Dieses Buch zu Ehren von Heinz Sahner bietet einen Uberblick zu aktueller Forschung im Bereich Methoden und Transformationsforschung."

." . . just what you need. . .if it's genuinely useful information you're looking for, from people who, like you, are trying to keep body and soul and writing together" -The Huffington Post "Yes, writers, there is life after the MFA. Eight or nine years before I found an agent and a publisher, I found a writers' group. My literary success has been partly about luck but mostly about persistence, humility, a commitment to solitude, and active and ongoing participation in a community of writers. Now What? is an effective primer crafted by a writing community on how to build your own writing...

This book addresses a broad array of pressing challenges of longitudinal surveys and provides innovative solutions to methodological problems based on the example of the NEPS. It covers longitudinal issues such as sampling, weighting, recruiting and fieldwork management, the design of longitudinal surveys and the implementation of constructs, conducting competence tests over the life course, effective methods to improve and to maintain the highest level of data quality, data management tools for large-scale longitudinal surveys, the dissemination of research data to heterogeneous scientific...