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Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI) : an expansion of survey data collection methods to the virtual worlds by means of VDCI

Bell, Mark W.; Castronova, Edward; Wagner, Gert G. - 2009

Changes in communication technology have allowed for the expansion of data collection modes in survey research. The proliferation of the computer has allowed the creation of web and computer assisted auto-interview data collection modes. Virtual worlds are a new application of computer...

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Surveying the virtual world : a large scale survey in second life using the Virtual Data Collection Interface (VDCI)

Bell, Mark W.; Castronova, Edward; Wagner, Gert G. - 2009

Technology has always introduced changes in the way researchers administer surveys. A new technology known as virtual worlds has now emerged that promises to change data collection once again. Virtual worlds are persistent, online, computer-rendered spaces populated by hundreds, thousands, or...

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Reform of the public pension system in Germany

Konrad, Kai A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

effectively. In Germany, as in other European countries, child care subsidies are mainly provided "in-kind". Local communities and … the distributional effects of state funded child day care in Germany using microdata of households and data on the … bedürfen. Wie in einigen anderen europäischen Staaten werden auch in Deutschland bestimmte Anbieter von …

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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from … eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German …. About one half of the immigrants who entered Germany since 1984 are ethnic Germans. Thus, any analysis of the living …

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The dynamics of child poverty : Britain and Germany compared

Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000 - Revised November 2000

We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty …Wir vergleichen die Muster der Armutsdynamik bei Kindern in Großbritannien und Deutschland anhand der Daten der British …

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Autonomous organization of the (international) scientific community would simplify data protection in the social sciences and encourage reanalysis

Wagner, Gert G. - 2001

The re-analysis of statistical data is an effective means of protecting the public from undiscovered errors in social science research. Re-analysis is critical, as there is no difference between official data and non-official data. However, discussions concerning data protection legislation do...

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Maintenance of and innovation in long-term panel studies : the case of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)

Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2002

The availability of panel data on the basis of micro data has become an indispensable component of the infrastructure of empirically oriented social scientists and economists. This is also a consequence of the fact that, for a panel survey, the quality of both content and methodological analyses...

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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2002

the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey …

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Identification, characteristics and impact of faked interviews in surveys : an analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Wagner, Gert G. - 2003

To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on "artificial fakes" generated by project students in a "laboratory environment". In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data...

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