Survey Question Bank

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The Survey Question Bank is maintained by the following people:

Jack Kneeshaw - Service Manager

Jack joined the UKDA in 2000, where he has worked in the Support Services section and, since 2003, on the ESDS. He currently manages the ESDS Longitudinal and ESDS International Microdata services. Within the SRN, Jack is responsible for overseeing the expansion and development of the SQB and integrating that resource both into the wider SRN and the ESDS. He also manages the SRN’s overall web presence and works closely with SRN partners to co-ordinate online content.

In recent years, Jack has spent much of his time supporting the users, data collectors, managers and funders of the UK’s major longitudinal studies, working on projects to make these data more accessible to potential and new users and also to find solutions to managing controlled access to the more sensitive data that the longitudinal studies have collected. He has a particular interest in online data and metadata browsing tools. Jack has a Ph.D. from the Department of Government, University of Essex and his research interests focus on the formation, structure and stability of social and political opinions/attitudes.

Suzanne Barbalet - Survey Resources Network Officer

Suzanne joined the UKDA in April 2009. She is responsible for assisting in the delivery of enhanced online resources for survey researchers as part of the SQB. Her primary role is to prepare survey metadata, including XML and PDF-based versions of the survey instruments, for inclusion in the SQB.

Suzanne is a librarian with extensive bibliographic experience and has worked as a research assistant, managing a CATI facility within the then Social Science Data Archive to collect data for the cross-national survey the Australian Rights Project and was author of its technical report. She also co-ordinated fieldwork and trained interviewers for Phase Two of the Canberra Longitudinal Study of the Elderly conducted by the Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University. She was editor of the former Virtual Training Suite’s Internet Sociologist. Her research interests are in the area of History of Sociology and Sociological Theory.

Expert contributors

Ann Bowling: 'Survey measurement of general health status'

Peter Brierley: 'Religion'

Martin Bulmer: 'Ethnicity'

Vernon Gayle: 'Youth transitions'

Gareth Hagger-Johnson: 'Alcohol use in youth'

Mike Hough: 'Measuring crime'

Crispin Jenkinson: 'Measuring health status and quality of life'

Robert Johns: 'Likert items and scales'

Iain Lang: 'Physical functioning in older adults'

Siobhan McAndrew: 'Measuring religiosity using surveys'

Catherine H. Mercer: 'Measuring sexual behaviour and risk'

Susan Murray: 'Youth transitions'

Stephen Pudney: 'Survey measures of drug/substance use'

Silke Schneider: 'Measuring educational attainment'

Roger Thomas: 'Economic Activity' | 'Measuring disability in the general population using sample surveys and censuses' | 'Household definition' | 'Housing and Household Amenities' | 'Income'

David Voas: 'Measuring religiosity using surveys'

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