Social scientists have long virtually ignored the biological constraints of human behavior. Yet if the prediction of behavior is considered essential to a social science, neglecting any variable that might influence human behavior is unacceptable. This paper provides examples of important...

Der "Schnell" behandelt Techniken zur graphischen Darstellung von Daten oder statistischer Größe im Rahmen von Datenanalysen. Diese "Datenanalysegraphik" ist ein nützliches Instrument für Datenanalytiker, hier wiederum bevorzugt solche in den Sozialwissenschaften

The results of a national fear of crime survey are compared with results following the use of different nonresponse correction procedures. We compared naive estimates, weighted estimates, estimates after a thorough nonresponse follow-up and estimates after multiple imputation. A strong...

Social scientists have ignored biological constraints of human behavior for a long time almost completely. If prediction of behavior is considered as essential for a social science. The neglect of any variable, which might influence human behavior, is hardly justified. Therefore, this paper...

TRecord linkage is used for preparing sampling frames, deduplication of lists and combining information on the same object from two different databases. If the identifiers of the same objects in two different databases have error free unique common identifiers like personal identification...

Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die verfügbaren Datenquellen zur Erwerbsbeteiligung behinderte Menschen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Neben bisher in der Literatur verwendeten Erhebungen werden andere Datenquellen sowie zahlreiche mögliche Auswahlgrundlagen diskutiert. Dazu...

All of the sampling plans currently in use for general population surveys in Germany suffer from methodological and practical problems. A new sampling plan is thus urgently needed: one with a low cost overhead that can be prepared in a very short time. Germany also lacks a sampling plan covering...