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SIMon – Social Indicators Monitor (online) Heinz-Herbert Noll GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Social Indicators Research Centre Mannheim, Germany www.gesis.org/social-indicators
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SIMon – Social Indicators Monitor (online) Heinz-Herbert Noll GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Social Indicators Research Centre Mannheim, Germany www.gesis.org/social-indicators Satellite Meeting - Measuring subjective well-being: an opportunity for National Statistical Offices? Florence, July 23-24
SIMon – Social Indicators Monitor Will provide online access to time series data from two indicator systems German System of Social Indicators European System of Social Indicators Both developed and maintained by the “Social Indicators Research Centre”at GESIS SIMon developed in close collaboration with kognito gestaltung, Berlin
German System of Social Indicators http://www.gesis.org/en/services/data/social-indicators/the-german-system-of-social-indicators/ Originally developed in the 1970s within the SPES-Project, and continuously elaborated and updated since 13 Life Domains + Total Life Situation Approximately 450 indicators (objective and subjective) and more than 1000 time series Selection of 83 „key-indicators“ Time series starting by 1950 as far as data available East Germany included after reunification
European System of Social Indicators http://www.gesis.org/eusi/ to be used to monitor well-being and social progress in terms of quality of life,social cohesion and sustainability as well as changes in the social structure across European societies Characteristics Structure:13life domains and 8 major dimensions of well-being and social change (currently 9 implemented, covering ca. 650 indicators and 67.000 time series) Coverage: EU – member states + Norway, Switzerland, United States, Japan Time Period Covered: 1980 onwards Regional disaggregation at NUTS-1 level if data availability allows Disaggregation of indicators by various socio-demographic characteristics Data Sources: aggregate data from various sources + microdata sets (e.g. ECHP/EU-SILC, LIS, EB, ISSP, World-Value-Survey, European Social Survey)
SIMon - Basic Aims and Objectives Provide comfortable access to data from both indicator systems under a single platform Allow to browse and select indicators according to users‘ needs Allow to visualize data in different ways (e.g. across time; across countries) and formats Allow to display data as tables and provide tools for table manipulation Provide tools for basic data analysis Allow to export data and charts in different formats to be used in other applications (PDF, Excel-Tables, JPG, HTML) Provide efficient search and help functions Allow bilingual utilization (English, German) for the German Indicator System
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SIMon launch projected for fall 2009 For more information please contact: heinz-herbert.noll@gesis.org