Netherlands Institute for Social Research

2 total works

Using Smartphones in Survey Research: A Multifunctional Tool

by Nathalie Sonck and Henk Fernee

Published 30 January 2014

Using smartphones and apps are innovative ways of collecting data among the public. The Netherlands Institute for Social Research SCP was involved in one of the first experiments to implement a smartphone application for collecting time use. This report describes the pilot study conducted by SCP and CentERdata (University of Tilburg) in 2011-2012 in the Netherlands to test use of smartphones as a data collection method.

Perceived Discrimination in the Netherlands

by Iris Andriessen, Henk Fernee, and Karin Wittebrood

Published 30 July 2014

This book aims to chart the extent to which residents of the Netherlands perceive that they are subject to discrimination, from the perspectives of group identities, discrimination grounds, and societal domains. In addition, it highlights the consequences that people attach to their experiences. The study shows that different types of perceived discrimination are associated with different groups and are related to the way in which groups are perceived in Dutch society.