Phase 4: Data analysis

You require unique, specific methods to analyze your data or draw upon other data sources for comparison? We offer consultation, make data available for secondary analysis or for reference and also offer a special data service.

Studies often contain various different types of data, requiring special knowledge beyond the usual methodological know-how. The newly collected data is usually compared with results from other studies to obtain an overall, complete picture of the research subject. We offer consultation and support for your data and reference data analysis as well as during the secondary analysis.

Consultation

Consultation

Survey data for secondary analysis:

Survey data for secondary analysis:

Our main data topics are comprehensively prepared and thus particularly well suited for all secondary analysis:

Official microdata service:

Official microdata service:

Easy to use and clearly organized metadata searches and more in the microdata system MISSY as well as microdata tools for further data processing.

Historical social research data

Historical social research data

Historical microdata, time series, collective biographies and studies with macrodata can be found in the data inventory of the GESIS archived historical studies.

Social indicators:

Social indicators:

Online information with social indicators as well as detailed information on development of German and European societies of the last decades.

Software:

Software:

  • TEXTPACK: Program for computer-aided text and content analysis
  • NSDstat: Easy to use statistics program for exploratory data analysis