Conferences

In Social sciences many different concepts have been measured using multiple indicators. We can mention: Media use, Political efficacy, Social Trust, Political Trust, Party identification, religiosity, Attitude toward immigrants, Human values , Fear of Crime etc. In order to develop measures for these concepts several steps have to be made. The items have to be evaluated on quality, the items have to be evaluated on equivalence across countries, weights have to be chosen for the calculation of the composite scores, and the quality of the composite scores has to be determined. This is a quite tedious process which requires some technical knowledge. Therefore it would be good to discuss with some experts in the field and methodologists how these steps have to be done and possibly are already done. We hope in this way to get an overview of the quality of the measures for the concepts of Social sciences.