European Social Survey, Round 11 and 12 UK National Coordinator for the UK component of the European Social Survey

欧洲社会调查是一项独特的跨国研究，自2002年以来，该调查力求衡量和解释欧洲不断变化的体制与其人口的态度、价值观和行为之间的关系，每两年进行一次。每轮调查均包含一套核心问题，涵盖一系列主题，包括媒体使用、社会信任、政治派别和参与、主观幸福感、社会排斥、宗教、歧视、国家身份和公民身份、移民以及社会人口分类问题。此外，每轮调查还包含两个轮流提问模块。每个模块都更详细地关注一个特定的主题。列入的主题是由ESS中央战略团队组织的学术界公开竞争选择的。学术团队提交他们的申请和理由，他们的主题和细节，他们试图衡量和如何实现这一点。第11轮的主题是健康方面的性别和社会不平等、社会公正和公平以及生命的时间安排，这重复了前一轮的一个模块。第12轮的主题尚未最后确定，每个参与国任命一名国家协调员，其职责是监督ESS在该国的实施情况，并任命一个调查组织，负责实地工作和准备数据。该建议涉及国家协调员的作用，国家协调员的目的是监督ESS在联合王国的实施，协调ESS所涉各不同团体之间的工作，并向分析人员和其他有关方面（如政府或第三部门）宣传ESS数据。NC可能必须监督调查机构的任命，以管理实地工作（取决于NC本身是否为自己可能投标的调查机构工作）。国家协调委员会必须确保调查在所有阶段都按照斯洛文尼亚统计局的高标准进行，从样本设计到数据收集和准备最终数据集以提交给斯洛文尼亚统计局档案。这些标准及规定载于由雇员培训局局长及科技支援小组拟备的雇员培训局规格内。NC还必须同意对ESS调查问卷进行必要的调整，以确保其适合英国，同时确保ESS数据要求得到满足。此外，国家协调委员会还向科技委提供咨询意见，并为关于问卷设计和欧洲统计调查方法的讨论作出贡献，并出席一年两次的国家协调委员会论坛会议。这可以追溯到ESS的最初成立，它是由SCPR的创始人Roger Jowell教授推动的。在许多方面，ESS与NatCen自己的态度调查英国社会态度（BSA）有很多相似之处。因此，我们赞同斯洛文尼亚就业服务局的许多价值观和目标，特别是致力于采用严格的方法，并希望了解广大民众的态度和意见。NatCen负责协调2002年、2008年、2014年和2016年、2018年以及目前2021/22年的前十轮ESS以及调查实地工作。我们还与第六轮一起进行了一项混合模式实验，使用面对面和在线数据收集相结合的方式。作为第8轮的一部分，我们还承担了CRONOS小组英国成员的招聘工作，并作为第10轮的一部分参与了小组的招聘工作。

The European Social Survey (ESS) is a unique cross-national study which, since 2002, has sought to measure and explain the relationship between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, values and behaviours of its population.The survey is run biennially. Each Round contains a set of core set of questions, which cover a range of topics including media use, social trust, political affiliation and engagement, subjective well-being, social exclusion, religion, discrimination, national identity citizenship, immigration as well as socio-demographic classification questions.In addition, each Round contains two rotating question modules. Each module focuses on a particular topic in more detail. The topics for inclusion are selected by an open competition among academics organised by the ESS Central Strategic team. Academic teams submit their applications and justifications for their topics and details of what they seek to measure and how this will be achieved. The topics for Round 11 are Gender and Social Inequalities in Health Justice and Fairness in Society and Timing of Life, which repeats a module run in an earlier Round. The topics for Round 12 are yet to be finalised.Each participating country appoints a National Coordinator, whose role is to oversee the implementation of the ESS in that country and a survey organisation which undertakes the fieldwork and prepares the data. This proposal relates to the role of the National Coordinator.The aim of the National Coordinator (NC) is to oversee the implementation of the ESS in the UK, coordinating between the various different groups involved in ESS and promoting ESS data to analysts as well as other interested parties for example in government, or the third sector. The NC may have to oversee the appointment of a survey organisation to administer the fieldwork (dependent on whether the NC themselves works for a survey organisation that itself might bid). The NC must ensure that the survey is conducted according to the high standards of the ESS at all stages, from sample design through to data collection and preparation of the final dataset for delivery to the ESS archive. These standards and requirements are set out in the ESS specifications prepared by the ESS Director and CST. The NC must also agree the necessary adjustments to the ESS questionnaire to ensure it is appropriate for the UK, whilst at the same time ensuring that the ESS data requirements are met. In addition, the NC provides advice to the CST and contributes to discussions about questionnaire design and the ESS methodology and attends the biannual NC Forum meetings.The ESS is a high-profile and widely respected social survey with which NatCen has a long association. This can be traced back to the original inception of the ESS, which was driven by Professor Roger Jowell, SCPR's (as NatCen was known then) founder. In many respects, the ESS shares a lot of similarities with British Social Attitudes (BSA), NatCen's own attitudinal survey. We therefore share many of the values and objectives of ESS, in particular a commitment to rigorous methodology and a desire to shed light on the attitudes and opinions of the general population. NatCen has undertaken the coordination of the first ten rounds of the ESS as well as the survey fieldwork in 2002, 2008, 2014 and 2016, 2018 and currently in 2021/22. We have also conducted a mixed mode experiment alongside Round 6 using a combination of face-to-face and online data collection. We also undertook the recruitment of the UK element of the CRONOS panel as part of Round 8 and are partipating in recruitment of the panel as part of Round 10.