Research on small towns requires appropriate data and methods. This article provides an overview of the data situation … and range of methods in small town research. The first section discusses the difficulty of finding clear definitions of … methods that are primarily used in small town research are presented and set in context. Then in the third section available …

evolution of the methods and data developments in the RTA literature, from Tinbergen's very first exploration until today, and … past 60 years, there have been many important developments in the RTA literature, both in terms of better methods to … quantify their effects, and also in terms of more and higher quality data. The objective of this paper is to trace the …

exploited more sufficiently. In addition to its unique approach, the empiri-cal data underlying this research presents a novelty …

economic sub-projects.The investigations and data collections intertwine and complement one another. Thus themethodological … additional local villages. Further we extend the data collections on the regional level with household, village and trader …-governmental experts. The applied methods are composed of qualitative and quantitative empirical studies. …

-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). It includes a short review on available data sources and recent evidence on inequalities in life … the data are discussed. The main problem regarding the goal of providing undistorted estimates for the life expectancy of … allows to overcome this problem by using data of the official life tables for Germany …