Dear Colleagues,
please let me remind you at the attached Call for Papers on
"Index - Construction: Methods of Aggregating Indicators of Social and
Economic Well-Being"
and inform you that the official deadline for applications is now
January 31, 2000.
The sessions on "Index - Construction" are part of the
"Fifth International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Cologne,
Germany, October 3 - 6, 2000
organized by the Research Committee on Logic and Methodology (RC33) of
the International Sociological Association (ISA), in Cooperation with
the German Social Science Infrastructure Service (GESIS) and the
Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung (ZA).
For more information on this conference and registration please visit
the following website:
http://www.za.uni-koeln.de/rc33/
For the above mentioned sessions proposals of index construction,
papers discussing related methodological problems as well as papers
reporting
results of monitoring social development and progress using composite
indexes are highly welcome.
Please send your abstract (1 page max.; for details see:
http://www.za.uni-koeln.de/rc33/call_for_papers-fr.htm ) by fax, e-mail
or traditional mail (see below) no later than January 31, 2000.
Yours sincerely,
Heinz-Herbert Noll
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Dr. Heinz-Herbert Noll
Abteilungsleiter Soziale Indikatoren
(Director Social Indicators Department)
ZUMA
Postfach 122155
D-68072 Mannheim (Germany)
Phone:+49-621-1246-241; Fax: +49-621-1246-100/182
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.zuma-mannheim.de/data/social-indicators/
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