Objective In a diverse continent like Europe, much can be learned from cross-national research using surveys among households and individuals. Often, however, such comparisons suffer from differences across countries and socio-economic groups in the way people answer survey questions, particularly self-evaluations of, e.g. health or quality of work. This proposal aims at solving this problem by developing widely applicable tools for comparative survey research among European citizens, called anchoring vignettes. Anchoring vignettes are short descriptions of, e.g. the health or job characteristics of hypothetical persons. Respondents are asked to evaluate the hypothetical persons on the same scale on which they assess their own health or job. Respondents are thus providing an anchor, which fixes their own health assessment to a predetermined health status or job characteristic. These anchors can then be used to make subjective assessments comparable across countries and socio-economic groups. The project will develop anchors that can be used in a broad range of domains (such as health; work disability; quality of life, employment and health care; satisfaction with political institutions) and that can be applied to typical EU sponsored cross-national surveys (such as the ECHP, ESS, SHARE and SILC). Specifically, anchors will be constructed for SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, which currently covers some 22,000 respondents of age 50 and older in 11 EU countries. We use SHARE as a testing ground since it addresses crucial domains of European public policy, such as health care, socio-economic status, employment and retirement. The vignettes will be used to construct improved indicators of health, well-being, job satisfaction, etc., helping Europe to create opportunities for more accurate and richer analyses of the consequences of ageing and the effects of socio-economic and health care policies at the national and European level. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiespublic policiessocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment Keywords Comparative Comparative survey data data survey Programme(s) FP6-CITIZENS - Citizens and Governance in a knowledge-based society: Thematic Priority 7 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research Programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) CITIZENS-2004-1.2.2 - Understanding knowledge Call for proposal FP6-2004-CITIZENS-5 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG EU contribution No data Address Warandelaan, 2 90153 Tilburg Netherlands See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (11) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE Belgium EU contribution No data Address Place du 20 aout 7 Liege See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN Belgium EU contribution No data Address Prinsstraat 13 Antwerpen See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NARODOHOSPOSARSKY USTAV AKADEMIE VED CESKA REPUBLIKA Czechia EU contribution No data Address Politickych veznu 7 882 Prague 1 See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE ET DE DOCUMENTATION EN ECONOMIE DE LA SANTE France EU contribution No data Address 18 rue vauvenargues Paris See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data PANTEION UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES Greece EU contribution No data Address 136 sigrou avenue Athens See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA Italy EU contribution No data Address Via viii febbraio 2 Padova See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI Poland EU contribution No data Address Ul. krakowskie przedmiescie 26/28 Warsaw See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS MONETARIOS Y FINANCIEROS Spain EU contribution No data Address Casado del alisal 5 Madrid See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UPPSALA UNIVERSITET Sweden EU contribution No data Address St olofsgatan 10b Box 256 Uppsala See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data LUNDS UNIVERSITET Sweden EU contribution No data Address Paradisgatan 5c PO Box 117 Lund See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITÄT MANNHEIM Germany EU contribution No data Address Schloss 68131 Mannheim See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data