CURRICULUM VITAE

Department of Sociology

University of Tartu

Box No. 8

Post Office

Tartu EE50410

Estonia

PHONE:   37-27-375925

FAX:     37-27-375900

March 5, 1961

Rakvere, Estonia

Tartu University, Faculty of Economics, Speciality Economical Cybernetics

1979-1984

Tartu University, Postgraduate Studies, Sociology 1986-1989
 
 

Main Positions:

1992-Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Tartu University

1984-Engineer and Researcher, Department of Sociology, Tartu University

Main Empirical Experience:

Paths of a Generation in the Soviet Union:

Longitudinal study started 1983-1985 from representative samples of 

secondary school graduates in 16 regions of USSR, 60,000 respondents;

Second wave in 1988-1991, 16 regions 40,000 respondents;

Third wave in 1992-1994, 13 regions in 6 countries;



Estonian Students in the Changing Society: Study of Estonian University Students, 1400 respondents, 1990;

Secondary School Students in the Conditions of the Transition to a  Market



Economy: 1900 respondents, 1992;

Young Professionals, Estonian University Graduates of 1992, in the Labor Market: 900 respondents, 1994.

Methodology of sociology 

Using computers in sociological research 

Statistical methods in sociology

Material conditions of youth

Youth problems

"Yliopilaste sissetulekud" (in Estonian, Income of the Students). 

In Kenkmann, P. (ed.), Yliopilane 1990. Eesti yliopilaskonna sotsioloogiline

iseloomustus. (Student 1990: Sociological Characterization of Estonian Students).

Tartu: Tartu University Press, 1992.



"Vanematekodu aineline olukord" (in Estonian, Material Situation of Students' Parental Home) 

In Eesti noored 92 : aruanne EV Kultuuri- ja Haridusministeeriumile

(Estonian Youth 1992: Report to Ministry of

Culture and Education). Tartu 1992.