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Life Course Research and Social Policies 3 Michel Oris Caroline Roberts Dominique Joye Michèle Ernst Stähli Editors Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course Life Course Research and Social Policies Volume 3 Serieseditors LauraBernardi DarioSpini MichelOris Life course research has been developing quickly these last decades for good reasons. Life course approaches focus on essential questions about individuals’ trajectories, longitudinal analyses, cross-fertilization across disciplines like life- span psychology, developmental social psychology, sociology of the life course, social demography, socio-economics, social history. Life course is also at the crossroads of several fields of specialization like family and social relationships, migration,education,professionaltrainingandemployment,andhealth.ThisSeries invites academic scholars to present theoretical, methodological, and empirical advancesintheanalysisofthelifecourse,andtoelaborateonpossibleimplications forsocietyandsocialpoliciesapplications. Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttp://www.springer.com/series/10158 Michel Oris (cid:129) Caroline Roberts (cid:129) Dominique Joye Michèle Ernst Stähli Editors Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course Editors MichelOris CarolineRoberts CIGEV SocialSciencesInstitute UniversityofGeneva UniversityofLausanne Geneva,Switzerland Lausanne,Switzerland DominiqueJoye MichèleErnstStähli SocialSciencesInstitute FORS(SwissFoundationforthe UniversityofLausanne ResearchinSocialSciences) Lausanne,Switzerland UniversityofLausanne Lausanne,Switzerland ISSN2211-7776 ISSN2211-7784 (electronic) LifeCourseResearchandSocialPolicies ISBN978-3-319-24155-5 ISBN978-3-319-24157-9 (eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-24157-9 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2016931328 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s)2016.Thisbookispublishedopenaccess. 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Printedonacid-freepaper ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAGSwitzerland Contents SurveyingHumanVulnerabilitiesAcrossthe Life Course: BalancingSubstantiveandMethodologicalChallenges ..................... 1 Michel Oris, Caroline Roberts, Dominique Joye, andMichèleErnstStähli Representationof Vulnerability andthe Elderly. A Total SurveyErrorPerspectiveontheVLVSurvey ................................ 27 Michel Oris, Eduardo Guichard, Marthe Nicolet, Rainer Gabriel,AudeTholomier,ChristopheMonnot,DelphineFagot, andDominiqueJoye Adapting QuantitativeSurvey Procedures:The Price for AssessingVulnerability?LessonsfromaLarge-ScaleSurvey onAgingandMigrationinSwitzerland....................................... 65 LaureKaeser VulnerabilityFollowinga CriticalLife Event: Temporary Crisis or ChronicDistress? A PsychologicalControversy, MethodologicalConsiderations,andEmpiricalEvidence................... 87 PasqualinaPerrig-Chiello,SaraHutchison,andBinaKnöpfli ASurveyofCouplesFacingBreastCancerinWomen ...................... 113 Linda Charvoz, Nicolas Favez, Sarah Cairo Notari, BénédictePanes-Ruedin,andJean-FrançoisDelaloye CareerPathwaysandProfessionalTransitions:Preliminary ResultsfromtheFirstWaveofa7-YearLongitudinalStudy............... 131 Christian Maggiori, Jérôme Rossier, Franciska Krings, ClaireS.Johnston,andKooroshMassoudi How to Survey Displaced Workersin Switzerland: Ways ofAddressingSourcesofBias................................................... 159 Isabel Baumann, Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, andCarolineVandenplas v vi Contents UsingLifeHistoryCalendarstoSurveyVulnerability....................... 177 Davide Morselli, Nora Dasoki, Rainer Gabriel, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Julia Henke, andJean-MarieLeGoff StudyingYouthTransitionsThroughaSocialNetwork: FirstImpressions................................................................. 201 Véronique Eicher, Mouna Bakouri, Christian Staerklé, MarleneCarvalhosaBarbosa,andAlainClémence Attritionin the Swiss Household Panel: Are Vulnerable GroupsmoreAffectedthanOthers?........................................... 