President Lee Jae-myung has proposed introducing a sugar levy in South Korea, with 80% public support, and reinvesting the proceeds into regional and public healthcare, as policymakers debate measures to strengthen public health and disease prevention.
#YonhapInfomax #SugarLevy #LeeJaeMyung #PublicHealthcare #WHO #SurveyData #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=102380

Americans keep using terrible passwords in 2026 as survey finds pet names and birthdays still rule

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/americans-bad-password-habits-2026/

#GESISblog #blog #DataQuality #SurveyData
The new post on the GESIS blog shows how the #KODAQS #Toolbox helps to improve the quality of survey data: "The KODAQS Toolbox – Assessing and Mitigating Data Quality Issues - Part 1: Survey Data".
https://blog.gesis.org/the-kodaqs-toolbox-assessing-and-mitigating-data-quality-issues-part-1-survey-data/

Over 30% of South Koreans see job creation and economic recovery as the government's top priority for 2025, with trust in national institutions rising sharply, according to the latest NBS survey.
#YonhapInfomax #JobCreation #EconomicRecovery #NBS #GovernmentTrust #SurveyData #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=97159

South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission reports improved subcontracting payment practices, but a rising share of suppliers face losses from technology theft, with over half taking no action.
#YonhapInfomax
#FairTradeCommission #Subcontracting #TechnologyTheft #PaymentPractices #SurveyData
#Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=96799

Franchisee satisfaction with suppliers in South Korea has declined for the fourth consecutive year, while reports of unfair trade practices have risen, according to a KFTC survey covering 21 industries and 50,000 franchisees.
#YonhapInfomax #KFTC #FranchiseeSatisfaction #UnfairTradePractices #SurveyData #SupplierSalesShare #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=96502

The Bank of Korea finds that 62.8% of market participants view its three-month rate outlook as conditional, while 72% express concerns about widening gaps if forward guidance is extended, highlighting the need to balance policy credibility and flexibility.
#YonhapInfomax #BankOfKorea #RateOutlook #ForwardGuidance #PolicyCredibility #SurveyData #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=95566

📢 20 November: Meet the Experts – PIAAC 2023 (Germany)
@GESIS presents the new German PIAAC Scientific Use File. The session introduces key variables, documentation, and methodological features (structure, missing scheme, weighting concept, plausible values) and highlights differences between Cycles 1 and 2 relevant for trend analysis.
An opportunity to discuss questions directly with the PIAAC team.

#GESIS #PIAAC2023 #SurveyData #ResearchData

A Bank of Korea survey reveals that 70% of South Korea’s young STEM professionals in their 20s and 30s are considering overseas employment, citing low compensation and a weak research ecosystem, prompting calls for urgent policy reforms to retain top talent.
#YonhapInfomax #BankOfKorea #STEMTalent #OverseasEmployment #Compensation #SurveyData #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=88863

Kyobo Life Insurance has launched South Korea’s first MyData-based retirement planning simulation service, enabling users to view and project pension assets in one app, as survey data highlights insufficient retirement preparation among those in their 40s and 50s.
#YonhapInfomax #KyoboLifeInsurance #RetirementPlanning #MyData #PensionAssets #SurveyData #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=85752

More than half of South Koreans oppose responding to US demands for cash-based investment in ongoing tariff talks, according to a nationwide survey, highlighting public skepticism over direct capital outflows amid economic concerns.
#YonhapInfomax #USInvestment #TariffNegotiations #SouthKorea #PublicOpinion #SurveyData #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=84538

Measuring the Unmeasurable? Systematic Evidence on Scale Transformations in Subjective #SurveyData https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp18029&r=&r=hap
"The relationship between the ‘cost’ of deviating from #linearity and the risk of sign reversal is, as one might expect, concave. Approximately 20% of results published in leading economic journals are reversed with some transformation that has a plausible cost. Restricting ourselves to interpreting wellbeing data as merely ordinal (i.e. allowing for any departure from linear scale use), increases this share to about 60%.
… Turning to relative magnitudes, we focus on unemployment and income as key determinants studied across multiple papers in our database. While coefficient signs for these are fairly robust, their relative magnitudes are highly sensitive to scale use assumptions. Marginal rates of substitution between unemployment and income can vary by an order of magnitude under plausible deviations from linearity.
… #statisticalInference and estimates of relative effect magnitudes become unreliable, even under modest departures from linearity. This is especially problematic for policy applications. We show that these concerns generalise to many other widely used survey-based constructs."
#ordinalMeasures #LikertScale #economics

📕 New paper by CPC-CG's Vincent Ramos 👇

Examines #childbearing decisions in societies experiencing declining #birthrates - how might worries about #caring for #ageing parents and job insecurity affect expectations around starting a #family?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11113-025-09969-9

#demography #socialsciences #fertility #familyplanning #experimentalsurvey #Germany #surveydata

#Call #ResearchProposals #WebTracking #SurveyData #GESISPanel

Collect Your Own Linked Web Tracking and Survey Data with the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample

In the recently established GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample, panelists participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections such as web tracking, where participants' web browsing behavior (including the content of website visits) is recorded.

President Lee Jae-myung’s approval rating has climbed to 65%, while support for the People Power Party has dropped below 20%, according to the latest NBS survey.
#YonhapInfomax #ApprovalRating #LeeJaeMyung #PeoplePowerParty #NBS #SurveyData #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=71558

#dataquality #Surveydata #digitalbehavioraldata #linkeddatasources
Official launch of the #KODAQS #Toolbox in July 2025

The KODAQS Toolbox is a new, open platform for assessing and improving data quality in the social sciences. It supports researchers in systematically reflecting on the quality of their data - along three central data types: Survey data, digital behavioral data (e.g. app or sensor data) and linked data sources (e.g. register and geospatial data).
https://kodaqs-toolbox.gesis.org/

#R #surveydata #qualityindicators
New R-package out now!

"resquin" (response quality indicators) provides functions to calculate survey data quality indicators to help identifying low-quality responses. resp_styles() and resp_distributions() provide response quality indicators geared towards multi-item scales or matrix questions.

By Matthias Roth, Nivedita Bhaktha, Matthias Bluemke, Thomas Knopf, Fabienne Krämer, Clemens Lechner, and Çağla Yildiz

Check it out!
https://matroth.github.io/resquin/

#Call for Research Proposals: Collect Your Own Linked #WebTracking and #SurveyData with the New GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample:
Participate in repeated surveys and digital behavioral data collections within the GESIS Panel.dbd.

https://www.gesis.org/forschung/tagungen-und-konferenzen/details/article/call-for-research-proposals-collect-your-own-linked-web-tracking-and-survey-data-with-the-new-gesis-paneldbd-digital-behavioral-data-sample

Ouch! #surveydata
http://justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com/2024/04/invent-your-own-research.html?utm_source=pocket_mylist

📋 Good news! Following the #UKGGSLaunch in January, the UK #Generations and #Gender #Surveydata are now available from the #UKDataService: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9247

Watch the UK GGS video explainer to learn more about the data and uses https://youtu.be/XobC2RoXnp0

#GenderRoles #FamilyLife #Marriage #HealthData
#Childbearing #FamilyPlanning #Abortion #EconomicConditions #EconomicIndicators