Research Program
Independent research is the basis for competent scientific services and facilities for knowledge transfer. This is why research in the social sciences has a long tradition at GESIS of relying on official microdata. The tradition dates back to 1987 when the Scientific Advisory Board at the GESIS Center for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA) recommended establishing a center for official microdata.
Research subjects can loosely be categorized into processing of content-based and methodological questions. Projects on methodological aspects of official data, for instance, include contributions on sampling errors in the microcensus or on harmonization of available Scientific Use Files (SUFs) in the microcensus. In recent years, another specialist focus of methodological research has been testing sampling selectivity of the microcensus panel which was studied with reference to the example of issues relating to educational statistics. The special focus of content-based research include social structure analysis as well as analyses on change of households and families.
Our research projects
Methodical Projects
Development of Microdata Tools
Data Quality and Sampling
Data Access and Metadata
- Service Center for Microdata
Content based projects
Household and Family
- Time Use of Children and Adolescent
- Same-Sex Partnering in Germany - Prevalence, Trends and Social Conditions
- Childcare in Europe
- Change of Lifestyles
- Concepts of Living Arrangements and Family in the Microcensus
- Family, Social Structure, Partner Choice
- Higher Qualifications for Women and Social Differentiation between Households
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Do personality traits have an influence on the repartnering tendency after divorce?
Education
- Comparative Analyses on Advanced Vocational and Professional Training with Microcensus Data
- Education Research and Educational Inequality
Poverty
Employment
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The Gender Gap in Workplace Authority in a European Comparison
- Working Time Models of Couples with Children
- East - West Comparison: Ostdeutsche Genossenschaftsbauern - Westdeutsche Landwirte. Agrarische Lebensweisen im Vergleich
Migration
- Ethnic Segregation
- Marital Patterns of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Germany
- Immigrants in the Education System
- Education qualifications and labor market success of ethnic minorities: The Case of Germany
- Determinants of labor market positioning of Migrants and German and the Measuring of Labor Market Success