scholarly journals The harmonisation of longitudinal data: a case study using data from cohort studies in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1419-1437 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER A. BATH ◽  
DORLY DEEG ◽  
JAN POPPELAARS
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Religious Attendance ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam ◽  
Aging Study ◽  
Using Data

ABSTRACTThis paper presents a case study of the challenges and requirements associated with harmonising data from two independently-conceived datasets from The Netherlands and the United Kingdom: the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) and the Nottingham Longitudinal Study of Activity and Ageing (NLSAA). The objectives were to create equivalent samples and variables, and to identify the methodological differences that affect the comparability of the samples. Data are available from the two studies' 1992–93 surveys for respondents born during 1908–20, and the common data set had 1,768 records and enabled the creation of 26 harmonised variables in the following domains: demographic composition and personal finances, physical health, mental health and loneliness, contacts with health services, physical activity, religious attendance and pet ownership. The ways in which the methodological differences between the two studies and their different selective attrition might lead to sample differences were carefully considered. It was concluded that the challenges of conducting cross-national comparative research using independent datasets include differences in sampling, study design, measurement instruments, response rates and selective attrition. To reach conclusions from any comparative study about substantive socio-cultural differences, these challenges must first be identified and addressed.

scholarly journals Gypsy–Traveller communities in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands: socially and digitally excluded?

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 637-653
Author(s):  
Leanne Townsend ◽  
Koen Salemink ◽  
Claire Denise Wallace
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Digital Communications ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Socially Excluded ◽  
The Impact

With the pervasiveness of digitisation communications, those that are left behind are seen as socially excluded. In both academic and policy discourses, it is assumed that digital inclusion as a route into mainstream society is a desirable solution to problems of multiple exclusion and has led to many studies of the digital inclusion/exclusion of ‘hard to reach’ groups. Yet, Gypsy–Travellers, among the most marginalised people in society, have received little attention. Using data from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, we assess the impact of digital communications on Gypsy–Traveller communities. This article makes a contribution in the following ways: First, we address the theories of ‘fields of inclusion’ to show how exclusion and inclusion work together in different ways; Second, we explore how different policy frameworks in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom shape these possibilities; Third, we document the forms of inclusion that Gypsy–Travellers experience in terms of digital communications; Fourth, we look at how Gypsy–Travellers use digital communications to recreate their own cultures as well as selectively integrate with mainstream society.

Investigating Assessment Standards in the Netherlands, Italy, and the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-94
Author(s):  
Sabrina Petersohn ◽  
Sophie Biesenbender ◽  
Christoph Thiedig
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Evaluation Procedures ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Assessment Standards ◽  
Responsible Research

The following contribution asks which role standards for research information play in practices of responsible research evaluation. The authors develop the notion of assessment standards against the background of functional standard classifications. The development of semantic and procedural assessment standards in the national research evaluation exercises of the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Italy are investigated using a qualitative case study design. A central finding of the study is that assessment standards incorporate conflicting values. A continuous tradeoff between the transparency of evaluation procedures and provided information as well as the variety of research outputs is being counterbalanced in all countries by compensating a higher level of semantic standardization with lower degrees of procedural standardization.

Citizen-led digital policing and democratic norms: The case of self-styled paedophile hunters

2019 ◽  
pp. 174889581988095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Hadjimatheou
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Citizen Involvement ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Democratic Norms

Citizen involvement in the provision of security is often presented as a win–win way to relieve pressure on police resources while building stronger, more responsible and democratically engaged communities. Governments in countries such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have adopted a ‘strategy of responsibilisation’ designed to encourage, enable and support citizens to take on tasks otherwise left for police. Yet, this strategy conspicuously ignores the growing number of citizen-led digital policing initiatives which operate independently without the encouragement or guidance of police. This article considers the implications of this trend for democratic norms in policing. It uses the phenomenon of self-styled paedophile hunters – which are now active in countries around the world – as a case study. The article makes comparisons between such initiatives and other, relatively well-theorised informal security providers, such as vigilante groups and civilian policing. It argues that, like vigilantes, citizen-led digital police often challenge democratic principles of transparency, accountability and the rule of law. Yet, like other civilian policing initiatives, they increase empowerment and participation, and rely for their success on the presence of strong and legitimate institutions of justice, to which they ultimately defer. These characteristics present a discreet set of opportunities and challenges for contemporary policing, which this article argues can only be addressed by strategic police engagement.

scholarly journals The ParlSpeech V2 data set: Full-text corpora of 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of nine representative democracies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Rauh ◽  
Jan Schwalbach
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Meta Data ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Text Corpora

ParlSpeech V2 contains complete full-text vectors of more than 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, covering periods between 21 and 32 years. Meta-data include information on date, speaker, party, and partially agenda item under which a speech was held. This release note provides a more detailed guide to the data.

