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Deadline for submissions of abstracts: September 29, 2018. Please note the updated hyperlinks in the CFP (thanks to Elsa) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ APOLOGIES for any cross-posting +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear colleagues, please find attached the CFP for the 6th EU-Microdata User Conferences in Mannheim, March 7-8, 2019. Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political science, public health, and sociology) who use Eurostat microdata (SILC, LFS, AES, SES, CIS, CSIS, EHIS, HBS and TUS ) are encouraged to participate and to submit an abstract. All presentations must be comparative and include data from at least two countries. Topics addressed in the 6th User Conference include e.g. poverty and social exclusion, income inequality, low wage earners, gender earnings gap, migration and labour mobility, the impact of the financial crisis around 2008 on employment and unemployment, quality of work, innovativeness of enterprises, adult education, skills and qualification, and social aspects of health. In addition to substantive issues, presentations focusing on methodological topics are highly welcome. They may include e.g. questions of data quality, cross-national and inter-temporal comparability as well as the comparability of different EU surveys. The deadline for submissions of abstracts is September 29, 2018. Proposals should be submitted online via the presentation submission form<https://www.gesis.org/european-user-conference/submission-form/> at the conference webpage<https://www.gesis.org/european-user-conference/>. Abstracts should be 500 to 1000 words long. The abstract should be informative and clearly state the research question, the hypotheses, the methods and the dataset(s) used, the countries analyzed and a description of preliminary findings. Please do not include tables or figures in your abstract. The submitters will be notified by December 15, 2018, whether their abstract was accepted for presentation or not. For any further questions please contact the local organizers Oshrat Hochman ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Heike Wirth ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and visit the conference webpage at https://www.gesis.org/european-user-conference/ Kind regards Heike Wirth +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Heike Wirth GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften German Microdata Lab Postfach 12 21 55 D-68072 Mannheim Tel.: +49 621 1246 269 Fax: +49 621 1246 100 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.gesis.org/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the EUROPEAN-SOCIAL-POLICY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EUROPEAN-SOCIAL-POLICY&A=1