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  1. Biography • Hans Schmeets is senior researcher at Statistics Netherlands (Division of Social and Spatial Statistics, Heerlen) and professor at the University of Maastricht (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, department Political Studies). He is currently programme manager of the new spearhead on Social Cohesion at Statistics Netherlands. His main research interests are various aspects of the quality of life, elections, survey methodology and ethnic minorities. He is member of the advisory board of the Foundation Election Studies in the Netherlands (SKON). Moreover, he has a long-standing work relation with international organisations in the field of democratization – under which the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe (CE) – and has been participated in over 40 Election Observation Missions (EOMs) in the capacity of statistical/election analyst.

  2. Social cohesion: an integrated empirical approach • Hans Schmeets • Statistics Netherlands / University of Maastricht • Brussels, 2007, May 15

  3. Outline • Introduction • Social Statistical Database • Data sources and results • Conclusions and discussion

  4. Introduction • Social cohesion • Social participation • Civic participation • Political participation • Trust and networks (social capital) • Integration (natives and ethnic minority groups) • Statistics Netherlands: no tradition in statistics on ‘social cohesion’ or ‘social capital’ • However, social cohesion: • Spearhead in 2009-2013; • Statistics on aspects of social cohesion; • Social Statistical Database; • Redesign of surveys: survey-module on social cohesion

  5. Social Statistical Database

  6. Register Data (population) • Gender, age, country of origin • Income • Degree of urbanization • Municipality • Unemployed • Social benefits • Neighborhood characteristics • Composition, e.g. % ethnic minorities • Real Estate Value of houses • % unemployed • % social benefits • Etc, etc.,

  7. Surveys used for social cohesion

  8. Permanent Survey on Living Conditions

  9. Permanent Survey on Living Conditions

  10. Permanent Survey on Living Conditions

  11. Labor Force Survey Volunteering work 2001 – 2007, (without period specification), %

  12. Labor Force Survey Volunteering work (at least one) 2001 – 2007, % (without period specification)

  13. EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions

  14. EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions

  15. Security Monitor

  16. Security Monitor + register data

  17. Security Monitor + register data

  18. Survey on Integration of ethnic Minorities

  19. Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2006 + register data (2002-2005)

  20. Conclusions and discussion • Statistics Netherlands: • no evidence that social cohesion is declining in the Netherlands. However: • no tradition in Statistics on Social Cohesion; • information on political participation and trust is rather limited; • no information on networks. Although: • large scale surveys on aspects of social cohesion, in particular on social and civic participation; • register data which are linked to the surveys in the Social Statistical Database; • many research questions can be tackled, on aspects of social cohesion: cross-sectional and longitudinal.

  21. Conclusions and discussion • How to proceed? • Analyzing the current data sources from the perspective of research questions on social cohesion? • Which research questions? • How to analyze? (e.g. multi-level) • Development of a survey-module on social cohesion to be included in the re-design of the surveys (from 2010 onwards)? • Cross-section or panel design? • Network approach? • Interview-mode (Face-to-Face? Telephone? Mixed?) • Sample size? • Concepts and operationalization?

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