Swiss Centre Of Expertise In The Social Sciences

• conducting national and international surveys on social and political topics;
• documenting and providing datasets of all kinds for secondary analyses;
• enhancing methods and procedures for survey research;
• advising researchers.

The FORS integrates infrastructures and research projects like the Swiss Household Panel (SHP),^[1] the Swiss Electoral Studies (Selects),^[2] the Social Report,^[3] and the current Data and Research Information Services (DARIS).^[4]

In addition, the FORS organises teaching and learning events, including the annual Swiss Summer School on Methods in the Social Sciences,^[5] monthly seminars on research methodology (in collaboration with social science faculty partners (MISC^[6] and IMA^[7]), workshops at Swiss universities and universities of applied sciences, as well as international conferences. FORS also offers a data portal to public statistics—COMPASS.^[8]

FORS and its staff collaborate widely with different players in the social sciences, in Switzerland and abroad.

Partner Institutions, Organisations, and Infrastructures

• Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)^[9]
• Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF)^[10]
• European Social Survey (ESS)^[11]
• European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)^[12]
• European Survey Research Association (ESRA)^[13]
• International Social Survey Program (ISSP)^[14]
• Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS)^[15]
• Réseau Quételet - French Data Archives for Social Sciences^[16]
• State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) ^[17]
• Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)^[18]
• Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (ASSH)^[19]
• Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO)^[20]
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)^[21]

References

External links

• Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (Original source)
• Official website

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