Creation of the Czech node of the pan-European project of the large research infrastructure European Social Survey (ESS – survey)

The main aim of the ESS – survey project is creation of the national node of the ESS ERIC (www.europeansocialsurvey.org) in the Czech Republic and the realization of the fifth, sixth and seventh round of ESS survey. The European Social Survey is an academically driven cross-national survey founded in 2001 that has been conducted every two years across Europe. The ESS survey data are archived in the Norwegian Social Sciences Data Service archive. The data might be downloaded from the ESS web pages after registration.  ESS also publishes key findings (Key Findings), enables eLearning via ESS EduNet, and maintains bibliographic database of publications resulting from research on ESS data (ESS Bibliography).

Themes:

• Citizenship, Involvement and Democracy; Immigration
• Family, Work & Well-Being;
• Opinions on Health & Care Seeking;
• Economic Morality in Europe: Market Society & Citizenship
• Personal & Social Well-being: Creating indicators for a flourishing Europe;
• The Timing of Life: The organisation of the life course in Europe
• Experiences and Expressions of Ageism;
• Welfare attitudes in a changing Europe
• Work, Family and Well-being: The Implications of Economic Recession;
• Trust in Criminal Justice: A Comparative European Analysis
• Personal and Social Well-being;
• Europeans' understandings and evaluations of democracy
• Attitudes towards immigrants and their antecedents;
• Social inequalities in health and their determinants