Session: Tuesday 8th July PM (14.15 - 15.30)

Title: Possibilities of Paradata: Technologies and Social Practices: Poverty Surveys 60 Years On

Convenor:

Professor Rosalind Edwards (University of Southampton)


Abstract Details

This session examines paradata as a produce of the technology, and social and professional mores of the time. It explores the nature of paradata from Townsend’s influential 1967-68 Poverty in the UK survey, and that from the 2012 UK Poverty and Social Exclusion survey. Presenters will consider the notes written by fieldworkers in the margins of the paper-based 1967-8 survey booklets, and quantitative and qualitative analyses of computer-recorded interview behaviour from the 2012 survey. What lessons for future paradata capture can be drawn from this historical comparison?

Presentation downloads

Presenter: Karen Bell

How to improve your household surveys: Lessons from analysis of 2012 UK Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey paradata

Presenter: David Gordon

Paradata and the UK Poverty and Social Exclusion survey

The level of the session is: Accessible

Presentation details

Presentation 1

Start time: 14:15

Presentation title:Marginalia forms and narratives in the Poverty in the UK survey 1968

Authors: Ms Heather Elliott (Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education London)
Professor Ann Phoenix (Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education London)

Presentation 2

Start time: 14:40

Presentation title:Applications of survey paradata and the UK Poverty and Social Exclusion survey 2012

Authors: Professor David Gordon (Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bristol)
Dr Eldin Fahmy (Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bristol)

Presentation 3

Start time: 15:05

Presentation title:Paradata and administering the UK Poverty and Social Exclusion survey

Author: Dr Karen Bell (Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bristol)