In den vergangenen 30 Jahren haben mehrere Industrienationen zunehmend in Entwicklung, Aufbau und Durchführung von sozialwissenschaftlichen Haushalts- und Personenbefragungen investiert, wobei Längsschnitt- und Panelstudien eine besondere Rolle zukommt. In vielen Fällen von der Wissenschaft...

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may...

Üblicherweise werden Unsicherheiten bei Bevölkerungsprognosen mit Hilfe der Szenarientechnik abgebildet. Unter Annahme von begründeten Szenarienparametern, die eine gewisse Bandbreite von zukünftig zu erwartenden demographischen Raten (Geburten- und Sterberaten, Nettomigration) abdecken,...

Ageing is one of the greatest social and economic challenges of the 21st century in Europe. SHARE, a EU-sponsored project that will build up a Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe, will be a fundamental resource for science and public policy to help mastering this unprecedented...

Üblicherweise werden Unsicherheiten bei Bevölkerungsprognosen mit Hilfe der Szenarientechnik abgebildet. Unter Annahme von begründeten Szenarienparametern, die eine gewisse Bandbreite von zukünftig zu erwartenden demographischen Raten (Geburten- und Sterberaten, Nettomigration) abdecken,...

Ageing is one of the greatest social and economic challenges of the 21st century in Europe. SHARE, a EU-sponsored project that will build up a Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe, will be a fundamental resource for science and public policy to help mastering this unprecedented...

This contribution builds upon a former paper by the authors (Lipps and Betz 2004), in which a stochastic population projection for East- and West Germany is performed. Aim was to forecast relevant population parameters and their distribution in a consistent way. We now present some...

Structural and behavioural factors drive the growth and change of spatial mobility in the industrialised countries: on the macro level we have observed tremendous increases in travel demand as measured by person miles travelled. This paper studies this development of mobility of tripmaking adult...

Attrition is mostly caused by not contacted or refusing sample members. On one hand it is well-known that reasons to attrite due to non-contact are different from those that are due to refusal. On the other hand does non-contact most probably affect household attrition, while refusal can be...