Author: doser
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New version of the ODISSEI Portal contains enriched metadata
We are happy to present a new version of the ODISSEI Portal. This is the fourth release since our first prototype which was launched in September 2022. The ODISSEI Portal combines metadata from a wide variety of research data repositories into a single interface, allowing for advanced queries to support findability, and facilitate data access…
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CBS’ Person Network (PN) file: improvements, extensions and applications
By Marjolijn Das, Jan van der Laan, Edwin de Jonge, Marieke de Vries, Vincent de Heij (CBS) CBS (Statistics Netherlands) developed the Person Network (PN), a file that describes networks of the entire population of the Netherlands in 2018. The potential networks of individuals are derived from administrative data (microdata) and contain five so-called network…
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Microdata Access Grant (MAG) Call 2024 Now Open
The Microdata Access Grant call of 2024 is now open. The MAG offers funding for six CBS microdata projects for researchers working at ODISSEI member organisations. Researchers who receive the grant will be able to execute a CBS microdata project of up to €7.500, which typically covers a six-month project for two researchers with access…
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ODISSEI LECTURE: How predictable are fertility outcomes? Introducing the PreFer data challenge and its potential for fertility research
On Tuesday 12 December between 14-15 hrs, Gert Stulp, an associate professor at the department of Sociology at the University of Groningen, will present Predicting Fertility data challenge (PreFer) that will focus on fertility outcomes – whether people have children – using two unique datasets: the LISS panel, a Dutch longitudinal survey, and Dutch population…
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Dare to share! How the DANS Data Station SSH supports FAIR data in the ODISSEI Community
For more than 15 years DANS exists with a mission to make research data reusable. In this role DANS provides data archiving and publishing services for the Dutch research community with a long history in providing services for the social sciences and humanities (SSH) domain.
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ODISSEI LECTURE: Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives.
On Tuesday 26 September between 14-15 hrs, Germans Savcisens, Ph.D. fellow at the Technical University of Denmark (Section for Cognitive Systems), a member of the Social Complexity Lab and Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen, will give an online lecture on Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives. We warmly invite you to…
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ODISSEI Social Data Science fellowship (SoDa fellowship)
The ODISSEI Social Data Science (SoDa) team offers SoDa fellowships for early career social scientists (i.e., PhD candidates, early career postdocs, pre-PhD researchers who have finished their studies). Successful SoDa fellows will spend between 3-5 months full-time working on a social science research project they propose. During this time, they are members of the SoDa…
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Six projects awarded Microdata Access Grant (MAG) 2023
The Microdata Access Grant offers financing of research projects using CBS microdata. In the 2023 round of the Call for Proposals for the Microdata Access Grant we have received 22 applications. The reviewers in this round were:Pieter Bakx (EUR), Maja Djundeva (SCP), Kim Fairley (RU), Eva Jaspers (UU), Joop Oude Groeninger (EUR). The following projects…
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Deadline Extended: Country Team Lead – Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is a research infrastructure for studying the effects of health, social, economic and environmental policies over the life-course of European citizens and beyond. SHARE is the largest social science panel study and has set new standards in research and scientific data collection. It has global…
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SoDa Team Workshop: Causal Impact Assessment
In May 2023, the ODISSEI Social Data Science Team (SoDa) has hosted a workshop on causal impact assessment at Utrecht University. The workshop was led by Erik-Jan van Kesteren and Oisín Ryan (SoDa / Utrecht University). The workshop materials are now available online. What is causal impact assessment? How do we assess whether a school…