Like many countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced Statistics Netherlands to make changes in its fieldwork strategy. Since mid-March 2020, there have been limited opportunities to conduct face-to-face interviews. Therefore, from September 2020, CAPI sampled people are offered the opportunity to respond by telephone. For this purpose, face-to-face interviewers are instructed to persuade the potential respondent at the doorway. When people refuse a face-to-face interview, interviewers ask for a telephone number and try to make an appointment to conduct the interview by telephone. The aim of our study was to investigate the effects of conducting the interview by telephone instead of face-to-face on important survey outcome variables. We were particularly interested in whether differences are due to selection effects or caused by mode-specific measurement errors. Because we did not have the time or capacity to set up a controlled experiment, we performed regression analyses to decompensate the differences between selection effects and mode-specific measurement errors. We used data of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Housing Survey (WoON). Our analysis showed that there were differences in important target variables, for both LFS and WoON. These differences were, however, mainly caused by selection effects – which can be taken into account for during weighting – and were less likely to be caused by mode specific measurement errors. Although there are important limitations and caveats, these findings are supportive to further implement this field strategy.
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Challenges that surveys are facing are increasing data collection costs and declining budgets. During the past years, many surveys at Statistics Netherlands were redesigned to reduce costs and to increase or maintain response rates. From 2018 onwards, adaptive survey design has been applied in several social surveys to produce more accurate statistics within the same budget. In previous years, research has been done into the effect on quality and costs of reducing the use of interviewers in mixed-mode surveys starting with internet observation, followed by telephone or face-to-face observation of internet nonrespondents. Reducing follow-ups can be done in different ways. By using stratified selection of people eligible for follow-up, nonresponse bias may be reduced. The main decisions to be made are how to divide the population into strata and how to compute the allocation probabilities for face-to-face and telephone observation in the different strata. Currently, adaptive survey design is an option in redesigns of social surveys at Statistics Netherlands. In 2018 it has been implemented in the Health Survey and the Public Opinion Survey, in 2019 in the Life Style Monitor and the Leisure Omnibus, in 2021 in the Labour Force Survey, and in 2022 it is planned for the Social Coherence Survey. This paper elaborates on the development of the adaptive survey design for the Labour Force Survey. Attention is paid to the survey design, in particular the sampling design, the data collection constraints, the choice of the strata for the adaptive design, the calculation of follow-up fractions by mode of observation and stratum, the practical implementation of the adaptive design, and the six-month parallel design with corresponding response results.
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Adaptive survey design has attracted great interest in recent years, but the number of case studies describing actual implementation is still thin. Reasons for this may be the gap between survey methodology and data collection, practical complications in differentiating effort across sample units and lack of flexibility of survey case management systems. Currently, adaptive survey design is a standard option in redesigns of person and household surveys at Statistics Netherlands and it has been implemented for the Dutch Health survey in 2018. In this article, the implementation of static adaptive survey designs is described and motivated with a focus on practical feasibility.
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In many fields within management and organizational literature there is considerable debate and controversy about key theoretical concepts and their definitions and meanings. Systematic metaphor analysis can be a useful approach to study the underlying conceptualizations that give rise to these controversies and putting them in perspective. It can help identify the different ways a theoretical concept is structured and given meaning, provide insight into the way these different conceptualizations relate to each other, and show how these conceptualizations impact further theorization about the concept. This article describes the procedure for a systematic analysis of the metaphors used to conceptualize key theoretical concepts. To examine its usefulness, the authors apply the approach to the field of social capital, and in particular to the concept of ‘relationships’ in organizations. In the metaphor analysis of three seminal articles on social capital, the authors identify seven metaphoric concepts for relationships. The metaphors are illuminated as important for providing imagery that adds specific meaning in the process of authors theorizing about social capital like ‘tie’, ‘path’ and ‘bridge’. They add dynamics and controllability to the concepts by attributing an array of verbs like ‘to move between’ or ‘to use’ relationships. In addition, the metaphors allow for the attribution of specific characteristics to the concept of relationships that can be used as variables in theory construction, such as the strength of a relationship or the ‘distance’ between people. These insights are useful in exploring and reconciling differences in social capital definitions.
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Over de hedendaagse kunst(wereld) in relatie tot de (hedendaagse) geschiedenis.
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Reflectie over het menselijk lichaam als human resource. Dialoog tussen de auteurs als onderzoeker, kunstenaar en organisatiekundige over presentie, onthulling en interactie.
