Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course

1. Front Matter

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2. Surveying Human Vulnerabilities Across the Life Course: Balancing Substantive and Methodological Challenges

   • Michel Oris, Caroline Roberts, Dominique Joye, Michèle Ernst Stähli

   Pages 1-25Open Access

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3. Representation of Vulnerability and the Elderly. A Total Survey Error Perspective on the VLV Survey

   • Michel Oris, Eduardo Guichard, Marthe Nicolet, Rainer Gabriel, Aude Tholomier, Christophe Monnot et al.

   Pages 27-64Open Access

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4. Adapting Quantitative Survey Procedures: The Price for Assessing Vulnerability? Lessons from a Large-Scale Survey on Aging and Migration in Switzerland

   • Laure Kaeser

   Pages 65-85Open Access

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5. Vulnerability Following a Critical Life Event: Temporary Crisis or Chronic Distress? A Psychological Controversy, Methodological Considerations, and Empirical Evidence

   • Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello, Sara Hutchison, Bina Knöpfli

   Pages 87-111Open Access

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6. A Survey of Couples Facing Breast Cancer in Women

   • Linda Charvoz, Nicolas Favez, Sarah Cairo Notari, Bénédicte Panes-Ruedin, Jean-François Delaloye

   Pages 113-129Open Access

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7. Career Pathways and Professional Transitions: Preliminary Results from the First Wave of a 7-Year Longitudinal Study

   • Christian Maggiori, Jérôme Rossier, Franciska Krings, Claire S. Johnston, Koorosh Massoudi

   Pages 131-157Open Access

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8. How to Survey Displaced Workers in Switzerland: Ways of Addressing Sources of Bias

   • Isabel Baumann, Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, Caroline Vandenplas

   Pages 159-177Open Access

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9. Using Life History Calendars to Survey Vulnerability

   • Davide Morselli, Nora Dasoki, Rainer Gabriel, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Julia Henke, Jean-Marie Le Goff

   Pages 179-201Open Access

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10. Studying Youth Transitions Through a Social Network: First Impressions

    • Véronique Eicher, Mouna Bakouri, Christian Staerklé, Marlene Carvalhosa Barbosa, Alain Clémence

    Pages 203-221Open Access

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11. Attrition in the Swiss Household Panel: Are Vulnerable Groups more Affected than Others?

    • Martina Rothenbühler, Marieke Voorpostel

    Pages 223-244Open Access

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12. Erratum to: A Survey of Couples Facing Breast Cancer in Women

    • Linda Charvoz, Nicolas Favez, Sarah Cairo Notari, Bénédicte Panes-Ruedin, Jean-François Delaloye

    Pages E1-E1Open Access

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This open access book details tools and procedures for data collections of hard-to-reach, hard-to-survey populations. Inside, readers will discover first-hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities across the life course. Coverage first provides an introduction on studying vulnerabilities based on the Total Error Survey framework. Next, the authors present concrete examples on how to survey such populations as the elderly, migrants, widows and widowers, couples facing breast cancer, employees and job seekers, displaced workers, and teenagers during their transition to adulthood. In addition, one essay discusses the rationale for the use of life history calendars in studying social and psychological vulnerability while another records the difficulty the authors faced when trying to set-up an online social network to collect relevant data. Overall, this book demonstrates the importance to have, from the very beginning, a dialogue between specialists of survey methods and the researchers working on social dynamics across the life span. It will serve as an indispensable resource for social scientists interested in gathering and analyzing data on vulnerable individuals and populations in order to construct longitudinal data bases and properly target social policies.

• Economic and social dynamics
• Family and professional trajectories
• LIVES
• Risk societies
• Social Dynamics across the life span
• Total Error Survey framework

• CIGEV, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

  Michel Oris

• Social Sciences Institute, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  Caroline Roberts

• Social Sciences Institute, University of Lausanne , Lausanne, Switzerland

  Dominique Joye

• FORS (Swiss Foundation for the Research in Social Sciences), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  Michèle Ernst Stähli

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