Browsing Social & Economic Survey Research Institute Research by Author "Wittrock , Jill"
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Annual Omnibus Survey : A survey of life in Qatar 2012
Alemadi, Darwish; Abdul Rahim, Hanan; Diop, Abdoulaye; Trung Le, Kien; Khan, Mohammad; Gengler, Justin; Badahdah, Abdallah; Al-Ansari, Majed; Tessler, Mark; Traugott, Michael; Wittrock, Jill... more authors ... less authors ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University. , 2012 , Other)This executive summary presents the highlights of the 2012 Omnibus survey, the third in a series of Omnibus surveys, carried out by the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) of Qatar University. The Omnibus ... -
Antecedents of Trust among Citizens and Non-citizens in Qatar
Diop, Abdoulaye; Jardina, Ashley; Tessler, Mark; Wittrock, Jill ( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Article)Utilizing new survey data on social capital, we examine the determinants and locus of generalized trust among citizens and immigrants in Qatar, a small, heterogeneous, wealthy, and non-democratic country in which immigrants ... -
Factors Shaping Qatari Students’ Interest in STEM, Business or Public Sector Careers
Sellami, Abdellatif; Kimmel, Linda; Hunscher, Brian; Cotter, Anna; Wittrock, Jill; Al-Emadi, Ahmed; Al-Emadi, Darwish... more authors ... less authors ( Sage Publishing , 2016 , Article)In this article we examine interest in a STEM career in Qatar not in isolation, but as one of numerous career choice options. In particular, we contrast interest in a STEM career with the culturally-relevant alternative ... -
Gender Prespecified Sampling for Cost Control
Trung Le1, Kien; Diop, Abdoulaye; Wittrock, Jill; Al-Emadi, Darwish; Elawad, Elmogiera ( Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved , 2014 , Article)Nationally representative surveys administered in the Middle East and North Africa typically are conducted using methodological techniques developed from outside the region. Sometimes these best practices require ... -
Proxy reporting in education surveys: factors influencing accurate reporting in the 2012 Qatar Education Study
Wittrock, Jill; Kimmel, Linda; Hunscher, Brian; Le, Kien Trung ( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2017 , Article)Proxy reporting is a common practice during survey data collection to increase response rates while reducing fieldwork costs, and agreement between proxies and self-reports is critical to make reliable and valid inferences. ... -
QATAR EDUCATION STUDY : Facilities Report 2012
Al-Emadi, Darwish; Al-Emadi, Ahmed; Diop, Abdoulaye; Trung Le, Kien; Kimmel, Linda; Wittrock, Jill; Zikri, Sara; Al Bloshi, Amina... more authors ... less authors ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University. , 2015 , Other)This report examines the views of students, teachers and administrators toward K-12 education in Qatar. It is based on results from the Qatar Education Study (QES), which is a series of surveys conducted by the Social ...