Harmonization: Newsletter on Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences
Harmonization: Newsletter on Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences

Summary/Abstract: The following are reprints of the articles that appeared this year in the Newsletter, Harmonization: Newsletter on Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences. This Newsletter is a production of, and was originally published by, Cross-national Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training program (CONSIRT.osu.edu), The Ohio State University and the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). It was edited by Irina Tomescu-Dubrow and Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, CONSIRT. Marta Kołczyńska of The Ohio State University provided technical assistance. The first issue appeared as Volume 1, Number 1, in Winter 2015. The second appeared as Volume 1, Number 2, in Fall 2015. They were first published in the website, consirt.osu.edu/newsletter. The catalyst for the Newsletter is the project, “Democratic Values and Protest Behavior: Data Harmonization, Measurement Comparability, and Multi-Level Modeling” (hereafter, Harmonization Project). Financed by the Polish National Science Centre in the framework of the Harmonia grant competition (2012/06/M/HS6/00322), the Harmonization Project joins the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology PAN and the OSU Mershon Center for International Security Studies in creating comparable measurements of political protest, social values, and demographics using information from well-known international survey projects. The team includes: Kazimierz M. Slomczynski (PI), J. Craig Jenkins (PI), Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Przemek Powałko, Marcin W. Zieliński, and research assistants: Marta Kołczyńska, Matthew Schoene, Ilona Wysmułek, Olena Oleksiyenko, Anastas Vangeli, and Anna Franczak. For more information about the harmonization porject, please visit dataharmonization.org. All volumes of Ask: Research and Methods, 1995 to the present, including each individual article, are permanently archived in The Ohio State University’s Knowledge Bank. You can find more about it at the website, CONISRT.osu.edu/askresearchandmethods.

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