Maintained Individual Data Distributed Likelihood Estimation (MIDDLE) is a novel paradigm for research in the behavioral, social, and health sciences. The MIDDLE approach is based on the seemingly-impossible idea that data can be privately maintained by participants and never revealed to...

In a bold and risky political move the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras called for a referendum on June 27 2015 quitting ongoing negotiations with Greece's creditors in Brussels. The referendum framed as a yes or no question asked the Greek voters to decide whether or not they approve or...

This paper looks at leveraging DDI to enable semantic linking of social science data to other data and related resources on the Web and is organized into five use cases: (1) Linking related publications; (2) Linking people and organizations; (3) Linking geography; (4) Linking related studies;...

Das vorliegende Working Paper reflektiert die Erarbeitung forschungsethischer Empfehlungen des Rates für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), die unter https://www.ratswd.de/dl/RatSWD_Output9_Forschungsethik.pdf zu finden sind. Der RatSWD beziehungsweise die von ihm eingesetzte Arbeitsgruppe...

Der vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geförderte Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD) berät seit 2004 die Bundesregierung und die Regierungen der Länder in Fragen der Erweiterung und Verbesserung der Forschungsinfrastruktur für die empirischen Sozial-,...

Since its establishment in 2004, the German Data Forum (RatSWD), which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMBF), has been advising the federal government and the governments of the federal states (Länder) on issues relating to the expansion and improvement of the...