Code
01J00607
Duration
01 January 2007 → 15 January 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Social change
- Social work
- Other sociology and anthropology
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Medical and health sciences
- Public health care
- Public health sciences
- Public health services
Keywords
depression
Europe
comparative research
gender
ESS
Project description
Using data from the ESS-round 3, the prevalence of depression is estimated among a sample of women and men from 23 European countries. Depression is modelled using confirmatory factor analysis and cross-national variation in the gender ratio in depression is estimated using the most appropriate factor model. Cross-national differences in depression and in the gender gap in depression are studied from a macrosociological perspective.