ESS Rounds 7 and 8

欧洲社会调查(ESS)是一项独特的跨国研究，自2002年以来一直试图衡量和解释欧洲不断变化的制度与其民众的态度、价值观和行为之间的关系。该调查每两年进行一次。每轮包含一套核心问题，涵盖一系列主题，包括媒体使用、社会信任、政治归属和参与、主观幸福感、社会排斥、宗教、歧视、国民身份、公民身份、移民和社会人口分类问题。每个模块都更详细地关注一个特定主题。纳入的主题是由ESS中央战略小组组织的学者之间的公开竞争选出的。学术团队提交他们的申请和他们的主题的理由，以及他们寻求衡量的细节，以及如何实现这一目标。第七轮的主题是健康不平等和移民。第八轮的议题尚未敲定。每个参与国都指定了一名国家协调员，其职责是监督该国家的ESS实施情况，以及一个负责实地工作和准备数据的调查组织。纳特森社会研究中心正在申请担任英国的国家协调员和调查田野工作。纳特森社会研究中心与ESS有着长期的联系。ESS的大部分早期开发都是由罗杰·乔威尔领导的，他后来指导了ESS的前五轮。ESS与英国社会态度(BSA)分享其方法和态度重点，BSA是罗杰在20世纪80年代设立的NatCen首席执行官。ESS还受到了国际社会调查计划(ISSP)的影响，NatCen在1985年是ISSP的创始成员(此后一直是主要成员)。前六轮ESS的英国协调人由NatCen Social Research的艾莉森·帕克(Alison Park)担任。NatCen还在2002年和2008年进行了调查田野工作。我们最近还进行了一项实验，旨在探索将ESS作为一种混合模式调查的可行性，采用面对面和在线数据收集相结合的方式，并与城市大学的ESS团队合作，定期对ESS问题进行认知测试。

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 orgnaised 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 7 are Health Inequalities and Immigration. The topics for Round 8 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. NatCen Social Research is applying to undertake both the National Coordinator role and the survey fieldwork in the UK.NatCen Social Research has a long association with the ESS. Much of the early development of the ESS was led by Roger Jowell, who went on to direct the first five rounds of the ESS. The ESS shares its methodology and attitudinal focus with British Social Attitudes (BSA), which Roger set-up as Chief Executive of NatCen in the 1980s. The ESS has also been influenced by the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), of which NatCen was a founding member in 1985 (and has been a leading member ever since).The role of UK Co-ordinator for the first six rounds of the ESS has been carried out by Alison Park, of NatCen Social Research. NatCen also undertook the survey fieldwork in 2002 and again in 2008. We have also recently undertaken an experiment aimed at exploring the feasibility of running the ESS as a mixed mode survey, using a combination of face-to-face and online data collection, and have regularly carried out cognitive testing of ESS questions, working with the ESS team at City University.