Staff

The many faces of GESIS

Vita

Simon Börlin (né Henke) studied Sociology at the University of Mannheim and the University of Heidelberg. During his studies he was employed as a student assistant at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) where he worked in two international data collection projects (JuMi & CILS4EU). He also worked at the Chair of Sociology, Societal Comparisons (Prof. Dr. Irena Kogan) at the University of Mannheim.
After completing his master’s degree he worked as a research associate at the MZES in the project Preschool Education and Educational Careers among Migrant Children and as a teaching assistant at the Chair of General Sociology (Prof. Dr. Frank Kalter) at the University of Mannheim.
At the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Science Simon Börlin has worked in the project ILLICID – Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods in Germany. From November 2016 to April 2020 he was responsible for the service on the Microcensus Scientific Use File at the German Microdata Lab (GML) .
Since February 2020 Simon Börlin works in the BMBF-funded project „FReDA – The family demographic panel“.

Service

  • Panel management at FReDA
  • Data protection and data security at FReDA

Research

  • Data qualitiy of proxy reports

Publications

Working and discussion paper

Börlin, Simon. 2020. Einführung in die eigenständige Erstellung von Typisierungen am Beispiel des Mikrozensus Scientific Use Files 2014. GESIS Papers 2020/01. Köln: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. doi: https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.66725. https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/66725.

Börlin, Simon, and Lukas Zettl. 2020. Mikrozensus Tools: Die Klassifikation European Socio-economic Groups (ESeG) im Mikrozensus Scientific Use File. GESIS Papers 2020/08. Cologne: GESIS Papers. doi: https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.68449. https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/68449.

Data/Software

Bujard, Martin, Tobias Gummer, Karsten Hank, Franz J. Neyer, Reinhard Pollak, Norbert F. Schneider, C. Katharina Spieß, Christof Wolf, Irina Bauer, Simon Börlin, David Bretschi, Katja Brüggemann, Pablo Christmann, Rüdiger Edinger, Felicitas Eigenbrodt, Lena C. Frembs, Katharina Groß, Carolin Jost, Tanja Kunz, Emily Lines, Detlev Lück, Robert Naderi, Elias Naumann, Theresa Nutz, Anne-Sophie Oehrlein, Viktoria Oellers, Kerstin Ruckdeschel, Lisa Schmid, Almut Schumann, Nina Schumann, Annika Stein, Carolin Thönnissen, Emely Ullrich, Ellen von den Driesch, and Ulrich Weih. 2023. FReDA - The German Family Demography Panel Study (Study No. ZA7777; Data File Version 2.0.0). doi: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14065.

Bujard, Martin, Tobias Gummer, Karsten Hank, Franz J. Neyer, Reinhard Pollak, Norbert F. Schneider, C. Katharina Spieß, Christof Wolf, Irina Bauer, Simon Börlin, David Bretschi, Katja Brüggemann, Pablo Christmann, Rüdiger Edinger, Felicitas Eigenbrodt, Lena C. Frembs, Katharina Groß, Carolin Jost, Tanja Kunz, Emily Lines, Detlev Lück, Robert Naderi, Elias Naumann, Theresa Nutz, Anne-Sophie Oehrlein, Viktoria Oellers, Kerstin Ruckdeschel, Lisa Schmid, Almut Schumann, Nina Schumann, Annika Stein, Carolin Thönnissen, Emely Ullrich, Ellen von den Driesch, and Ulrich Weih. 2023. FReDA - The German Family Demography Panel Study (Study No. ZA7777; Data File Version 3.0.0). doi: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14080.