Journalists and Editors: Political Proximity as Determinant of Career and Autonomy

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ceron ◽  
Sergio Splendore ◽  
Thomas Hanitzsch ◽  
Neil Thurman
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
The Political ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Media Outlet ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Career Incentives

Political economy suggests that media owners try to influence the process of media production by providing career incentives to like-minded journalists and adjusting the level of professional autonomy granted to them. Accordingly, we analyze whether the political distance between editors and journalists (i.e., reporters) affects the careers of journalists in terms of rank and salary, as well as their perceived professional autonomy. We hypothesize that editors reward and allow freedom to journalists whose political viewpoints coincide more precisely with their own. Political proximity to editors should lead to a better salary and rank for reporters and to a stronger perception of editorial autonomy among reporters. We tested our hypotheses through statistical analysis using data from the Worlds of Journalism Study. We analyzed the answers of 3,087 journalists interviewed between 2012 and 2016 in six European countries: Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The results support our hypotheses. The analysis reveals a polarization of media outlet editors, and robust results were achieved via a measure of political proximity that takes into account the particular influence of left-leaning and right-leaning editors. Such partisan leaning, however, seems less relevant in countries belonging to Hallin and Mancini’s Atlantic model.

scholarly journals The ParlSpeech data set: Annotated full-text vectors of 3.9 million plenary speeches in the key legislative chambers of seven European states

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Rauh ◽  
Pieter de Wilde ◽  
Jan Schwalbach
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The United Kingdom

ParlSpeech contains full-text vectors of more than 3.9 million plenary speeches in the key legislative chambers of the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, covering periods between 22 and 28 years. Speeches are annotated with date, speaker and party. This release note provides a more detailed guide to the data.

scholarly journals Time is of the Essence: A Longitudinal Study on Business Presence in Political News in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellis Aizenberg ◽  
Marcel Hanegraaff
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Political News ◽  
Organized Interests ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Media ◽  
Interest Organizations

This paper analyses the presence of interest organizations in political news in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands between 1990 and 2017. Previous research on organized interests in the media revealed (1) a consistent overrepresentation of business interests across countries, but (2) also that this overrepresentation has decreased over time in a European context. However, these studies are snapshots of interest group patterns with either cross-country or longitudinal variation, and important players such as corporations have been largely excluded by European scholars. We argue that including corporations affects previous conclusions as it reveals substantial differences across countries and an increasing role of business interests in the news. We use a data set of Dutch and British news articles, in which we identified 34,657 interest organizations. This endeavor highlights that the distribution of organized interests in the media is skewed toward business interests and has not become more diverse. This suggests that the important insider role of business interests translates to outsider venues, which tells us something about how the news media maintain these patterns through the construction of news stories. These findings interfere with ideas of representativeness and flourishing democracies with a diverse public debate in which many different voices are expressed.

scholarly journals A model of tuberculosis clustering in low incidence countries reveals more on-going transmission in the United Kingdom than the Netherlands between 2010 and 2015

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Brooks-Pollock ◽  
Leon Danon ◽  
Hester Korthals Altes ◽  
Jennifer A. Davidson ◽  
Andrew M. T. Pollock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Imported Infection ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Transmission Mechanisms ◽  
Recent Transmission ◽  
Low Incidence ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk

AbstractTuberculosis (TB) is a major public health threat, including in low TB incidence countries, through a combination of imported infection and onward transmission. Using data from the Enhanced Tuberculosis Surveillance system in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Netherlands (NL) Tuberculosis Register, we developed a mathematical model of TB importation and transmission in low-incidence settings. We apply this method to compare the effective reproduction number for TB, the contribution of importation and the role of superspreaders in the UK and the NL. We estimate that on average, between 2010 and 2015, a TB case generated 0·41(0·30,0·60) secondary cases in the UK, and 0·24(0·14,0·48) secondary cases in the NL. A majority of cases did not generate any secondary cases. Recent transmission accounted for 26% (21%,36%) of UK cases and 19%(11%,31%) of NL cases. We predict that reducing UK transmission rates to those observed in NL would result in 538(266,818) fewer cases annually in the UK. This methodology reveals common transmission mechanisms across two low-incidence countries and can be applied to other settings. Control policies aimed at limiting spread have a role to play in eliminating TB in low incidence countries.

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