Social Indicators Research Centre (ZSi)
The Social Indicators Research Centre focuses on social monitoring in general with the following specific research areas: Social Indicators Research and Social Reporting, Welfare Research and Measuring Quality of Life, Social Inequality and Cross-National Comparisons.
Using the instruments of social indicators research the centre continuously monitors and analyses changes in the social structure and the development of living conditions and quality of life of the population. The main focus of these activities is the Federal Republic of Germany in international, especially in European comparison. The centre's tasks include the provision of scientific infrastructure and services. Its research activities include substantial as well as methodological issues within the field of social indicators research.
Among the most important services of the centre are the German System of Social Indicators and the European System of Social Indicators, as well as the Social Indicators Monitor - SIMon allowing comfortable access to the data from both indicator systems, the Social Indicators Information Service (ISI) and the Data Report, provided in cooperation with the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB) and the Federal Statistical Office. For more detailed information on the centre's products please refer to the detailed information or the service guide.
Recent Information | |
| Social Indicators Monitor – SIMon now online! SIMon allows comfortable access to the two systems of social indicators maintained by the Social Indicatos Research Centre (Zsi). | (08/23/2010) |
| Social Indicators Information Service, No. 44 (in German). | (08/23/2010) |
| European Social Reporting Network: News | (03/19/2010) |
| European Social Reporting: News - Conference Social Reporting in Europe 2010 | (02/25/2010) |
| RC 55 'Social Indicators' at the ISA World Congress of Sociology 2010 - Programme | (02/19/2010) |
| Social Indicators Information Service, No. 43 (in German). | (01/27/2010) |
| Social Reporting in Europe - Migration and Integration, Villa Vigoni Conference, March 16-18, 2008, “Programme and presentations” | (04/22/2008) |
| Social Reporting in Europe - Different Ways of Adding Meaning to Numbers, Villa Vigoni Conference, March 22-24, 2009, “Programme and presentations” | (03/25/2009) |
| European Social Reporting | (03/17/2009) |
| 9th Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS): “Measures and Goals for the Progress of Societies”, Florence, July 19-23, 2009. The new deadline for submission of abstracts is February 25, 2009. More information and call for papers. | (01/19/2009) |
| Information about previous events can be found in the Conference Archive. | |
| “Current Trends of Societal Development and Social Implications of the Economic Crisis”, Villa Vigoni Conference, March 14-16, 2010, Programme and Presentations | (05/10/2010) |
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