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Over the past ten years, the use of the Internet and e-mail as communication tools has become ubiquitous. In the survey arena, the rising costs of gathering data have been partly compensated by the use of the internet and e-based technologies which offer a range of new, relatively cost effective survey design and delivery options. This paper reports on two studies where Microsoft Excel was used...

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals' rankings of uncertain prospects in terms of risk and their relationship to individual preferences. We examine three interlinked propositions that are fundamental to the standard economic approach to risk: (i) that rankings by risk are simply the reverse of ranking by preferen...

Statistical machine learning methods can provide help when developing preventative services and tools that support the empowerment of individuals. We explore how the self-organizing map could be utilized as a tool for analyzing, visualizing and browsing heterogeneous survey data on wellbeing that contains both quantitative (numeric) and qualitative (text) data. There is systematic evidence impl...