Changign nature of  / and innovation in surveys
Channel: National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)
Date: 2018-01-17

Patrick Sturgis (University of Southampton) talks at the NCRM Autumn School 2017
https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/autumn/

Abstract:
 There has been a great deal of excitement in recent years about the potential for new forms of data to transform empirical social science. Administrative, transactional, and other forms of ‘big data’ are, we are told, set to replace more conventional forms of ‘planned’ data collection such as censuses and surveys. To what extent are such narratives reflected in the actual practice of social science? In this talk, I shall draw on recent research which uses surveys of social scientists and content analysis of journal articles to assess the extent to which social scientists data usage has changed over the past fifty years, with a particular focus on the last decade.