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Social Indicators Research Centre

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 products of the centre are the German System of Social Indicators (and the Digital Information System Social Indicators 2.1 based on it), the European System of Social Indicators, 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.

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 Recent Information
  Social Reporting in Europe - Migration and Integration, Villa Vigoni Conference, March 16-18, 2008, “Programme and Presentations” (04/22/2008)
  1st ISA-Forum, Barcelona, September 5 - 8, 2008, Working Group “Social Indicators”, “Preliminary Programme” (02/25/2008)
  Social Indicators Information Service, No. 39 (in German). (01/25/2008)
  European System of Social Indicators (EUSI):
Now indicators and time series data available for 9 life domains.
New: 'Environment'. 		(12/19/2007)
  Social Indicators at ISA-RC33 Conference, Naples, Italy, September 1-5, 2008. Call for Papers . (11/28/2007)
  8th Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS). San Diego (USA), December 6-9, 2007. Program . (10/29/2007)
  Extensive Data Update: The German System of Social Indicators - Complete and Key Indicators 1950 - 2005 (08/01/2007)
  Programme and Presentations (in German):Subjective Well-Being and subjective Indicators of Quality of Life. Conference of the Social Indicators Section with DGS. Berlin, July 5-6, 2007. (04/25/2007)
New: Volumes 1-16 of the Social Indicators Information Service (ISI - all in German) are available for download . (01/13/2006)
  Programme and Presentations: "Subjektives Wohlbefinden und subjektive Indikatoren: Konzepte, Daten und Analysen" ("Subjective Well-Being and Subjective Indicators: Concepts, Data and Analyses"), Workshop of the Social Indicators Department. ZUMA, Mannheim, (in German). December 2-3, 2004 (11/03/2004)
  2004 ISQOLS Conference: Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World, Philadelphia, November 10-14, 2004. (02/11/2004)
  Selected readings: Social Indicators, Quality of Life, Social Reporting (09/18/2003)
  Changing Structures of Inequality: A Comparative Perspective.  
- Paperback Edition - Edited by Yannick Lemel und Heinz-Herbert Noll.

(06/10/2003)
 

Please note: Most of the Social Indicators Department's webpages have been translated to English. However, in some cases we do not offer translations. This usually applies to pages with specific German contents (e.g. pages on German-language publications). In these cases we offer links to our German pages. Please compare the Service Guide for details.  

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