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Op 1 januari 2007 is officieel bij de faculteit Economie en Management (FEM) van Hogeschool Utrecht het kenniscentrum InnBus van start gegaan. InnBus kan gezien worden als een faculteitsbreed kenniscentrum1 waarbinnen alle lectoraten worden ondergebracht. De naam InnBus staat daarbij voor Innovatie en Business. Bij de inrichting van dit kenniscentrum naar domeinen voor de lectoraten is op een specifieke wijze aansluiting gezocht bij bestaande, algemeen geaccepteerde indelingen naar de Business-deelvakgebieden: Finance; Accountancy; Organisatie & Strategie; Informatiekunde; Marketing. Door hergroepering, splitsing en het uitlichten van International Business is een centrum in ontwikkeling ontstaan, waarbinnen in de nabije toekomst zes lectoraten functioneren. De achterliggende gedachte is het positioneren van de faculteit Economie en Management als kennisonderneming met taken op het gebied van kennisontwikkeling en kennisspreiding, gericht op de versterking van het innoverende vermogen van bedrijven en instellingen in de regio. De daarbij geformuleerde randvoorwaarden luiden: Te ontwikkelen kennis ontstaat vanuit aangetoonde maatschappelijke behoeften; De nieuwe kennis is gericht op professionalisering van de beroepspraktijk; De kennisontwikkeling voldoet aan methodische vereisten. Kort samengevat: binnen het faculteitsbrede kenniscentrum wordt bedrijfeconomisch relevant toegepast onderzoek gedaan, gericht op bedrijven en instellingen in de regio. De keuze voor de regio heeft tot gevolg dat er een zekere voorkeur voor branches of sectoren ontstaat. Kennisspreiding binnen de FEM-organisatie ontstaat door zowel docenten als studenten bij de uitvoering van dit onderzoek te betrekken en op onderzoek gebaseerde curricula verder te ontwikkelen. Sinds 1 januari 2007 heb ik de eervolle taak om samen met mijn medewerkers het proces van kennisontwikkeling en kennisspreiding gestalte te geven binnen het vakgebied van de kenniskring Lectoraat Marketing, Marktonderzoek en Innovatie. In deze openbare les wil ik aangeven wat dit voor ons inhoudt door allereerst aandacht te besteden aan de begrippen innovatie en innoveren en daarna de koppeling te leggen met het vakgebied Marketing en Marktonderzoek.
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De psychische stoornis depressie geldt wereldwijd als centraal probleem voor de volksgezondheid. De vraag echter wat depressie precies is, kent nogal uiteenlopende antwoorden. Bovendien ligt het dominante kader waarbinnen men geacht wordt psychische stoornissen te benaderen en te behandelen vanuit verschillende zijden onder vuur. In dit artikel wordt in plaats van een biomedisch en individualiserend perspectief een cultuurfilosofisch licht op het fenomeen geworpen. Wat zegt de zogeheten depressie-epidemie over de aard van onze hedendaagse cultuur en de plaats van het individu daarbinnen? Op welke wijze wordt het individu door deze cultuur beïnvloed of gevormd? Is deze ‘vorming’ wellicht depressogeen, maakt zij ons in zekere zin ontvankelijker voor datgene wat wij ‘depressieve stoornis’ noemen? Dat laatste is inderdaad het geval, zo luidt hier de gedachte. Depressie is in de grond niet zozeer extreme somberheid of geremdheid, maar existentieel isolement. En de hyperindividualistische en ultradynamische aard van onze laatmoderne, ultraliberale cultuur werkt zulk isolement in de hand.
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Background: Community learning is one approach to promote research competencies and to involve nurses and nursing students in research. This study examines the impact of community learning according to participants-both those inside and outside the community-in a joint nursing research project at a hospital. Method: A qualitative design was se-lected using a participatory approach. Data were col-lected through semistructured interviews, reflections, conversations, and patient input during 2 academic years. Results: Thematic analysis showed 11 themes, which were organized into three clusters: realization, transformation, and influencing factors. Participants perceived changes in practice and described how their perspectives have changed on care, education, and research. Reconsiderations led to some new or revised strategies, and influencing factors were associated with the contemporary context, degree of in-volvement, and design/facilitation. Conclusion: The impact of community learning emerged and extended beyond community boundaries, and the indicated influencing factors must be taken into account.
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In this article, we examine the relationship between important types of policies for asylum permit holders in the Netherlands and the improvement in their command of Dutch. As far as asylum policy is concerned, we find that participation in activities in the asylum seekers reception centre – and in particular, following Dutch language classes – contribute to an improvement in Syrian asylum permit holders’ command of Dutch. On the other hand, a prolonged period of stay and frequent relocations between reception centres are not favourable. Asylum permit holders who have successfully completed the civic integration programme have a better command of the language than asylum permit holders who are still undergoing the programme. An important finding is that there seems to be a sort of double deficit in the area of civic integration: not only do the elderly and lower educated make less progress in learning Dutch, but they are also the ones more likely to receive a dispensation from the civic integration requirement, which places them at a further disadvantage. Third, we find that early participation in the labour market or as a volunteer is also beneficial for language proficiency.
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