Abstract
Since 1974 the High Commission of the European Community commissions has commissioned sample surveys in the member countries — at first 9, by 1991 there were 11 units. Twice a year altogether 13,000 interviews are collected. The data are usually presented in large tables in which the countries are cross-tabulated by a series of variables. But is this justified in all cases in current western Europe? To which degree is “country” today more than an administrative artefact? Is “nation” generally the most appropriate sampling frame, or are internal differentiations so large as to call into question “nation” as a unit in sampling and in explanation?
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Blasius, J., Scheuch, E.K. (1996). How Different are European Countries from Each Other? Describing Trend Data by Using Correspondence Analysis. In: Hayashi, C., Scheuch, E.K. (eds) Quantitative Social Research in Germany and Japan. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-95919-5_11
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