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Data Service & Archiving

Data - Retrieval & Downloads
Studies - Order & Consultation
Studies - Archiving & Consultation
ALLBUS
GDR & new Federal States
Politbarometer
Election Studies
IAB Employees Sample
Eurobarometer
European Values Study
ISSP
Eastern Europe
Topical Study Pools
Historical Social Research

Social Monitoring

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Data Service & Archiving

Following online resources are part of the services at the GESIS-ZA and the GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe. The individual user advise also offers support to all questions concerning data selection and its use at secondary analysis.

Data - Retrieval & Downloads

Deutsche Seite - Datenservice

  • Data Holding Catalogue - Search the study descriptions of the complete data holding
  • Qbase - Search codebooks and original questionnaires of selected data collections
  • ZACAT - GESIS-ZA Online Study Catalogue - Browse, analyse & download survey data like ISSP, Eurobarometer, EVS, on German elections, from Eastern Europe, on Youth & Adults (registration free of charge)
  • CodebookExplorer Internet version - Browse studies or trends, search for keyword or analyse and download data on studies from selected databases (registration free of charge)
  • ALLBUScompact Download for scientific research, training & teaching
  • ALLBUS full version - Download for personal scientific research (registration free of charge)
  • HISTAT DB - Historical Statistics Online (in German - registration free of charge)
  • Library 'Empirische Sozialforschung' - e.g. literature related to archived studies
  • CESSDA Data Portal (external link - Council of European Social Science Data Archives) - Access to studies & datasets from 13 social science data archives across Europe
  • IFDOnet (external link - International Federation of Data Organizations for the Social Science) - Access to data sources of the international archive network

Studies and Data - Order & Consultation

Studies and Data - Archiving & Consultation - Processing

The following data pools, which thematically and methodologically form a unified programme, are offered by the GESIS-ZA as special data collections together with complete documentation:

German study collections

  • ALLBUS - Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften - German General Social Survey
  • GDR - new federal states - Studies from the GDR (since 1968) and the new federal states
  • Politbarometer - Political barometer - Carried out monthly under contract with the ZDF by the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen (Election study group)
  • Election studies - a significant part of the data holdings of the GESIS-ZA
  • IAB - Sample Survey of the Employed
    Employment statistics collected from the employees registered with the social security office by their employers

International study collections

  • Eurobarometer - survey series of the European Commission
  • EVS - European Values Study
  • ISSP - International Social Survey Programme
  • Eastern Europe - different data pools with studies from Eastern European countries

Topical study pools by GESIS-ZA categories

Historical social research

 

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