We offer advice and support in all phases of the research data cycle. These range from particularly intensive project consulting for the planning and implementation of a survey project to support in research and selection of suitable data. We provide consulting services in all phases of the research data cycle and on the following topics:
| We consult individually in the following areas: | Contact |
|---|---|
| Study Planning | Survey Methodology for Study Planning |
| Questionnaire Design, Question Formulation, Development of Items and Scales, Social-structural Characteristics and Questionnaire Translation | Consulting on Survey Instruments |
| Survey Design, -implementation and -documentation, Collection of additional Data | Consulting on Survey Design and Fieldwork |
| Sample Design and Non-Probability-Samples | Consulting on Survey Statistics |
| Survey Data Management | Jonas Recker |
| Planning Studies with Trace Data from Social Media | Dr. Kathrin Weller |
| Planning own DBD Surveys with Web Tracking & Sensors | Dr. Sebastian Stier |
| We consult individually in the following areas: | Contact |
|---|---|
| Suitable data for your research question | Data Services |
| ALLBUS data | RDC ALLBUS |
| International data | RDC International Survey Programs |
| Election data | RDC Elections |
| GESIS Panel data | GESIS Panel team |
| PIAAC data | RDC PIAAC |
| Access to microcensus data | Dr. Heike Wirth |
| Access to European official data | Dr. Heike Wirth |
| Best practices for collecting existing digital behavioral data | Arnim Bleier / Dimitar Dimitrov |
| We consult individually in the following areas: | Contact |
|---|---|
| Processing and Analysis of your data | Survey Methodology Consulting for Data Analysis |
| Weighting, Imputation of Missing Values, Nonresponse-Bias-Analysis | Consulting on Survey Statistics and Data Analysis |
| Ex-post Harmonisation of Instruments and Socio-structural Characteristics | Consulting on Survey Instruments - Harmonisation |
| Processing and Documenting Data | Data Services |
| Cumulation and Integration of Data | Data Services |
| Linking with Context Data | Data Services |
| Processing and Analysing Microcensus Data | Heike Wirth |
| Processing and Analysing European Official Data | Heike Wirth |
| ALLBUS Data Processing and Analysis | RDC ALLBUS |
| ISSP Data Processing and Analysis | ISSP Data Services |
| EVS Data Processing and Analysis | EVS Data Services |
| CSES Data Processing and Analysis | CSES Data Services |
| Eurobarometer Data Processing and Analysis | Eurobarometer Data Services |
| GLES Data Processing and Analysis | GLES Team |
| Politbarometer Data Processing and Analysis | Monika Langhans |
| Election Data Processing and Analysis | RDC Elections |
| GESIS Panel Data Processing and Analysis | GESIS Panel |
| PIAAC Data Processing and Analysis | RDC PIAAC |
| Web Data Processing and Automatic Annotation | Dimitar Dimitrov, Fabian Flöck |
| Linking of Web and Survey Data | Katarina Boland, Sebastian Stier |
| Linking of Sensor-based Digital Behavioral Data (DBD) and Survey Data | Felix Bensmann |
| Questions on Notebooks and Browser-based Analysis | Arnim Bleier |
| Analysis of Protected Data | Secure Data Center |
| We consult individually in the following areas: | Contact |
|---|---|
| Data archiving and publication | Data Services |
| Repository maintenance and certification (CoreTrustSeal, data and publications) | Jonas Recker |
| Research data management | Data Services |
| Digital data archiving | Katrin Weller |
| Survey data registration | Brigitte Hausstein |
| Open access | Agathe Gebert |
| Copyright, rights of subsequent use, and secondary exploitation of publications | Agathe Gebert |
| We consult individually in the following areas: | Contact |
|---|---|
| Research data FAIRness | Peter Mutschke |
| Research data infrastructures and portals | Claus-Peter Klas |
| User-centred design of research data infrastructures | Dagmar Kern |
| Search and retrieval | Daniel Hienert / Philipp Mayr |
| Information services | Philipp Mayr |
| Repository maintenance and certification (CoreTrustSeal, data, and publications) | Jonas Recker |