Data Harmonization

Data harmonization at all levels

For many research projects and infrastructure tasks, it is necessary to be able to combine data from different sources. Here, the comparability of data across time, countries, survey programs, and measurement instruments must be established and often subsequently improved. GESIS offers comprehensive consulting services and various resources to help you improve the comparability of existing data.

Furthermore, we continuously work to advance methods in the context of data harmonization and to offer new data products. We are open to cooperation requests in these topics.

Our services and tools for your data harmonization

Our tools help you create latent data comparability constructs from the largest survey programs.

GESIS microcensus trend file

With the SPSS routines from GESIS, the surveys of the microcensus from 1962 to 2016 can be harmonized and cumulated - for long-term and in-depth analyses of social change in (West) Germany.

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QuestionLink

QuestionLink's recoding scripts can be used to compare instruments from selected survey programs on latent concepts such as interest, attitudes or values.

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Harmonized data - our cumulations

Our research data centers bundle several waves of a survey program and make them available as cumulations or trend files.

ALLBUS Cumulations

The ALLBUS cumulation contains harmonized time series for all data collected at least twice in the ALLBUS overall programme. This makes it particularly suitable for analyzing time series in studies of social change.

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Eurobarometer Trendfiles

The Eurobarometer is a long-term survey program of the European Commission and the European Parliament with several sub-series. We provide several data cumulations for the comparative analysis of trends.

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ISSP Cumulations

We offer cumulative data sets for the ISSP module topics "Role of Government", "National Identity", "Religion", and "Social Inequality". They comprise up to five waves and contain data from all ISSP member countries that have participated in the module at least twice.

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Survey Methodology Consulting

Do you need further advice on survey methodology? Our experts will be happy to advise you personally and individually on topics relating to weighting, the imputation of missing values, non-response analysis and the harmonization of content instruments and socio-structural characteristics.

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