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When a respondent’s answer to a survey question is “Don’t know” (DK), we often regard this not as a valid answer but as a form of …
Youth research has an established history of using creative approaches to gain qualitative insights into young people’s lives. The past 15 years have seen a rapid …
The publication of the book The Anonymisation Decision-making Framework1 in July 2016 marked the culmination of a three-year cross-sector collaboration in the UK, and the beginning …
Developing feasible and efficient methods for collecting accurate information about household finances poses many challenges. The “Understanding household finance through better measurement” project, funded by the …
Communications and connections harvested from social media networks are becoming part of the social scientist’s data diet. Since 2011 the Social Data Science Lab at Cardiff …
The International Journal of Social Research Methodology publishes up to two guest-edited Special Issues per volume. We are issuing a mid-term call for Special Issue proposals, …
Professor Patrick Sturgis (NCRM director) appointed Specialist Advisor to House of Lords Select Committee on Political Polling and Digital Media. For more information read the SUSSED …
NCRM is pleased to announce the results of the 2017/2018 IVES funding scheme. Three scholarships were awarded. The first one goes to Professor Rachel Gibson (University …