Chapter 1 Surveying Human Vulnerabilities Across the Life Course: Balancing Substantive and Methodological Challenges

Chapter 2 Representation of Vulnerability and the Elderly. A Total Survey Error Perspective on the VLV Survey

Chapter 3 Adapting Quantitative Survey Procedures: The Price for Assessing Vulnerability? Lessons from a Large-Scale Survey on Aging and Migration in Switzerland

Chapter 4 Vulnerability Following a Critical Life Event: Temporary Crisis or Chronic Distress? A Psychological Controversy, Methodological Considerations, and Empirical Evidence

Chapter 5 A Survey of Couples Facing Breast Cancer in Women

Chapter 6 Career Pathways and Professional Transitions: Preliminary Results from the First Wave of a 7-Year Longitudinal Study

Chapter 7 How to Survey Displaced Workers in Switzerland: Ways of Addressing Sources of Bias

Chapter 8 Using Life History Calendars to Survey Vulnerability

Chapter 9 Studying Youth Transitions Through a Social Network: First Impressions

Chapter 10 Attrition in the Swiss Household Panel: Are Vulnerable Groups more Affected than Others?