Institute of Sociology
of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Kornilova M.V. Innovations and risks in monitoring of level and quality of life of older Muscovites: analysis of materials focus-group discussion. Vestnik NSUEM. 2017. No. 1. P. 267–281.



Kornilova M.V. Innovations and risks in monitoring of level and quality of life of older Muscovites: analysis of materials focus-group discussion. Vestnik NSUEM. 2017. No. 1. P. 267–281.
ISSN 2073-6495
РИНЦ: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=28910962

Posted on site: 05.05.17

Abstract

The article has a methodological focus. The author analyzes problems and prospects of the organization and conduct of a new phase of monitoring the level and quality of life of older residents. Analyzed, evaluated, summarized the opinions of experts about the desirability of changing the sampling frequency, handling of instrumentation, changes in the organizational structure of monitoring. Assessment professionals involved in the focus discussion, and the moderator (the author) based on their personal 5-year experience of participation in research. Offering your own ideas and discussing innovations, initiated by the organizers, the panelists outlined some of the risks that may arise during updating of the survey and searching respondents for the specified parameters and during attracting new categories of interviewers. The article summarizes and comment on the types of methodological risks, which may occur in the process of implementation of innovations in the organizational structure of the monitoring of social indicators the level and quality of life of older residents.