Community Data

Data from the community for the community

Suitable data for analysis is often difficult to access or not sufficiently documented, which makes research more difficult and slower. Our Community Data offers access to over 5,000 German and international research data that have been specially prepared for secondary analyses and academic teaching.

Our service is constantly being expanded and includes data from six decades of social science research.

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Access to the data is free of charge. After registration, the data is available for research and teaching.

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Do you also want to share your data and make it available to the community for secondary analyses? Our data services can do this for you.

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A valuable source of data for your research

Open Science
The Community Data are handed over to GESIS by the scientific community and processed, archived and distributed by us in the spirit of Open Science for scientific reuse. The Community Data thus make an invaluable contribution to the scientific transparency and traceability of social science research.

Diverse in content & methods
The Community Data reflect the rich spectrum of content and methods of empirical social research. As a valuable resource for research and teaching, the data allow core topics of social science research to be analyzed. To simplify your search, the data is organized into topic collections and compiled in overviews of current topics. The data also reflect the diversity of social science methods. This includes classic survey data as well as digital behavioral data.

Time series and intercultural studies
The Community Data contains data from six decades of social science research. With a broad spectrum of cross-sectional, trend and panel surveys, unique analyses of changes in the attitudes and behaviors of the population are also possible across national borders.

Data set of the month

Trigger points - new inequalities, new divisions?

The survey on inequality and conflict was conducted on behalf of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in June and July 2022. The German-speaking population aged 16 and over was surveyed by telephone.

Topics: Social stratification and grouping; equality, inequality and social exclusion; minorities, economic situation and indicators, information society, environmental protection and nature conservation, political behavior and political attitudes, migration

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Data Highlights

Overviews and data portals

We have compiled data collections on current social issues in our overviews and data portals.

Covid data

The Covid pandemic showed the vulnerability but also the resilience of German society. The data collection "Corona data" provides the basis for research on the fears, attitudes and well-being of German society during the pandemic for a better understanding of future pandemic crisis situations.

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Data portal for research on racism and right-wing extremism

The data portal offers improved access to high-quality data in the research field of racism and right-wing extremism research in accordance with the FAIR principles. The topic-specific data search helps researchers to find the relevant data sets and their analysis potential.

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