Life at age 17 – latest findings from the Growing Up in Scotland study

Eurofound, the Dublin-based EU-Agency for the improvement of living and working conditions in Europe, has a long tradition of fielding random-probability comparative surveys across Europe.
Starting in 1990 with the European Working Conditions Survey, and expanding in 2003 and 2004 respectively with the European Quality of Life Survey and the European Company Survey, Eurofound has become a centre of expertise in the area of data collection and survey methodology.
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 forced Eurofound, like all other survey organisations, to temporarily cease the face-to-face surveys it had in the field and consider alternative methods. In need of immediate data to try and understand the implications of the lockdown for Europeans, the survey team at Eurofound launched what was meant to be a one-off online and non-probabilistic survey.
This webinar tells the story of how this quick idea has developed into a standard instrument for Eurofound. Daphne Ahrendt and Eszter Sandor will talk about how the survey quickly became a huge success while also raising questions about the data.
They will present the work Eurofound has done and is still doing to improve the Living and Working in Europe e-survey, currently in its 7th edition, and how Eurofound deals with the limitations imposed by this different, yet innovative way of collecting data.
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