CESSDA

Data Catalogue

The CESSDA Data Catalogue contains the metadata of all data in the holdings of CESSDA's service providers. It is a one-stop-shop for search and discovery, enabling effective access to European social science research data.

Data Management Expert Guide

This guide is designed by European experts to help social science researchers make their research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.

Training

The CESSDA Training website provides a collection of resources and events for learning about the management, preservation and distribution of research data.

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About us

The CESSDA Strategy 2018-2022 has four pillars:

Building on TRUST
Renown for TRAINING
Proficient in TECHNOLOGY
User-friendly TOOLS & SERVICES

NEWS

Oct

COVID-19 Interview series – Political elections – Bernt Aardal

In light of the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, we are launching a new series of interviews. These interviews are targeted at researchers and we aim to focus on a specific topic each time, hearing from a top researcher in the field to gain insight into the current situation.

Sep

Study shows active use of data from CESSDA Finnish Archive FSD across research fields

A recent study at Tampere University examined data downloads from the Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD). The results show that the data archived at FSD are actively reused and that data citation practices are improving.

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FEEDS

20 Oct 2020 (Data Impact Blog)

Assigning the appropriate level of protection to longitudinal survey data

15 Oct 2020 (GESIS)

The sum and its parts: The benefits of combining data from different surveys

15 Oct 2020 (GESIS)

Adventures in ex-post harmonization: Frankenstein’s Creature

UPCOMING EVENTS

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22 Oct 2020 - 23 Oct 2020

COVID-19 Data Dive: Exploring the social and economic impacts of the pandemic

The UK Data Service has organised a free, two-day Data Dive as part of the rapid research response to the pandemic. By bringing together major social, economic and population studies in a single place, this event provides an opportunity for researchers, policy and charity experts to collaborate and draw out critical questions about the impacts of the pandemic that will need to be addressed in the future.

22 Oct 2020

Webinar: Key data - Census

Census data from 1971-2011 provides a unique source of robust population data, particularly for small areas and often-overlooked groups, such as those living in establishments.This webinar is intended as an introduction to the Census data available from the UK Data Service, for anyone who is interested in using them in research or teaching.