On the (In)Consistency of Citizen and Municipal Level Indicators of Social Capital and Local Government Performance

Autor/in	Kampen, Jarl K.
Titel	On the (In)Consistency of Citizen and Municipal Level Indicators of Social Capital and Local Government Performance
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 97 (2010) 2, S.213-228 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-009-9498-6
Schlagwörter	Municipalities; Foreign Countries; Local Government; Social Capital; Surveys; Social Indicators; Government Role; Comparative Analysis; Belgium + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Magistrat; Ausland; Gemeindeverwaltung; Sozialkapital; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Belgien
Abstract	We study the empirical consistency of survey based (micro level) indicators of social capital and local government performance on the one, and municipality based (aggregate level) measures of these two concepts on the other hand. Knowledge about the behavior of these indicators is helpful for evaluating the value of studies carried out in isolated contexts, that is, with access to data on either, but not both, levels. The method is by comparing data collected by Statistics Belgium on Flemish municipalities, to data collected at citizen level by means of a face-to-face survey. The available evidence supplies at best a meager basis for presupposing a shared component of the indicators under study. (Contains 7 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10