General Population Survey of Social Sciences (ALLBUS)
GESIS, Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
- 61.194 respondents in 24 years
- keywords: attitude, behavior, social structure and social change in Germany, attitude towards ethnic groups
- since 1980, updated every 2 years
- access: registration required
- www.gesis.org/en/allbus/download/
DeutschlandTrend
GESIS, Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
- approximately 1000 respondents per wave
- reporting on the current political opinion in Germany
- 2008-2019, updated monthly
- access: download access class A free, access class B and C are subject to charges, C data only with written permission
- www.gesis.org/en/elections-home/other-surveys/
Ethics Monitor
Hamburg Foundation for Economic Ethics
German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES)
GESIS, Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
- cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys
- keywords: response of the electorate on complex constellations of electoral policy, analysis of TV duels, content analysis of media coverage, electoral research
- since 2009, update to the federal elections (2009, 2013, 2017)
- access: registration required
- www.gesis.org/en/elections-home/gles/
German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
- 30.000 respondents in 11.000 households
- keywords: residential situations, education, income, life satisfaction, health
- since 1984, updated annually
- access: data user agreement
- www.diw.de/en/soep
German Survey on Volunteering (FWS)
German Centre of Gerontology (DZA)
- approximately 15.000 telephone surveys on volunteering as well as surveys about questions of aging
- keywords: content, scope, context and motives of voluntary commitment, donation, willingness to volunteer as well as work and retirement, family, health and quality of life
- 1999-2019, updated every 5 years
- survey about age discrimination during the corona pandemic 2020
- access: data user agreement
- https://www.dza.de/en/research/fdz
Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
- labor market statistics
- keywords: employment, unemployment, employment promotion, minimum wage, professional statistics, labor market barometer, migration and integration, temporary work
- since 1967
- access: IAB data via homepage, FDZ data only with data user contract
- www.iab.de/en/daten.aspx
Opinion polls on various topics
Kantar, EMNID
- numerous empirical studies with different topics
- keywords: politics, economics, daily life, fashion, children, youth, health, nutrition, environment, science, religion, energy, digital media
- since 1947
- access: via homepage
- https://www.kantar.com/expertise/analytics
Politbarometer
GESIS, Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
- 495.558 respondents
- opinions and attitudes of the germans to current events, parties and politicians
- since 1977, updated monthly
- access: download access class A free, access class B and C are subject to charges
- www.gesis.org/en/elections-home/politbarometer/
Psychdata
Leibniz center for psychological information and documentation (ZPID)
- data sharing platform for research data in psychology
- keywords: clinical, educational, developmental, social, personality and cognitive psychology
- since 1984
- access: research data only with data user agreement
- www.psychdata.de/?main=search&sub=browse&lang=eng
Research Data Center of the Federal Statistical Office
- microdata from over 100 official statistics
- statistics from the fields of sociology, economics, agriculture, finance, tax, law, energy, environment
- access: micro data only with data user agreement
- www.forschungsdatenzentrum.de/en/index.asp
Studies on Federal State Elections
GESIS, Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
GESIS, Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
European Election Studies (EES)
GESIS, Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
European Values Study (EVS)
GESIS, Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
Generations and Gender Programme (GGP)
- longitudinal study of 18-79 year olds in 19 countries
- keywords: fertility, partnership, transition to adulthood, economic activity, need of care, intergenerational relations
- access: registration required
- www.ggp-i.org/data
International Affective Picture System (IAPS)
Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention (CSEA)
- standardized database with 1800 photographs
- keywords: emotional research, standardization by psychologists, assessment of valence, excitement and dominance
- 2005
- access: registration by a faculty adviser required
- www.csea.phhp.ufl.edu/media.html
International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)
GESIS, Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
- data from 50 countries
- keywords: work orientation, environment, religion, social inequality, state and government
- since 1984, updated annually
- access: registration required
- www.gesis.org/en/issp/home
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- various studies and data sets
- keywords: engineering, aging, criminal justice, drug abuse, terrorism, health, censuses, urban research, education, politics, legal systems, geography, organizational behavior
- since 1962
- access: registration required
- www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/ICPSR/
Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)
GESIS, Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
- study with about 5.000 respondents in 24 countries
- keywords: literacy competence, technology-solved problem solving, centralized individual data
- 2011-2012
- access: PIAAC data records: registration and data user contract required, download variable reports and questionnaires without login
- www.gesis.org/en/piaac/rdc/
The European Commision`s Eurobarometer Surveys
GESIS, Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences
- about 1.000 respondents per EU member state
- keywords: social situation, integration of minorities, health, culture, information technology, environmental protection, military operations, euro, European integration, politics, EU institutions
- since 1973, updated every 6 months
- access: via homepage
- www.gesis.org/eurobarometer-data-service/home/
UK Data Archive
- various data sets
- keywords: aging, crime, education, environment and energy, ethnicity, eating, health, communication, labor, politics, poverty
- since 1971
- access: online, download after registration
- www.data-archive.ac.uk/find
World Values Survey (WVS)
- about 92.000 surveys in 62 countries
- keywords: values, happiness, family, work, religion, politics, society
- since 1981, updated every 9 years
- access: download after registration
- www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp