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WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 95Events may have a significant bearing on social beliefs. An excellent illustraon for Poland comes from ’Rywingate’,i.e. a corrupon scandal which evolved into a polical scandal and was the main driver of change onthe Polish polical scene and considerably undermined public trust in policians in general. While it is commonlyagreed that social and polical events do shape opinions, it is sll quite problemac to decide whichones should be selected and how they should be described to enable researchers to draw conclusions aboutthe effect of such events on ESS responses. In Poland, event reports have been prepared since the first round ofthe European Social Survey. Addionally, the ESS team in Poland - as one of few teams -have prepared reportsfrom events between the ESS rounds. Those reports cover longstanding issues expected to have a significantimpact on responses in the subsequent ESS round...2.29.3 Unemployed and Alone: Unemployment and Social Parcipaon across EuropeM. Dieckhoff 2 , V. GASH 11 The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester, United Kingdom; 2 WissenschaszentruBerlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Germany2.29.4 The introducon of the euro currency in Slovakia and its reflecon in the ESS R4 dataD. Fedáková 1 , M. Kentoš 1 , J. Výrost 11 Slovak Academy of Sciences, SlovakiaThe fieldwork of the ESS round 4 started on 17 November 2008 and finished on 15 February 2009. In themiddle of the fieldwork (on 1 January 2009) Slovakia joined the eurozone. According to the survey of SlovakStascal Office 83% of Slovak cizens posively perceived the introducon of the euro currency. The ESSdata analyses were performed to show the response tendencies in selected items (e.g. media watching, trustin polical instuons, sasfacon with naonal and European parliament, subjecve well–being, perceivedcontribuon of people of different age to economy) in a three different me periods (before, during, and aerthe introducon of the new currency) to demonstrate the possible impact of the event on the responses.2.30 Measurement validity and reliability in cross-cultural comparison IITo be held on July 20, 2011 from: 14:00 to 15:30, in room 321.Coordinated by:• María-Dolores Hidalgo - University of Murcia, Spain• Jan Dietrich Reinhardt - University of Lucerne, Switzerland2.30.1 Mul groups Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Knowledge, Atude and Pracce towards UniversalPrecauon (KAP-UP) related to Blood-borne InfeconE. Fitriana 4 , Y. Suparman 6 , K. Ibrahim 1 , L. Pinxten 2 , D. Sunjaya 3 , A. Meheus 51 Padjadjaran University, Faculty o Nurse, Indonesia; 2 IMPACT, Indonesia; 3 Faculty of Medicine PadjadjaranUniversity , Indonesia; 4 Padjadjaran University , Faculty of Psychology, Indonesia; 5 University of Antwerp, Belgium;6 Padjadjaran University, Faculty of Natural Scineces, IndonesiaBackground: No study has tested a factor structure of Knowledge, Atude and Pracce towards UniversalPrecauon (KAP-UP) related to blood-borne infecon among two groups of professional health care workers.Objecves: To test the differences factor structure of KAP-UP among physicians and nurses.2.30.2 Linking qualitave assessments and quantave tesng of translated/adapted items in compara-ve surveysP. Mohler 11 University of Mannheim, Germany