Anina Vercruyssen

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• Phil. Doctor in Sociology
• PostDoc Position at University of Antwerp

Increased life expectancy and reduced fertility mean more generations are living simultaneously but with fewer members. There is also a growing group of older people (aged 80 and over) who need care and support. This impacts mutual support within families and the care provided by public or private care organisations. Across OECD countries, on avera...

Because findings in prior research are ambiguous, it remains unclear whether and under which circumstances formal and informal support sources help older adults with their Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use. Our qualitative interview study with 96 older adults (>65, including Internet users and non-users) aims to shed light on older...

Although research already examined sociodemographic profiles of older internet (non-)users, it is unknown how combinations of sociodemographic factors relate to internet (non-)use. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the cumulative impact of sociodemographic characteristics on internet (non-)use among people aged 60 and older between 2004 and...

Since the late 20th century, a combination of sociodemographic changes and increasing costs of pensions, health and social care challenged the intergenerational welfare contract. Besides, governments have been substituting more parts of care services for informal care. Given this reality, little is known to what extent informal cares prefer a highe...

Adoption of digital technology by older adults has become an important topic in academia and the public sphere within the debate on digital inclusion. Likewise, this topic has gained traction in the print media also. This paper assesses the representation of older adults in print media in the past 20 years in The Netherlands and Flanders. A total o...

Introduction With the continuing advancement of digitalization of everyday life, digital literacy becomes more and more a necessity. As a consequence, those who are digitally illiterate experience digital exclusion, which increasingly equals social exclusion. Older adults are typically less digitally active and also less skilled in digital technolo...

Existing research on digital inclusion has shown that older adults (65+) are, in general, less digitally skilled than other age groups. While older adults can gain digital skills through ‘cold’ (formal) training by ICT instructors or through ‘warm’ (informal) support from family and friends, studies have suggested that formal training is more effec...

When everyday life becomes ever more permeated by digital technologies, many older people join ICT trainings to improve their digital skills. Given that digital skills include more than the command of technology (for instance, changing social practices) teaching ICT to people who grew up long before internet and social media can be challenging. The...

This study investigates the difference between married and divorced parents, accounting for gender and relationship status after divorce. It also provides insight into differences within the category of divorced parents. Data from 769 married and 1,424 divorced parents were analyzed using logistic regression analysis. The results identify a complex...

Through the lens of classical theory, this paper examines whether using social media (Facebook, Skype, WhatsApp, etc.) can help older people to evade loneliness. Loneliness increases the risk for depression and illness. Research shows that older people who have an active social life are healthier, more appreciated and experience higher self-esteem....

Researchers have been looking for easily accessible and easily useable paradata and auxiliary data to improve survey data. Recently, attention has also been paid to the evaluation and validation of this external data, such as the assessment of the quality of interviewer-generated paradata. For these purposes, we investigated how useful Google Stree...

Suitable auxiliary data is important in order to assess the potentially detrimental effects of nonresponse on survey estimates. Whereas sufficient individual-level auxiliary data is rarely available, aggregated data is often quite readily accessible. We investigate whether municipality-level data from official administrative registries is useful to...

Interviewer characteristics affect nonresponse and measurement errors in face-to-face surveys. Some studies have shown that mismatched sociodemographic characteristics – for example gender – affect people's behaviour when interacting with an interviewer at the door and during the survey interview, resulting in more nonresponse. We investigate the e...

In the harsh new world of global competition and in the face of new wave of technological innovation , the world of work seems to undertake continuous changes. Further, structural transformations of the economy induced and extended by economic crisis as well as demographic and labour market changes imply the emergence of new forms of employment. Ho...

Work–family balance is a frequently studied topic, often examined using survey data. Yet studies have shown that work–family imbalance can lead to survey non-response. Missing people experiencing (more) problems with juggling work and family demands in surveys on work and family life is problematic as it can lead to biased results. Therefore, it is...

Drawing a random sample for surveys from official registers is an expensive and time-consuming procedure in Belgium as in other countries. In order to obtain a sample for a study on work-family life balance amongst working mothers in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), I opted for a promising, economical procedure by first selecting chil...

‘I am too busy’ is one of the most commonly cited reasons for people not to participate in survey research. Yet, empirical data on the association between ‘busyness’ and survey participation are scarce, due to a lack of data on busyness or time pressure among the non-respondents. This article sets off with an overview of the strategies and types of...

Research on the relation between work-family conflict (WFC) and stress focuses either on domain/role-specific stress (e.g. work stress), which is by definition and, operationalisation attributed to the respective role, or it focuses on ‘general’ stress, which can be a too broad or too general concept to measure stress related to WFC. This study int...

As both time pressure (e.g., Gershuny 2005) and survey nonresponse (e.g., Curtin et al. 2005) increase in Western societies one can wonder whether the busiest people still have time for survey participation. This article investigates the relationship between busyness claims, indicators of busyness and the decline in survey participation in Flemish...

International research shows that both work–family conflict and time pressure are increasing in Western societies. With these increased pressures, precisely those people who are combining work and family obligations may be missing from survey estimates. This study investigates whether the measurement of work–family conflict (WFC) and time pressure...