Kai Rompczyk
Kai Rompczyk works as an evaluator in the DEval Community of Practice since February 2021. Previously, he was employed at the Institute for Municipal Planning and Development (IKPE) in Erfurt, where he wrote a social structure report for Thuringia and advised municipal planning professionals on social reporting and how to demonstrate the effects of local poverty prevention programmes and integration measures. He completed his master's degree in sociology in Bamberg, specializing in quantitative methods of empirical social research which included panel and multilevel analyses as well as social network analysis and methods of data collection. Subsequently, he did research on occupational gender segregation at the University of Jena using decomposition analysis. As a freelancer, he conducted surveys and data analysis in the field of social planning, family sociology, and social change.
Key qualifications
- Thematic focus
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Main research topics: social inequalities, social structure analysis, social planning
- Methods
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Quantitative Social Research Methods
Current Evaluations at DEval
Community of Practice for evaluation methods, standards and processes
Evaluations and Projects
Selected Publications:
Rompczyk, K. (2025). Technological revolution in evaluation: Artificial intelligence and the adherence to evaluation standards. Evaluation, 31(3), 331-351.
Kleinert, C., Leuze, K., Bächmann, AC., Gatermann, D., Hägglund, A.E., Rompczyk, K. (2023). Occupational Sex Segregation and its Consequences for the (Re-)Production of Gender Inequalities in the German Labour Market. In: Weinert, S., Blossfeld, G.J., Blossfeld, HP. (eds) Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories. Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment. Springer, Cham.
Rompczyk, K. (2025). Text Mining im Zusammenhang mit der Evaluation politischer Bildung. In S. Johansson & A. Prytula, Digitalgestützte Evaluation von Digitalprojekten der politischen Bildung: „Ein Klick ist nicht gleichbedeutend mit produktiver Auseinandersetzung“ (PrEval Studie 5/2025, S. 69–72). PRIF – Leibniz-Institut für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung.
Fischer, J., Kretzschmar, J. und Rompczyk, K. (2020), “Sozialplanung in der Corona-Pandemie. Eine empirische Untersuchung im Freistaat Thüringen zu den Funktionen und Abläufen in Krisenzeiten”, Sozialmagazin, Vol. 45, No. 9 – 10, S. 90-97.
Helbig, M., Frank, L., Huber, S., Rompczyk, K., und Salomo, K. (2020), Zweiter Sozialstrukturatlas für den Freistaat Thüringen mit der Fokussierung auf Armut und Armutsprävention in Thüringen. Thüringer Ministerium für Arbeit, Soziales, Gesundheit, Frauen und Familie, Erfurt.
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