Welcome to GESIS - your infrastructure for empirical social research
Collecting and analyzing digital behavioral data
The inclusion of digital behavioral data adds new exciting and illuminating facets to social science research. Digital behavioral data are complementing surveys and helping to complete the picture of society. GESIS is tackling this development with new methods and services.
GESIS AppKit
With the GESIS AppKit you can collect smartphone-based survey and sensor data.
GESIS Web Tracking
GESIS Web Tracking is our research software for recording browser-based online behavior.
GESIS Panel DBD
The GESIS Panel Digital Behavioral Data Sample is the new sample in the GESIS Panel cosmos and combines online surveys with web tracking data.
Methods Hub
The Methods Hub offers tested tools, methods, code and more for analyzing digital behavioral data.
GESIS Web Data
We collect digital behavioral data, particularly from social media platforms, on current topics and make it available to you.
More data quality
- by the Competence Center for Data Quality in the Social Sciences KODAQS
KODAQS supports the quality-assured handling of data and provides researchers with innovative tools and comprehensive training opportunities. In addition to the survey data that is still predominantly used, this also includes digital behavioral data and the linking of this data with geodata, for example.
The KODAQS Academy...
... teaches theoretical and practical data science skills for evaluating the quality of different types of data and their analyses.
The KODAQS Toolbox...
... offers practical tools to independently check and improve the quality of survey data, digital behavioral data and linked data.
Guest research stays
Through the guest research stays, we promote young scientists and their research on data quality in the social sciences.
Questionnaire development
We help you to find suitable and evaluated measuring instruments or to create them yourself:
ZIS
The ZIS repository makes social and behavioral science measurement instruments available for reuse free of charge. All instruments are quality-assured and described in detail.
Cognitive Pretesting
In cognitive pretests, we check whether items are comprehensible and whether they are interpreted by the respondents as intended.
Survey Quality Prediction SQP
The Survey Quality Predictor (SQP) is a web-based open-access software for estimating the measurement quality of items. You can also use SQP to search for items for your survey project.
Even more data, methods and information
We live Open Science and share our data and our knowledge of social science methods in various formats.