PIAAC data
National and international scientific and public use files of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies PIAAC.
GESIS is part of national and international consortia of archives and data networks, it participates in the development of international standards, and it makes important German data collections available to the international research community and vice versa.
German researchers have access via GESIS to all datasets provided by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research in Ann Arbor Michigan (USA) or to various weakly anonymised data in a saferoom within the framework of the IDAN network.
In CESSDA, GESIS is the national data service provider for Germany and involved in the CESSDA workpackages, with the aim of enabling excellent social science research, increasing data availability, and facilitating the reuse of archived data.
The ISSP is a cross-national collaborative program. Since 1984, it has conducted a joint annual survey on topics of relevance to the social sciences. It is currently fielded in about 50 countries. The various modules are repeated every ten years, thus allowing comparative analyses across time and countries.
Commissioned by the European Commission, the Eurobarometer surveys have been monitoring public opinion in the European Union since the early 1970s. The survey series Standard Eurobarometer is conducted twice a year and ask for attitudes towards important European topics, complemented by measurements for general socio-political orientations. The Special Topic Eurobarometer is conducted intermittently and address current topics such as environment, technology, health, or family issues.
The European Values Study (EVS) is a large-scale, crossnational, repeated cross-sectional survey research programme on basic human values. Conducted at nine-year intervals since 1981, the surveys provide insights into the ideas, beliefs, preferences, attitudes, values, and opinions of citizens throughout Europe since 1981.
Since 1980, representative cross-sectional samples of the German population have been surveyed at regular two-year intervals, using constant and variable questions. ALLBUS is a substantively rich and methodologically sophisticated database which can be used for a variety of analytical purposes:
For election and political research, GESIS offers long-standing German and international study programs on elections and electoral systems. These are curated by our research data centers and are prepared for research across time and national borders.
As the largest German national election study, GLES has been observing and analyzing the electorate since the national election in 2009. The study is characterized by a complex research design with nine components, which are linked by a uniform core questionnaire.
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems CSES contains post-election surveys in around 40 countries since 1996, conducted since 1996 every five years.
The European Election Studies (EES) offer data about electoral behaviour since 1979 in European Parliament elections.
Monitoring of Facebook and Twitter posts in the German federal election campaigns 2013, 2017, and 2021.
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Semantically annotated corpus of tweets related to the COVID-19 pandemic from October 2019 onwards.
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A dataset of raw tweets collected between February 17 and March 3, 2022, produced by 2.3 million individual user accounts.
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The following is a selection of international data collections from the almost 7,000 German and international studies that are available at GESIS available for secondary analysis: