The study focuses on minority ethnic groups and populations that have become a recognisable presence in the Czech Republic: Slovaks, Ukrainians, Vietnamese, and Roma. The main objective of the study is to map the situation of these communities or populations in the Czech Republic.
Topic: migration and mobility, civil society
The report on Czech participation in international comparative socio-economic survey research is aimed at providing information on sources of data available for secondary analysis in sociology. The author informs on multinational continuous survey programs with public domain databases including Czech data and selection of projects in other areas (e.g. one-time international surveys, surveys from before 1989, comparative official statistics, events data, etc.).
Topic: methodology, sociological data
A low response rate is regarded as one of the main sources of variable variance and bias in mass survey estimates. There is a consensus among scholars and pollsters that response-rate trends have been declining, and that this fact poses one of the most serious problems affecting contemporary quantitative social science research. Since the mid-1990s there has been a dramatic decline in the response rates also of sample surveys conducted in the Czech Republic.
Topic: methodology
Non-response rates among Czech respondents in surveys between 1995 and 2005 were almost twice the rate between 1991 and 1995. Such trends point to a decline in the “survey climate.” While non-contacts and refusals are a significant problem, issues relating to how fieldwork is undertaken are equally important. The large fluctuations in non-contacts and the relative success of the Czech Statistical Office and the ESS II.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
Topic: sociological data
The article identifies controversies related to pre-election polls and explains their impact on the possibility to use results. In this context it also pays attention to the importance of polls for representative democracy, impact of the publication of results on public opinion, the possibilities of manipulating surveys, risks related to the growth of research production, the limits to election forecasting, and issues related to the relationship between research and journalism.
Topic: public opinion, elections (and polls)
The ISSP is an international programme of annual questionnaire surveys organised for purposes of longitudinal comparative social research. The article informs on actual contents of the programme, methodology, organisational issues, Czech participation in surveys and accessibility of data.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
Tento text představuje čtenářům typy výzkumů volebních preference realizovaných v České republice. Mezi výzkumy existují rozdíly z hlediska jejich poslání, metodologie a formy výsledků. Článek slouží jako příručka pro laiky, aby byli schopni lépe porozumět jak výzkumy volebních preferencí vznikají a jak jejich výsledkům rozumět.
Topic: methodology, elections (and polls)
Topic: sociological data
Topic: sociological data
Topic: elections (and polls)
Topic: elections (and polls)
Topic: media, elections (and polls)
Topic: methodology, elections (and polls)
Topic: public opinion
Topic: public opinion, elections (and polls)
Topic: sociological data
The book contains the structured web of more than one hundred scenarios for the Czech Republic strategic behavior in European Union. The scenarios are deided into four broad fields: politics, cosial cohesion, institutions and globalization.
Topic: trust/social cohesion, globalisation, public policy
Topic: EU, sociological data
This paper summarises the main conditions affecting the quality of questionnaire surveys in the Czech Republic. It addresses the tradition of survey research, the breadth and depth of professional background, the market environment and competition, the possibilities for applying suitable methods in representative population surveys, and the degree of public willingness to participate in surveys.
Topic: methodology, sociological data
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