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Momentan besteht hohes wissenschaftspolitisches Interesse an der Entwicklung von Forschungsinfrastrukturen in allen Wissenschaftsbereichen. Wir plädieren dafür, ein national gefördertes Onlinelabor für die psychologische Forschung in diesen Diskurs einzubringen. Dieses Labor sollte einen...

Wir stellen die Ergebnisse einer Meinungs- und Bedarfserhebung zu einem national geförderten Online-Labor für die Forschung in Psychologie und verwandten Disziplinen vor. Ein solches Online-Labor sollte einen großen Teilnehmerpool, Zugang zu und Schnittstellen mit Software zur Durchführung...

Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society’s prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete-Kommission)...

Background: The National Cohort (NaKo) will be one of the largest cohort studies in Europe to include intensive physical examinations and extensive information about the socio-demographic background and behavior of the subjects. However, regional selectivity of the study and potential learning...

Will die Politik evidenzbasierte Entscheidungen über die Steuerung gesamtgesellschaftlicher Wohlfahrt und Lebensqualität treffen, so bedarf sie statistisch abgesicherter Informationen über die vergangene, aktuelle und auch künftige Entwicklung relevanter Phänomene. Vor dem Diktum einer...

Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of...

Empirical data can be characterized by a precise location in space and time. An estimated 80% of all data holds such a spatio-temporal reference and is termed geodata. This paper starts with the question: What is the additional benefit for socio-economic sciences using geodata and the spatial...

“Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care...