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19 kwi 2016 · We provide a critical introduction to the main approaches to measuring education in social survey research, which include measuring years of education, using categorical qualification based measures and scaling approaches.
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5 kwi 2021 · All social science (and many other) surveys measure respondents’ educational attainment. However, most of them do it in different ways, resulting in incoherent education variables across...
Educational attainment frequently serves as an important substantive or control variable in statistical analyses for the following reasons: First, educational attainment is used to proxy ‘human capital’, i.e. the individuals’ level of knowledge, skills and competences.
5 kwi 2021 · All social science (and many other) surveys measure respondents’ educational attainment. However, most of them do it in different ways, resulting in incoherent education variables across surveys. This complicates the cumulation of different datasets and hampers survey data reuse.
There are three basic approaches for output-harmonizing information on educational attain-ment: levels of education, scaled levels of education, and years of education. They will be briey presented here.
14 cze 2018 · In this chapter, we list and briefly define the sociodemographic background variables required in social surveys. We then provide a step-by-step description of the harmonization process for the core sociodemographic variables private household, education, labor force measures, total net household income, and ethnicity.
19 gru 2023 · This paper presents a reliable tool for measuring transformative learning in undergraduate social work education, the Social Work Transformation Survey (SWTS). The SWTS was developed from a qualitative theoretical model and translated into quantitative scales.