221 MartinaRothenbühlerandMariekeVoorpostel Surveying Human Vulnerabilities Across the Life Course: Balancing Substantive and Methodological Challenges MichelOris,CarolineRoberts,DominiqueJoye,andMichèleErnstStähli 1 Introduction This book matches two concepts, one substantive, and the other methodological: ‘vulnerability’and‘surveyquality’.Itconcernsthechallengesinvolvedinconduct- inghighqualitysocialresearchusingsurveymethodsinnon-standardcontexts,to learn about vulnerable people and their experiences of vulnerability. The volume bringstogether nine contributionsto a major Swiss research infrastructurenamed ‘LIVES – Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives’, each of which toucheson the tension betweenthe pursuitof elaborate,oftendelicate substantive researchaims,andthedemandformethodologicalrigour.TheLIVESresearchpro- grammehasbeenfundedbytheSwissConfederationthroughtheNationalScience Foundation’sNationalCentresofCompetenceinResearch(NCCR)scheme,which This chapter and this volume as a whole have been made possible by the support of the NationalCentre ofCompetences inResearch “LIVES –Overcoming Vulnerability:Lifecourse perspectives,”financedbytheSwissScienceFoundation(SNF).Theauthorsexpresstheirgratitude totheSNF. M.Oris((cid:2)) NCCRLIVES,IPs213&214,Geneva,Switzerland CentrefortheInterdisciplinaryStudyofGerontologyandVulnerability,UniversityofGeneva, Geneva,Switzerland e-mail:[email protected] C.Roberts(cid:129)D.Joye(cid:129)M.ErnstStähli NCCRLIVES,IP214,Lausanne,Switzerland SocialSciencesInstitute,UniversityofLausanne,Lausanne,Switzerland FORS(SwissFoundationfortheResearchinSocialSciences),UniversityofLausanne, Lausanne,Switzerland ©TheAuthor(s)2016 1 M.Orisetal.(eds.),SurveyingHumanVulnerabilitiesacrosstheLifeCourse, LifeCourseResearchandSocialPolicies3,DOI10.1007/978-3-319-24157-9_1 2 M.Orisetal. isdesignedtopromotelong-termresearchnetworksinareasofstrategicimportance for Swiss science, the Swiss economy and Swiss society. As the name ‘LIVES’ suggests,thismultifacetedprojectaimstoaddresshumanvulnerabilitiesacrosslife trajectories,fromthecradletothegrave.YetwhileLIVES’sdefiningfeatureandits raisond’êtreisitsambitioussubstantivefocus,muchoftheresearchbeingcarried outbytheNCCRisequallydrivenandcharacterisedbytwospecificepistemological features: the multidisciplinary nature of the work being undertaken, and a strong emphasisonquantitativemethodsandsurveydatacollection.Thesefeatures,along withthethematicfocusoftheresearch,presentadoublechallengetotheresearchers involved,the first of which is simply how best to obtain “meaningful”data about vulnerabilitiesandpopulationsatrisk,andthesecondofwhichiswhether‘quality’ isbestachievedbyapplyingstandard,widely-acceptedtechniquesforgatheringnew data,orbyadaptingthesemethodstothespecificpopulationsofinterest,orresearch conditions. The pertinence of this challenge – the methodological aspects of which have longtroubledcomparativeresearchers(Harknessetal.2010;Davidovetal.2010)– extendsbeyondLIVESandbeyondSwitzerland.Inthissensetheninechaptersof thisvolumecontributetocrucialscientificdebatesin surveymethodology,aswell asinbothpsychologicalandsocialsciences.Theyprovidedetailedpresentationsof concreteexperiencesofconductingsurveysandusingotherinnovativeapproaches tostudyvulnerabilitiesandvulnerableindividuals(belongingornottopopulations considered to be vulnerable). Each one highlights the importance of a proper integrationoftheory,concepts,questionnairecontentanddesign,proceduresofdata collection,analyticalmethods,andinterpretations,todeveloporiginalperspectives in an area of research, which continuesto gain in popularity.Indeed, the topic of ‘vulnerability’ has seen an explosion of interest in the scientific world over the course of the past 20 years, partly in response to demands from stakeholders and citizens,inspiteof–ormaybebecauseof–thefactthattheconceptofvulnerability isnotclearlydefined.Itsmanyconnotationsanduseshavebothgeneralandspecific implicationsforthemethodsusedtoinvestigatethephenomenatowhichitpertains, andnotably,forthevariousdecisionsinvolvedinthedesignofquantitativesurveys. This