Bujard, Martin, Tobias Gummer, Karsten Hank, Franz J. Neyer, Reinhard Pollak, Norbert F. Schneider, C. Katharina Spieß, Christof Wolf, Irina Bauer, Simon Börlin, David Bretschi, Katja Brüggemann, Pablo Christmann, Lena Frembs, Katharina Groß, Carolin Jost, Tanja Kunz, Rüdiger Lenke, Emily Lines, Detlev Lück, Robert Naderi, Elias Naumann, Theresa Nutz, Anne-Sophie Oehrlein, Viktoria Oellers, Kerstin Ruckdeschel, Lisa Schmid, Almut Schumann, Nina Schumann, Annika Stein, Carolin Thönnissen, Emely Ullrich, Ellen von den Driesch, and Ulrich Weih. 2022. FReDA - The German Family Demography Panel Study (Study No. ZA7777; Data File Version 1.0.0). doi: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13745.

Presentation at a conference

Börlin, Simon. 2019. "Data Quality of Proxy Reports: Inconsistent Educational Information in the German Microcensus Panel." ESRA 2019 : 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Zagreb (Croatia), 2019-07-16. https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/programme?sess=65#654.

Börlin, Simon. 2018. "Die Datenqualität von Proxy-Interviews: Inkonsistente Bildungsangaben im Mikrozensus-Panel." 9. Nutzerkonferenz "Forschen mit dem Mikrozensus": Analysen zur Sozialstruktur und zum sozialen Wandel, 2018-11-28. https://www.gesis.org/fileadmin/upload/dienstleistung/daten/amtl_mikrodaten/gml/Mikrozensus-Nutzerkonferenz_9/05_03_Boerlin.pdf.

Becker, Birgit, Simon Henke, and Franziska Schmidt. 2015. "Can schools stop the cumulation of advantages and disadvantages? The role of primary school characteristics for the association between skills in early childhood and school performance in grade 3." ECSR Conference 2015: Cumulative Inequalities in the Life Course, 2015-09-11. http://www.tlu.ee/en/ECSR2015/programme/Conference-programme.

Becker, Birgit, Simon Henke, and Franziska Schmidt. 2015. "Können Grundschulen unterschiedliche Startvoraussetzungen kompensieren? Der Zusammenhang zwischen Fähigkeiten in der frühen Kindheit und der Schulleistung in der dritten Klasse in Abhängigkeit von Grundschulmerkmalen." Offene Jahrestagung der DGS-Sektion "Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse", 2015-10-05. http://www.soziale-ungleichheit.de/fileadmin/Tagungen/Becker_Henke_Schmidt_-_Rolle_der_Grundschule.pdf.

Presentation not at a conference

Henke, Simon. 2010. "Familiäre Entscheidungsprozesse bei türkischstämmigen Kindern am ersten Bildungsübergang." Social inequality and ethnic differentiation in education systems: Working with the BMBF-data., 2010-12-14.

Tutorial

Henke, Simon. 2014. "Grundlagen der Soziologie." HWS 2014/15: 2 SWS.

Event

Börlin, Simon. 2019. "Session I: Methods II." 6th European User Conference for EU-Microdata, 2019-03-07 - 2019-03-08.

Börlin, Simon, and Klaus Pforr. 2019. "Session: Microdata from Official Statistics." ESRA 2019: 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Zagreb (Croatia), University of Zagreb, 2019-07-19 - 2019-07-19. https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/programme?sess=34.

Börlin, Simon, and Bernhard Schimpl-Neimanns. 2018. "9. Nutzerkonferenz Forschen mit dem Mikrozensus: Analysen zur Sozialstruktur und zum sozialen Wandel." 2018-11-27 - 2018-11-28. https://www.gesis.org/angebot/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsarchiv/german-microdata-lab/9mz-nk/.

Börlin, Simon. 2018. "Session: Regionale Indikatoren." 9. Nutzerkonferenz "Forschen mit dem Mikrozensus": Analysen zur Sozialstruktur und zum sozialen Wandel, 2018-11-28. https://www.gesis.org/angebot/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsarchiv/german-microdata-lab/9mz-nk/.

Henke, Simon. 2017. "Session: Young Adulthood." 5th European User Conference for EU-Microdata, Mannheim, 2017-03-02.

Henke, Simon, and Nicole Biedinger. 2015. "Session: Surveying Precarious Topics." ESRA 2015: 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Reykjavik, 2015-07-14.