Due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, the GESIS Summer School 2021 is held virtually. Short Courses: Short Course A: Introduction to Stata for Data Management and Analysis; Short Course B: Using Directed Acyclic Graphs for Causal & Statistical Inference; Short Course C: Pretesting Survey...

Across the social sciences, questions of causal inference are attracting increased attention, with researchers wanting to not only test associative hypotheses but uncover causal relationships between two or more variables. With social-science contexts often not lending themselves to classical...

The GESIS Methods Seminar 2020 will be moved online! Stay tuned for exact dates and an updated detailed schedule of our first virtual methods seminar. Es werden in drei deutschsprachigen Seminaren praxisnahe Einführungen in die uni- und bivariate Statistik und in unterschiedliche...

Sozialstrukturelle Merkmale wie Geschlecht, Familienstand, Bildung oder Erwerbstätigkeit werden in praktisch jeder Umfrage erfasst. Das Symposium richtet sich an Vertreter*innen sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfrageprogramme in Deutschland oder deutscher Teilstudien von internationalen Umfragen,...

The GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology offers high quality training in state of the art techniques and methods of survey research. It aims to: - give a broad overview of survey methods; - equip participants with essential skills in the design, planning, execution, documentation and...

The GESIS Spring Seminar (formerly ZA Spring Seminar) offers three consecutive one-week courses in advanced methods of quantitative data analysis for Social Scientists. Week 1: Fundamentals of Data Analysis with Python; Week 2: A Practical Introduction to Machine Learning in Python; Week 3:...

The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. The conference will bring together DDI users and professionals from all over Europe and the...

The course is aimed at post-graduate and senior researchers from throughout Europe, who are seeking to conduct research on the basis of the EU‐LFS. Besides highlighting the legal and administrative aspects of data access, the course will demonstrate the possibilities of the EU‐LFS in a...

The GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology offers high quality training in state of the art techniques and methods of survey research. It aims to: - give a broad overview of survey methods; - equip participants with essential skills in the design, planning, execution, documentation and...

Europe is going through turbulent times. There is increasing diversity within and between European societies in ethno-cultural, linguistic, and religious terms, or, more simply, in ways of life and prevailing values. Such diversity is arguably fostering cultural insecurity among large segments...