This doctoral study based on the SHP reveals that urban greenery and mixed land use significantly enhance life satisfaction, offering valuable insights for future urban planning.
To celebrate 25 years of longitudinal research in Switzerland, the SHP and TREE are hosting a conference at the University of Lausanne on June 4-5, 2025, and invite paper submissions.
FORS and DaSCH are launching a free webinar series on data management for humanities and social sciences researchers. The first session on “Planning Data Management” will be held online.
The upcoming MOSAiCH Call 2026 offers researchers a unique opportunity to collect representative data in Switzerland on relevant societal issues at no cost.
Do you use SWISSUbase to share or access data? If you are interested in learning more about the platform, its services, or the teams and institutions behind SWISSUbase, visit our newly launched Info Website.
The final version of the ISSP 2021 Health and Health Care II data file offers insights into health attitudes and behaviours from Switzerland and 29 other member countries.
We are pleased to announce the release of our updated search tool, designed to provide a detailed overview of the available SHP questions and variables.
We are pleased to announce that the beta-version of wave 25 of the Swiss Household Panel has been published on SWISSUbase.
A new study found that older adults experienced increased stress and decreased life satisfaction and positive affect after the Covid-19 pandemic, indicating greater difficulties adapting to the uncertain post-pandemic world.
The Swiss Political Science Review (SPSR) invites papers on the 2023 Swiss National Elections. Focus: new theoretical, methodological, or empirical insights on campaigns and voting behavior. Deadline: 23.09.2024.
The Swiss Election Study Selects has been investigating turnout and electoral behaviour in federal elections since 1995.
This package provides functions for extracting, assembling, and matching user-specified variable data into sequences with variables from unique files.
The survey data collected in the latest round of the European Social Survey (ESS) is now available for 13 countries, including Switzerland.
FORS is pleased to be part of the founding assembly and announces the appointment of Georg Lutz, Director of FORS, to the position of President within SSHOC-CH.
The ESS is honored to receive this prize in recognition of their collective work to deliver high quality data infrastructure to European social scientists.
The SHP team has published a call for contributions for the Research Topic “Exploring Social Stratification Dynamics: Insights from Longitudinal Survey Data”. Submit your abstract until July 31, 2024.
We are delighted to announce the release of our Annual Report 2023.
The registration and the programme are out now. In response to requests from past participants, 3 new courses are introduced this year.
Researchers are invited to submit applications for modules of questions to be fielded in each round of the European Social Survey. The deadling is April 26, 2023.
We invite researchers to propose questions for the second part of the MOSAiCH Survey 2025, which will thematically complement the ISSP 2025 Work Orientations V module. The deadline for submissions is Monday, April 22, 2024.
Many past and present contributors to FORS joined us last month, engaging in discussions that highlighted FORS’s remarkable journey and its future direction.
Brian Kleiner, Head of Data and Research Information Services for the Social Sciences: “Through CESSDA, we are able to build things together with other Data Archives and we benefit from what we build”.
A new study using data from the SHP and the SOEP states that the life satisfaction trajectories around retirement age have improved over the last 20 years.
Submit your abstract. From exploring crises, risks, and vulnerability using MOSAiCH-data to innovating gender analysis in quantitative surveys and (de)gendering vulnerabilities.