Die Schwerpunktinitiative "Digitale Forschungsinformation" der „Allianz der deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen" wurde 2008 ins Leben gerufen mit dem Ziel, die Informationsversorgung in Forschung und Lehre zu verbessern. Im Mittel¬punkt stehen die Handlungsfelder (1) Lizenzierung, (2) Open...

Research on internal migration covers a wide range of issues with regard to the reasons, distance and direction of moves as well as the process of decision-making. Given the rich field of relevant research objectives and the substantial developments in migration theory it is apparent that the...

This contribution shows the increasing supply on German micro data over the last years for labor market research. We focus on the research data centre movement, the development of new anonymisation techniques for establishment data, the new challenges of the social code II and the fundamental...

Dieses Papier gibt einen Überblick über Fragen des Datenschutzes und der Forschungsethik für Sozialwissenschaftler und Wissenschaftler anderer Disziplinen, die sozialwissenschaftlich arbeiten. Das Papier kann als Grundlage für Lehrmodule im Bereich Datenschutz und der Forschungsethik benutzt...

Over the last years, political and scientific debates have stressed the growing importance of adult education. Currently important research questions call not only for data sources that collect detailed information on adult education with repeated measurements and in different cohorts, but they...

Despite the obvious existence of civil society organizations (CSOs) and forms of civic engagement, the data available for this sector remains inadequate. This expert report provides a comprehensive view of the current data situation, reveals existing gaps, and offers suggestions on how these...

This article discusses the use of enterprise- and establishment-level data from official statistics to document stylized facts, to motivate assumptions used in formal theoretical models, to test hypotheses derived from theoretical models, and to evaluate policy measures. It shows how these data...

Modern societies depend on the successful and comprehensive provision of skills, and receiving vocational training in any form has been experienced by a majority of the population in younger cohorts. There has therefore been a constant demand for timely information about the various forms of...

This paper evaluates the German, UK, and US approaches to dealing with research ethics in the social sciences. It focuses 1) on the extent to which these research ethic frameworks protect the key rights of research subjects and 2) the extent to to which they take into account the methodology and...

Access to sensitive micro data should be provided using remote access data enclaves. These enclaves should be built to facilitate the productive, high-quality usage of microdata. In other words, they should support a collaborative environment that facilitates the development and exchange of...