booktackles the challengeof using surveyresearch methodology– either on its own or in combination with other innovative approaches (such as social networksandobservation)–tocollectdatafromvulnerablepopulationsubgroups, to investigate their experiences of vulnerability and the resources available to themforsurmounting‘vulnerabilising’contexts,eventsandlifetransitions.While at the same time aspiring to uphold the scientific standards of survey research methodology, researchers interested in vulnerability face a number of distinctive challenges. Many are extensions of existing problems affecting the quality with whichanysurveycanbecarriedout. Apart of being helpful for people working with data produced within the LIVESproject, this book is mainly addressed to researchersspecialized on topics around vulnerability, survey practitioners and survey methodologists who aim at questioningtheirroutines,aswellastoyoungresearcherslookingforexamplesof honestandinnovatingsocialsciencemaking. SurveyingHumanVulnerabilitiesAcrosstheLifeCourse:Balancing... 3 Afterthisintroductorychapter,whichdiscussesthecontributionofthefollowing chapters,thebookisorganizedasfollows:thefirstsixchaptersaregroupedaround the surveyed topics and populations: elder people for chapters “Representation of Vulnerability and the Elderly. A Total Survey Error Perspective on the VLV Survey” and “Adapting Quantitative Survey Procedures: The Price for Assessing Vulnerability? Lessons from a Large-Scale Survey on Aging and Migration in Switzerland”, harsh events (such as widowing and cancer) during middle age for chapters “Vulnerability Following a Critical Life Event: Temporary Crisis or Chronic Distress? A Psychological Controversy, Methodological Considerations, and Empirical Evidence” and “A Survey of Couples Facing Breast Cancer in Women”, working careers and disruptions for chapters “Career Pathways and Professional Transitions: Preliminary Results from the First Wave of a 7-Year LongitudinalStudyand“HowtoSurveyDisplacedWorkersinSwitzerland:Waysof AddressingSourcesofBias”.Thelastthreechaptersaremorefocusedonaspecific survey tool: life calendars for chapter “Using Life History Calendars to Survey Vulnerability”, online social networks for chapter “Studying Youth Transitions Througha SocialNetwork:FirstImpressions”andpanelsforchapter“Attritionin theSwissHouseholdPanel:AreVulnerableGroupsMoreAffectedthanOthers?”. 1.1 Backgroundto ThisVolume At the origin of this collection is an international workshop organized by LIVES called ‘Methodological and Substantive Challenges in Measuring vulnerability across the Life Course’, held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in June, 2012. The aim of the workshop was to address some of the methodological challengesinvolvedinmeasuringvulnerabilityandresilienceusingsocialsurveys. The workshop broughttogether substantive specialists in researching these topics fromwithinLIVES,andinvitedinternationalexpertsinsurveymethodologytoshed lightonsomeofthesharedmethodologicalchallengesbeingfacedbythethematic research projects that make up LIVES. The challenges discussed at the workshop included(1)samplingandsurveying‘hard-to-reach’populations;(2)theriskoflow anddifferentialratesofparticipationacrossimportantsub-groups,andattritionfor surveyswithalongitudinaldesign;(3)difficultiesassociatedwithusingtraditional data collection methods, including telephone under-coverageand the high cost of face-to-face interviewing,which have increased the demand for mixed mode data collection;and(4)measurementchallengesincludingthecollectionofretrospective data(e.g.eventhistoriesandretrospectiveevaluationsofpersonalwellbeingacross different points of the life course), and the potential for interviewer effects on data quality. Understanding the nature of such challenges and the implications they have for the substantive aims of the LIVES project was one of the primary objectivesof the workshop.A secondary,and relatively seldom pursuedaim, was to forge a dialogue between substantive and methodological specialists, to try to
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