Introduction to MaxQDA for Case Studies

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Heiko Grunenberg (Leuphana University Lüneburg)

Date:

06.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents:

This workshop is directly affiliated to the course “Case Study Research”. We want to see, how the ideas and approaches of “Case Study Research” could be transacted with a software of qualitative research like MAXqda.

It is not necessary to have deep knowledge about MAXqda, but please have a look at http://www.maxqda.com to understand the basic steps of computer assisted qualitative research.

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Qualitative Inquiry and Content Analysis with MAXQDA

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Heiko Grunenberg (Leuphana University Lüneburg)

Date:

06.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30
07.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents:

MAXqda is a software to analyze textual data in a qualitative (but also quantitative) way. The course provides a basic introduction into the logic of the program and its broad possibilities. The goal is to enable you to use this tool accordingly to your own method of analysis. For this reason, everybody can practice our working-steps at an own Computer. We will start at the very beginning and learn about the basic features of the program such as preparation and import of texts, basic analysis strategies and creation of codes, memos and variables. After this, we will focus on analysis strategies, simple and complex text retrievals. At the end, we will take a short excursion into the quantitative content analysis of counting and numbers.

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Data Analysis with Stata (Beginners)

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Tobias Gramlich (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Date:

03.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30
04.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30
06.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30
07.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents:

Stata is a statistical program package widely used (not only) in the social and economical sciences; it is used for data management, statistical graphics and analysis of quantitative data. Statistical concepts will not be part of the course, so participants should have some very basic knowledge of statistics. The course should enable participants to prepare their data for analysis, perform adequate analysis using a statistical computer program and to document these tasks to keep them reproducible.

For Beginners with No or Very Little Knowledge of the Program!

Course Topics cover:

  • “What You Type is What You Get”: Basic stata Command syntax
  • Getting (and Understanding) Help within stata: stata Bulit-in Help System
  • Basic Data Management: Load and Save stata Datasets, Generate and Manipulate Variables, Describe and Label Data and Variables, Perform Basic uni- and bivariate Analyses, Change the Structure of your Data
  • Basic stata Graphics: Scatterplot, Histogram, Bar Chart
  • Working with “Do-” and “Log-” Files

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

(Multi-Value) Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Lasse Cronqvist (University of Trier)

Date:

03.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30
04.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30
06.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 24

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: German

Contents:

Configurational Comparative Methods (CCM) are increasingly in social science research. The workshop will introduce to these methods mainly on focusing on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). We will first introduce the conceptional basics of QCA and then looking at different refinements. Various applications of CCM will be studied and the software used for QCA will be introduced. Finally, current developments in CCM research are briefly presented.

The software introduced in this course is only available for Windows OS:
Tool for Small-N Analysis – Tosmana – http://www.tosmana.net/

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Introduction to the SOEP

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Elke Holst (SOEP at DIW) and Anne Busch (Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) & SOEP at DIW)

Date:

03.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30
04.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 25

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents:

The Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is a longitudinal study of private households in Germany. The panel provides information on all household members and was started in 1984. In 2009, there were almost 12,000 households, and more than 20,000 persons sampled. Some of the many topics include household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health, well being, integration, values, lifestyles, and personality. The course gives an overview of the data structure and the research designs facilitated by longitudinal household studies that go beyond conventional surveys (household analysis, intergenerational analysis, life course research, etc.). In hands-on sessions using Stata, the course provides an applied introduction into the data retrieval, the construction of longitudinal data files, and illustrates some exemplary analyses.

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Teaching Skills: The Adequate Implementation of Activating Methods in Seminar Sessions

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Verena Brenner (Self-Employed Trainer) & Tatjana Reiber (HSU Hamburg)

Date: 05.10.2011, 09:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: German

Contents:

Although independence and personal initiative are considered key competencies in academia, teaching at university level does often amount to the transfer of knowledge from an expert (the lecturer) to a passively absorbing audience (the students). Participants of this course will get to know various activating methods and teaching strategies, which encourage students to study autonomously and self-determined. A strong focus will be set on the appropriate use of these methods: for which objectives, in which course context and for which target group can a method be applied? Furthermore, participants will have time and opportunity to practice the instruction of several methods.

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Analysing Panel Data

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Toben Dall Schmidt, Nisar Ahmad (SDU Sonderburg/Denmark) – tbc

Date: 06.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 25

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents:

Panel data has become popular due to their very specific structure and associated advantages. This module will introduce these basic structures and offer some first insights into the different standard estimation methods available to use panel data for analysis – the most two most common being the fixed effects models and the random effects models. In terms of advantages, the module will offer a discussion of the properties of panel data in allowing for unobservable heterogeneity, but it will also point to some of the caveats of using panel data, e.g. attrition problem in survey data. A final issue in the module will be testing procedures to allow for a selection between different estimation methods for panel data. The module will therefore offer a basic introduction into the essence of panel data analysis.

