Fieldwork organisation

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Fieldwork organisation

Benefit s of gender equality th rough infrastruct ure provision: an EU-wid e survey15

3. Fieldwork organisation

Organisation of the eldwork was designed in

two phases, A and B.

Phase A grouped all Member States into clus-

ters. Iacovous fourfold grouping (Iacovou,

2004, 2010) was used, including Croatia, Malta,

Romania and Bulgaria.

1) Northwestern: Austria, Belgium, France, Ger-

many, Ireland, Luxembourg and United King-

dom.

2) Southern: Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy,

Malta, Portugal and Spain.

3) Eastern: Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary,

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovenia

and Slovakia.

4) Nordic: Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and

Sweden.

The sampling error was 1.4 % and the sample

size 5 378. All eldwork contractor companies

conducted a sur vey with the sample size indi-

cated in Table 1 below.

Tab le 1. Sample size for Phase A, by Member State and cluster

Cluster

Member State

Member State

population

2014

Member State

population as

percentage of

total

Cluster

population

2014

Cluster

population as

percentage of

total

Sample

Sampling error

Sample in

cluster (EU-28)

Final sample in

cluster (EU-28)

Northwestern

AT 8 507 7861.69

233 387 64446.29 2 3132.1

84 84

BE 11 203 9922.22 111 111

FR 63 928 60 812.68 632 632

DE 80 780 0 0016.02 799 803

LU 54 9680.01 5 5

IE 4 604 0290.91 46 46

UK 64 308 26112.76 636 636

Southern

HR 4 246 70 00.84

133 383 26026.46 1 3282.7

42 42

CY 858 0.00 8 8

EL 10 992 5892.18 109 109

IT 60 782 6 6812.06 601 601

MT 425 3840.08 4 4

PT 10 427 3012.07 103 105

ES 46 507 7609.23 460 460

Eastern

BG 7 245 6771.44

99 813 19019.80 1 1123.0

81 81

CZ 10 512 4192.09 117 117

HU 9 879 00 01.96 110 110

EE 1 315 8190.26 15 15

LV 2 001 4 680.40 22 22

LT 2 943 47 20.58 33 33

PL 38 495 6597.64 429 430

RO 19 942 6423.96 222 222

SK 5 415 9491.07 60 60

SI 2 061 0850.41 23 23

Nordic

NL 16 829 2893.34

37 552 6587.45 625 4.0

280 280

DK 5 627 2351.12 94 94

FI 5 451 2701.08 91 91

SE 9 64 4 8641.91 161 161

Total of EU

Member States504 136 752505 488 6065 3781.4 5 3785 385

Source: Euro stat Populati on 2014 (as of 15 Septe mber 2014)