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Die drei Staaten Polen, Tschechien und Slowenien erlebten in den letzten Jahrzehnten große politische Umbrüche: den Zusammenbruch des Kommunismus Ende der 80er Jahre oder den EU-Beitritt 2004. Diese Umbrüche spiegeln sich auch in den amtlichen Statistiken oder in den erhobenen Daten der Marktforschung wider. Damit stieg auch die Bedeutung einer Vergleichbarkeit und Standardisierung der Daten. Diese Entwicklung wird in der Publikation detailliert beleuchtet.

In the social sciences, the occupation variable is used to derive socio-economic status and/or occupational prestige. This book describes occupation as an indicator of social status, occupation as an indicator of prestige and labor status as an indicator of position in the life-cycle. First, we identify variables necessary to measure occupation, employment and the labour force concept from ILO (International Labour Organisation, Geneva). Second, we introduce strategies for harmonizing the underlying social concepts of the measurements in surveys across countries. Third, we present our own instruments for measuring occupation and labour status in cross-national comparative surveys.

German edition: Jürgen H. P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Uwe Warner, 2009: Die Abfrage von „Ethnizität“ in der international vergleichenden Survey-Forschung. Mannheim: Forschung Raum und Gesellschaft e. V.; for detailed bibliographical information, see http://dnb. ddb. de.

Abstract: "Different cultures and states use their national definition of 'private household'. In the EU nearly each country has an own definition of household. These definitions correspond to the cultural and national structures of social life. The differences result in diverse household compositions and unequal sizes across European nations. Comparing household measures over countries survey analysts face several inconveniences. The composition of the surveyed household has direct impact on the respondents answer about the household size. With regard to the sociological variables 'total household income' and 'socio economic status' of the individual household members, the composition of the household and, therefore, the definition by means of which this composition is determined, is of central importance. In a first step we summarize definitions of household used in national surveys across Europe. Same dwelling, sharing economic resources, common housekeeping and family ties are the main a