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften: 2 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen

GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften ist eine von Bund und Ländern finanzierte, international tätige sozialwissenschaftliche Einrichtung der Leibniz- Gemeinschaft.

Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Termin für das Zentrum für Sozial- indikatorenforschung (ZSi) in der Abteilung Dauerbeobachtung der Gesellschaft am Standort Mannheim

2 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen
(Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L, 75 %, befristet auf die Dauer von 4 Jahren)

Ihre Aufgabengebiete werden sein:

  • Weiterentwicklung sowie laufende Pflege und Aktualisierung der Systeme Sozialer Indikatoren des ZSi;
  • Mitwirkung an den Sozialberichterstattungsaktivitäten des ZSi im nationalen und europäischen Rahmen;
  • Empirische Analysen zur Lebensqualität und dem Wandel der Sozialstruktur auch in international vergleichender Perspektive.

Es besteht die Möglichkeit zur Promotion.

Wir erwarten neben einem überdurchschnittlichen sozialwissenschaftlichen Studienabschluss mit Schwerpunkt Soziologie, Interesse an der Sozialindikatorenforschung, gute Kenntnisse im Bereich der international vergleichenden Sozialforschung und amtlicher sowie nicht-amtlicher nationaler und internationaler Datenquellen, die sichere Beherrschung quantitativer Analysemethoden, einen sicheren Umgang mit der Statistiksoftware SPSS und/oder STATA sowie gute englische Sprachkenntnisse.

Die Beachtung der Schwerbehindertenrichtlinien und der Vorschriften des Gesetzes über Teilzeitarbeit ist gewährleistet. Wir fördern die berufliche Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern. GESIS ist durch das „audit beruf und familie“ zertifiziert.

Für weitere Informationen steht Ihnen Herr Dr. Heinz-Herbert Noll (Tel. 0621/1246- 241) zur Verfügung.

Wir bearbeiten nur Online-Bewerbungen. Bitte bewerben Sie sich bis einschließlich 25.07.2011 hier.

Die Kennziffer lautet: DBG-03

SOEP presentations at the “Long Night of the Sciences” in Berlin

The SOEP group is not only active at scientific conferences; we also work hard to bring our work to the broader public. We had an opportunity to do so on the evening of May 28, 2011, at the twelfth annual “Long Night of the Sciences” in Berlin. It was the second time that the SOEP and DIW Berlin participated in this event, in which the capital city’s scientific institutions open their doors to the public for workshops, lectures, and activities. Once again, the “Long Night” proved to be a very successful one for the SOEP!

With the support of the SOEP team from TNS Infratest Sozialforschung in Munich, which carries out the SOEP fieldwork, we invited visitors to take part in a truly “hands-on” experience with the SOEP. More than 300 visitors visited the DIW and the SOEP. They filled out various questionnaires, either on paper or on the PC. They took the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and the grip strength test, and listened to lectures by members of the SOEP staff.

Visitors also found general information on the SOEP, including flyers, brochures, and posters, and had the opportunity to discuss their questions directly with members of the SOEP staff. Elisabeth Liebau, SOEP survey manager, and other members of the SOEP team answered questions on the survey, the production of scientific results, and issues ranging from data protection to the anonymization of survey responses. Jürgen Schupp, Head of SOEP, described the event as an outstanding success, since once again this year, a large number of visitors attended and gathered information on the SOEP study.

Two members of the SOEP staff gave lectures: Markus M. Grabka spoke about wealth inequality and the finding that civil servants are the wealthiest group of retired workers (“Vermögensungleichheit: Im Alter sind Beamte am reichsten”). Elke Holst talked about the issue of gender inequalities in the boardroom (“Frauen und Männer in Führungspositionen” Wann kommt Frau Ackermann?”). Ingrid Tucci presented a poster to the visitors comparing the life courses of second-generation immigrants in Germany and France (“Erfolgreiche Verläufe von Migrantennachkommen – ein deutsch-französischer Vergleich”). Gert G. Wagner, now Chairman of the Executive Board of DIW Berlin, gave the final presentation of the evening on the use of indicators of happiness and life satisfaction in policy-making (“Die Glücksformel in der Politik—wie ein Indikator die Zufriedenheit der Bürger messen soll”).

SOEP at ESRA 2011 in Lausanne

A SOEP exhibition stand at the Fourth Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) will inform visitors about the wide range of analyses that can be carried out with the SOEP. At this event, which will take place in Lausanne/Switzerland from July 18–22, 2011, a variety of papers based on SOEP data will be presented by SOEP staff members Anne Busch, Jan Goebel, Marco Giesselmann, Elke Holst, Martin Kroh, Elisabeth Liebau, Anika Rasner, Jürgen Schupp, and Gert Wagner.