Finding and accessing data

No social science study without data - we offer you more than 7,000 national and international studies for secondary analysis in our data archive. The GESIS archive and the repositories are among the most comprehensive of the profession in the German-speaking world.

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To help you find the right data for you among the more than 7,400 studies and more than 546,000 variables, we have sorted them in an overview according to various criteria.

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We also provide a special service for outstanding data. We manage a number of survey programs in which GESIS participates partially in the data collection and/or permanently takes over the tasks of data preparation, archiving and provision. The special data collections are then available for further analysis.

German survey data

Here we present special German survey programs for which GESIS is responsible or in which GESIS is involved. These include

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International survey data

GESIS is also involved in international survey programs and makes them available in special collections:

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Election data

Electoral studies are one of GESIS's main data focuses. Here you will find both the German election studies

as well as European and international election studies such as the

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Digital behavioral data

In our new focus area, we collect digital behavioral data ourselves either via a sample of the GESIS panel or from social media interactions.

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Community Data

Dieser große Datenbestand beinhaltet Daten, die von der sozialwissenschaftlichen Community unserem Datenarchiv zur Verfügung gestellt wurden, damit diese im Sinne von Open Science von Forschenden sekundäranalytisch weiterverwendet werden können.

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Access to Protected Data

Some data cannot be accessed via the GESIS data search for data protection reasons, as they are more detailed and sensitive. We offer access to these specially protected data in our Secure Data Center in Cologne (survey data) as well as in our Safe Room in Mannheim (official data).

Access to further international data

GESIS offers you access to further international data and data collections:

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