YouthLife Advanced Training School: Data Management and Processing

This workshop is aimed at providing a platform for researchers who are experienced  qualitative and quantitative survey research to share their experiences and skills on qualitative and quantitative data management and processing. The focus is on issues of sampling, fieldwork organization and supervision, data quality control, data representativeness and weighting, panel maintenance and the construction of code books. Particular attention will be paid to mixed-mode data collection, like the use of smartphones and digital gadgets to collect information. In addition, attention will be paid to research ethics both regarding the use of personal data (informed consent, secure data storage) and the application of Open Science principles (e.g. FAIR principles of data access). After the workshop, researchers will be prepared for conducting a complex multi-mode and multi-wave survey with both qualitative and quantitative element

Time schedule and program

The workshop is organized by the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) in cooperation with the YouthLife project´s partners – the University of Bamberg and the University of Southampton. 

NIDI is a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and is affiliated with the University of Groningen. NIDI conducts leading, high-level scientific research in the broad field of population studies thereby also contributing to solving societal challenges. The research is organised around four core themes (Ageing   & Longevity, Families & Generations, Migration & Migrants, Work & Retirement), is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach and is internationally oriented.

Instructors:

• Professor Aart C. Liefbroer is Leader of the Research Theme on Families and Generations at NIDI, Professor of Life Course Demography at the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) of the University of Groningen, and Professor by special appointment of Demography of Young Adults and Intergenerational Transmission at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He is interested in determinants and consequences of young adults’ demographic decisions.
• Dr. Olga Grünwald is a Researcher at NIDI and serves as the Data Coordinator for the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP). Her research focuses on the link between paid work and different types of unpaid activities (e.g., volunteer work, informal care, and grandchild care). Besides that, she is also interested in methodological topics in survey research.
• Dr. Siyang Kong is a Postdoc Researcher at NIDI and part of the Families and Generations theme group. She works as the Survey Data Officer at the Generations and Gender programme (GGP). Her research concerns social inequality, labor market and gender.
• Dr. Wojciech Jablonski has a PhD in survey methodology combined with 15 years’ experience working as a researcher, analyst, research operations manager and university instructor. Wojciech works at NIDI for the Generation and Gender Programme, supervising fieldwork operations by research vendors in different countries. He also provides methodological consultancy on questionnaire design, respondent experience, sampling and weighting.
• Dr. Arieke Rijken is the Survey Coordinator for the Generations and Gender Programme. She has published research on fertility and norms and double standards regarding demographic behaviours, as well as studies in the field of criminology and political science.
• Dr. Vytenis Deimantas is the Research Infrastructure Manager of the Generations and Gender Programme. His research focuses on population dynamics (fertility and migration) as well as life course and its links to subjective well-being (life satisfaction, loneliness and mental health) in a policy perspective.
• Dr. Gwendolin Bloßfeld is Postdoc in the Twinning Project ‘Youthlife’ and the DFG priority programme 1646 ‘Education as a Lifelong Process. Analyzing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)’ both located at the University of Bamberg. Her substantive research interests are in the fields of methods of longitudinal data analysis, educational sociology, social inequality, and demography.
• Dr. Susie Weller is a Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Ethics and Law at Southampton (CELS) University of Southampton, UK. She is also affiliated to the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) and is an Honorary Researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Susie has expertise in qualitative longitudinal research (QLR), creative, participatory, and remote methods, and qualitative secondary analysis. With colleagues, she pioneered a new breadth-and-depth method for large-scale qualitative secondary analysis and co-founded the Big Qual Analysis Resource Hub.

The workshop is financially supported by YouthLife project which has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952083.