FORS is the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences providing data and methodological expertise to researchers in Switzerland and abroad.
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8 Jul 2025
In two days! FORS Data Live – Your Social Science Data Q&A ➡️ Got questions about data management, sharing or reuse in the social sciences? 📷 Thursday 10th of July 2025, 12:30–13:00 CEST, Online via Zoom. No registration needed 📷 Details zoom link: forscenter.ch/data-live/
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23 Jun 2025
We're delighted that Switzerland 🇨🇭 has become the 30th Member of our European Research Infrastructure Consortium.
#Switzerland has taken part in all 11 rounds of our survey and has been an Observer since 2013, with support from @SBFI_CH & @FORSresearch.
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19 Jun 2025
🎥 Watch our teaser: youtu.be/zu0CKsOov8I
Make your social sciences project visible with SWISSUbase — the Swiss platform to register and promote your research.
FORS supports you every step of the way.
👉 info.swissubase.ch
#SWISSUbase #OpenScience #FORS #SocialScience
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3 Jun 2025
FORS Data Live – Your Social Science Data Q&A
➡️ Got questions about data management, sharing or reuse in the social sciences?
➡️Join our next live session
🗓 Wednesday 12 June 2025, 12:30–13:00 CEST, Online via Zoom. No registration needed
➡️ Details: forscenter.ch/data-live/
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20 May 2025
Submit your abstract now ‼️To commemorate 25 years of longitudinal surveys in Switzerland, submit your paper NOW for a special issue titled "25 Years of Longitudinal Surveys in Switzerland: Analysing Social Dynamics in Switzerland and Beyond".
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16 May 2025
The new discussion paper by Georg Lutz (FORS) & Rita Gautschy (DaSCH) looks at the gaps in 🇨🇭research infrastructure policy.
They propose a new framework in the RIPA law to support sustainable, well-governed infrastructures.
🔗 zenodo.org/records/15388177
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15 May 2025
👉Register now! FORS-DaSCH webinar on Authority data, standards, and metadata – essential tools to ensure consistency, discoverability, and interoperability in research data.
🕑 May 28, 2025 | 14:00–15:30 💻 Online
forscenter.ch/fors-dasch-web…
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13 May 2025
New FORS Guide out now!
Capturing the last phase of life in surveys by Clément Meier. ➡️Challenges like cognitive decline, health problems & mortality — and how to deal with them in survey research.
Read: forscenter.ch/fors-guides/fg…
Watch: rec.unil.ch/videos/fors-guid…
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10 May 2025
The cumulative Selects dataset (1971–2023) is now available! Explore over 50 years of Swiss election surveys in one place.
Download: doi.org/10.48573/2w7s-1591
ALT https://www.swissubase.ch/en/catalogue/studies/8862/latest/datasets/495/3794/overview
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1 May 2025
Tackling data challenges isn’t a solo mission — we’re here for you for free. Every second Thursday of the month
🕐 13:00–14:00 CET
🚪 No registration,
📅 Next session: May 8, 2025
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24 Mar 2025
Our new service for data users: Data Live, your monthly Q&A on data management & data sharing in Switzerland 🇨🇭. Experts FORS Data Management & Archiving Services answer your questions. Every second Thursday of the monsth, 1pm–2pm starting April 10, 2025 forscenter.ch/data-live/
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11 Apr 2025
New article out in Survey Research Methods with Oliver Lipps and @AnkeTresch 🥳 "Asking for Panel Consent in Web Surveys: Choice, Opt-in, or Opt-out?" In short: If you have the choice, opt for opt-out 😉 Full article here: doi.org/10.18148/srm/2025.v1…
@FORSresearch @sspunil
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8 Apr 2025
Our Annual Report 2024 is out! Interested in how social science is evolving in Switzerland? All about our activities — from our surveys to data management & archiving. We remain committed to quality, accessibility & supporting the research community. forscenter.ch/wp-content/upl…
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24 Mar 2025
Our new service for data users: Data Live, your monthly Q&A on data management & data sharing in Switzerland 🇨🇭. Experts FORS Data Management & Archiving Services answer your questions. Every second Thursday of the monsth, 1pm–2pm starting April 10, 2025 forscenter.ch/data-live/
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21 Mar 2025
Registration is now open! Join us for the conference “Celebrating 25 Years of Longitudinal Surveys in Switzerland” 🇨🇭
📅 June 4–5, 2025
📍 University of Lausanne
🔗 Register by 20 May: forscenter.ch/25-years-of-lo…
Preliminary programme available here: conftool.net/longitudinal-su…
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Just published ➡️ surveyinsights.org
📌 Do QR codes on mail contact materials help web surveys?
📌 Effects of mode & incentives on response rates & costs.
📌 QR codes vs. URLs in a national survey of older adults.
📌 Does interviewer-respondent gender matching reduce bias?
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FORS retweeted
18 Mar 2025
En 🇨🇭 les femmes subissent davantage les conséquences économiques d’un divorce. Leur revenu chute de 28% (sans enfants) et 38% (avec enfants). Celles issues de mariages traditionnels sont plus exposées à l’aide sociale. À lire dans notre dernier numéro socialchangeswitzerland.ch/?…
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FORS retweeted
18 Mar 2025
🇨🇭 In der Schweiz sinkt das Einkommen nach einer Scheidung um 28 % (Frauen ohne Kinder) bzw. 38 % (mit Kindern). Frauen aus traditionellen Ehen sind häufiger auf Sozialhilfe angewiesen. Zu lesen in der neuesten Ausgabe unserer Reihe 🔗 socialchangeswitzerland.ch/?…
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14 Mar 2025
Call for Papers ➡️Conference on Social Monitoring & Reporting in Europe: Demographic Challenges & Opportunities & their Impact on Well-being
October 6–8, 2025 | Villa Vigoni, Italy 📌Submission deadline: April 30. forscenter.ch/wp-content/upl…
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10 Mar 2025
We are pleased to announce the release of the MOSAiCH/ISSP 2024 data on Digital Societies and related topics, collected in spring 2024. The dataset and documentation are available here: swissubase.ch/en/catalogue/s….
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18 Feb 2025
The data from the fourth wave of the Selects Panel 2023 is now available for download▶️swissubase.ch/en/catalogue/s…
▶️The Swiss Election Study Selects has been investigating turnout and electoral behaviour in federal elections since 1995. selects.ch
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