Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the following session at the 8th International Conference on Social Science Methodology: Constructing Comparative Macro Data for Cross-national Survey Research Session Convenor: Christof Wolf, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences The main purpose of cross-national surveys is to enable comparisons of attitudes and behaviors of people living in different countries. In addition to the interview data collected by the surveys such an analysis usually will draw on country level data like GDP per capital, population density or life expectancy. Unfortunately, there is no standard database for these macro variables. This session invites presentations discussing specific problems one is faced with when constructing databases with comparative macro data, e.g. finding data, credibility of sources, comparability of measures, design of database, use of lagged variables etc. Equally welcome are presentations introducing relevant data collections. To propose a paper please register under: http://conference.acspri.org.au/index.php/rc33/2012/user/account?source=%2Fi... Best wishes, Christof Wolf