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The missing link? Linking surveys with geospatial and digital behavioral data
Survey data are the most widely used type of data in the quantitative social sciences. They have been used to investigate a huge range of societally relevant topics. However, they also have specifi...
SND is granted continued funding from the Swedish Research Council
SND has been granted continued funding from the Swedish Research Council for the time period 2023–2026. The exact amount that has been approved has not yet been announced. At the end of September,...
Difficult questions as register-based research becomes more open
Anders Brändström is a domain specialist in register-based data at SND. He has more than 40 years of experience from researching historical and present register data. In the A domain specialist in...
Census 2021: Considering user needs for public, safeguarded, and secure data
Helena Rosiecka continues our census series by discussing Census 2021 data outputs, including origin-destination flow datasets and microdata products. She also considers the importance of user need...
International Day of Democracy – About the Might of Majority
The governing form known as democracy translates literally as ‘the rule of the people.’ It has existed in its earliest form for over 2,500 years. In Western countries, it is now generally uncontrov...
The German Federal Election 2021 Twitter Dataset
The German Federal Election of 2021 will be the most digitalized ever: In times of Covid-19, a younger electorate and omnipresence of user generated content, social media has become an important to...