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LIS summer workshop - three scholarships available
June 30-July 7 in Luxembourg
FORS is offering three scholarships for young researchers to attend the LIS Introductory Summer Workshop in Luxembourg, June 30 - July 7, 2013

DARIS survey of qualitative data producers and users 2012
11.12.2012
DARIS conducted a survey of researchers who work with qualitative data in Switzerland. The purpose was to assess the qualitative research practices and views of researchers that are relevant to the sharing and re-use of qualitative data

Security 2011 on NESSTAR
11.12.2012
The 2011 data for the survey Security, dedicated to the evolution of opinions regarding security, foreign, and defense policy, are now available online on our

Selects 2011 RCS on NESSTAR
08.08.2012
In addition to the post-electoral survey, and for the first time, a Rolling Cross-Section (RCS) survey was carried out within the framework of Selects in German- and French-speaking Switzerland

Selects 2011 on NESSTAR
20.06.2012
Data from Selects 2011, a telephone and paper/online post-electoral survey, are now accessible online on our

Swiss PISA data at DARIS
20.06.2012
All Swiss data from PISA are now available at DARIS for use by researchers. This international survey, which evaluates the acquistion of knowledge and know-how essential for daily life at the end of obligatory education, is carried out every three years since 2000 in OECD member countries and in numerous partner countries

SERSCIDA survey
20.06.2012
DARIS is a participating member of the consortium SERSCIDA, an FP7 project to establish social science data archives in the Western Balkans

VoxIt update
12.06.2012
A new edition of the standardized Vox surveys containing the federal votes of 2010 is now available

European Social Survey 2010 on NESSTAR

21.03.2012

The Swiss data of the ESS (European Social Survey) 2010 are now available online, on our

MOSAiCH: 2011 data on NESSTAR

09.03.2012

Data from MOSAiCH 2011 are now available online on our

Results of the DARIS 2011 survey on data sharing
In order to continue to provide research and data resources well-suited to the needs of the research community in Switzerland, we conducted a national online survey in 2011 on research practices, beliefs about data sharing, and useful tools for research

LIS summer workshop - three scholarships available
July 1-8 in Luxembourg
FORS is offering three scholarships for young researchers to attend the LIS Introductory Summer Workshop in Luxembourg, July 1-8, 2012

New publication on qualitative data archiving
Are you interested in the current state of qualitative data archiving in Europe? Then see this just released special issue of the IASSIST quarterly:

European Social Survey 2008 on NESSTAR

27.09.11

The Swiss data of the European Social Survey (ESS) 2008 are now available

Mise à jour de VoxIt
A new edition of the standardized Vox surveys containing the federal votes of 2009 is now available

The Dynamics of Value Change in Switzerland: Causes and Consequences
World Values ​​Survey - 2007
The Swiss part of the World Values Survey, which takes place in more than 50 countries, was conducted, following the 1989 and 1996 editions, for the third time in 2007

Volunteer Work in Educational and Religious Adminstrative Bodies in the Canton of Zurich
Two written surveys, conducted by the ETH Zurich, addressed volunteer work, with focus on schools and churches

Workshop on the Luxembourg Income Study

University of Bern November 10, 2011 Registration deadline - October 14

FORS is organising the 3rd one-day workshop on using data from the LIS – Cross National Data Center in Luxembourg (

New Selects data available online

08.06.11

The survey panel data from 1999 and 2003 are now accessible online, via our NESSTAR server. Plus, data from the complementary 2007 survey (postal or online) have been added to the already available telephone survey data from that year

European Social Survey 2006 on NESSTAR

06.06.11

The Swiss data of the European Social Survey (ESS) 2006 are now available

VoxIt updated

26.05.11

A new version of the standarised post-vote surveys "VOXIT", including the 2009 votes, is now available at the following page:

Security 2010

09.05.11

The "Security" series describes the trends and tendancies of opinion among the Swiss population regarding security, defense, and foreign policy, based on a representative survey

Political analysis of federal legislative activity 1983-2007

04.05.11

The project of Wolf Linder et al. of the University of Bern examines legislative activity in the form of an inventory of national and international legal acts in place between 1983 and 2007, methodologically inspired from a former project by Linder on the development of Swiss laws from 1947 to 1982

A neglected phenomenon: the changing mission of day care centers in the face of diversifying family conditions

08.02.11

This project, led by the University of applied science in social work and health (EESP) in the canton of Vaud, aims to better understand the family conditions of those using day care cetners and to assess the types of parent requests addressed to educators of young children

Swiss volunteer work 2010

08.02.11

A national study of Swiss volunteer work was carried out for the second time in 2010, under the direction of Markus Freitag

People on War UK survey 2007

08.02.11

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, the International Committee of the Red Cross repeated in the United Kingdom the 1999 People on War survey conducted in 17 countries

Parliamentary Decisions: Electoral considerations, party pressure and strategic calculations

08.02.11

This research project, led by the University of Zurich under the guidance of Stefanie Bailer and Simon Hug, examines the voting behavior of Swiss parlementarians

Security 1995-2008 on NESSTAR

27.01.11

The NESSTAR publication of the Security series, devoted to the evolution of opinions regarding defense policy, is now complete

Health behaviours of Swiss students 2006

20.12.10

The Swiss data of the survey "Health Behaviour in School-aged Children" (HBSC) 2006 are now available

Security 2009

20.12.10

The "Security" series describes the currents and tendancies of Swiss public opinion on foreign, security, and defense policy, by way of a representative survey

LifE-Studie: Lebensverläufe von der späten Kindheit ins frühe Erwachsenenalter

20.12.10

This research project from the Universities of Zurich, Constance, and Potsdam examined, in a continuation of the longitudinal study "Entwicklung im Jugendalter" (1979 to 1983), the life course and psychosocial development of 1,500 individuals age 12 to 35, in the city and region of Frankfurt

European Social Survey 2006

20.12.10

The Swiss data of the European Social Survey (ESS) 2006 are now available through DARIS and will soon be accessible on our Nesstar server

"Security" surveys now available on Nesstar

06.10.10

Our Nesstar server has been enriched with a new collection made up of the annual "security" surveys, devoted to the evolution of opinions about defense policy in Switzerland

Data from TREE available at DARIS

06.10.10

The project Transitions from school to work TREE at the University of Basil now has its own web page on the site of DARIS, which guarantees to users a quicker access to the data and relevant information:

VOXIT updated

22.04.10

A new version of the standarised post-vote surveys "VOXIT", including the 2008 votes, is now available at the following page:

Data access and data sharing
This report from DARIS describes findings from a 2009 survey of researchers in Switzerland on their use of specific FORS/DARIS data services










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