Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences

＂Survey data harmonization combines survey methods, statistical techniques, and substantive theories to create datasets that facilitate comparative research. Both data producers and secondary users engage in harmonization to achieve or strengthen the comparability of answers from respondents surveyed in different populations or over time＂--

Irina Tomescu-Dubrow is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Christof Wolf is President of GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim in Germany.

Kazimierz Slomczynski is Director of Cross-National Studies at the Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program in the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Ohio State University.

J. Craig Jenkins is Academy Professor of Sociology and Senior Research Scientist at the Mershon Center for International Security at the Ohio State University.