quality
Presentation: Olena Oleksiyenko, Ilona Wysmułek and Katarzyna Andrejuk. Discussion of Source Variables in the Harmonia Project
Presentation: Ilona Wysmuek. Discussion of Contextual Variables in the Harmonia Project

Matthew Schoene and Marta Kołczyńska. 2013. “Survey Data Harmonization: The Issue of Data and Documentation Quality in Cross-National Surveys.” Conference and Workshop on Data Harmonization, Warsaw, Poland, December 20.

Marta Kołczyńska. 2013. “Survey Data Harmonization in Cross-National Research. Democracy and Trust in Europe.” London Centre for Social Studies PhD Conference Methodological Choices and Challenges, London, UK, April 19.