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Call for Papers: "Measuring Concepts for Social Bookkeeping Data". Session at the 8th International Conference on Social Science Methodology (Sydney, Australia, July 9 - July 13, 2012). Deadline for Submission: 1 December 2001 Please find below a detailed notice regarding these sessions below ************************************************************************** Call for Papers: Measuring Concepts for Social Bookkeeping Data Session Convenors: Nina Baur, Technical University Berlin, and Pia Wagner, INCHER Kassel When using research-elicited data, researchers can control and plan the research process in advance. In recent years, there has been much progress on optimizing and harmonizing measurement concepts for survey data and on developing procedures for minimizing TSE. For example, "Advances in Cross-National Comparison" (Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik & Wolf, eds., 2003) provides concrete guidelines for measuring various variables such as gender, age, ethnicity and education. In contrast, using social bookkeeping data (also public administrational data, quantitative/standardized process-produced/process-generated data, mass data or mass files) have been typically collected long before and for other purposes than social science analysis. How data are measured is usually defined by administrational procedures, and both these procedures and the mode of data collection may and do change over time. Moreover, the definitions are not necessarily the ones a researcher would use. Continuing the discussion started in Historical Social Research HSR 34 (3) in 2009, the session aims at exploring how specific variables can be appropriately measured under these circumstances and how this affects equivalence. The variables discussed can be either socio-demographic variables (e.g. gender, age, ethnicity, education, occupational and employment status), latent constructs (e.g. social class) or values. Papers can either illustrate this using a specific data set or comparing different data sets. The session takes place at the 8th International Conference on Social Science Methodology (The University of Sydney, Sydney Australia, Monday July 9 - Friday July 13, 2012). The call for abstracts of papers is open until December 1, 2011. Abstracts will only be accepted through the online submission form, and submission in any other form will not be accepted (instructions will be on the conference website). Session convenors or the conference organisers will inform you of your abstract acceptance by December 19, 2011 and registrations will open on that date. The conference website provides information about the conference, including key dates and deadlines, and submission guidelines. You can sign up for regular updates and news about the conference on the website. Conference Web site: http://rc33conference2012.acspri.org.au Please direct any queries to: [log in to unmask] **************************************************************************