ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations) is the national research infrastructure for the social sciences in the Netherlands. ODISSEI brings together researchers with the necessary data, expertise and resources to conduct ground-breaking research and embrace the computational turn in social enquiry.
Through ODISSEI, researchers have access to large-scale, longitudinal data collections as well as innovative and diverse new forms of data. These can be linked to administrative data at Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Combining data from a wide range of sources enables researchers to answer new, exciting, interdisciplinary research questions and to investigate existing questions in novel, new ways.
NEWS
18 February 2021
The 2021 round of the Microdata Access Grant (MAG) call opens today. The MAG offers researchers free access to CBS microdata.
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29 April 2020
ODISSEI is one of the seven large scientific infrastructures to receive a NWO financing from the national Roadmap for Large-scale Research Infrastructures. The investment will be used to accelerate development of computational social science in the Netherlands over the next five years.
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26 February 2021
ODISSEI Management Board member Ruurd Schoonhoven (Senior Account Manager, Statistics Netherlands (CBS)) is retiring and will leave ODISSEI after years of exceptional and active involvement. Ruurd stood out because of his dedication to ODISSEI and his diligent and considerate attitude.
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24 February 2021
In February, the new E-data website was launched (in Dutch). Now that the new website is in place, E-data articles can be found and shared as indiviudual items.
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23 February 2021
This month, SURF has announced that a new supercomputer will be built. In the future, the OSSC will be transferred to the new supercomputer, to enable social scientists to make use of the enormous amount of extra computing power it offers.
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15 February 2021
The department of Methods and Statistics at Utrecht University offers a variety of courses during the Utrecht Summer School 2021 that may be of interest to the ODISSEI community. Registration is now open for most courses.
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8 February 2021
On Tuesday 9 February 2021 from 12-1 pm, the first ODISSEI Lunch Lecture will take place digitally. Dr. Hannah Roberts (UU) will discuss her recent research on associations between multiple environmental exposures and depressive symptoms in the Netherlands. For this research, Roberts has combined survey data with CBS microdata and GPS data.
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3 February 2021
SURF is organising the national conference around research and ICT: the SURF research week. The 3-day online programme will take place on the afternoons of 13, 14 and 15 April. During sessions on data processing, research support, open science and much more, attendees will learn about the latest ICT services that can accelerate research. The programme also offers room to meet with researchers or connect with SURF partners.
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26 January 2021
On 1 February, the Netherlands eScience Center opens a call for machine learning projects: Open Call for Small-Scale Initiatives in Machine Learning.
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11 January 2021
Mara Yerkes (Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Utrecht University) received the ODISSEI LISS Corona grant in the spring of 2020 together with an interdisciplinary team of researchers from three Dutch universities. The grant gave Yerkes and her team free access to the LISS panel to examine gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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17 December 2020
The results of the LISS-call 2020 are in. Proposals from nine researchers at ODISSEI member organisations were awarded the grant. Via the grant, the researchers will get access to free panel time. The LISS panel, managed by CentERdata, gives researchers access to survey data from about 7,000 respondents from approximately 4,500 households.
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29 November 2020
The Microdata Access Grant provides free access to CBS Microdata for researchers working at an ODISSEI member organisation. In the 2020 round of the MAG, eight projects were awarded, three more than in previous years.
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26 November 2020
On 3 December at 14.00 CET CESSDA is organising a webinar on the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide, where a researcher, a trainer and an expert will be on hand to discuss why and how to use the guide for Research Data Management in the social sciences and beyond.
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23 November 2020
The new newsletter of ODISSEI has been published. Read about: the Community Conference of 24 November, the latest on the OSSC, ODISSEI Roadshow possibilities, the KansenKaart.nl and Microdata Access Discount, the new E-data
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9 November 2020
A new interactive website developed by economist Bastian Ravesteijn (Erasmus School of Economics) and his research team shows stark differences in economic opportunities depending on the area in the Netherlands where people spend their childhood.
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6 November 2020
On November 12th, CBS is organizing a microdata webinar, with the theme ‘inequality.’ This event offers scientists the opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience about working with CBS microdata.
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30 October 2020
In October, the ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer (OSSC) was officially launched. After the execution of many tests and security checks, the OSSC is now ready for use.
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21 October 2020
On 29 October 2020, the Dutch Platform for Survey Research (NPSO) organizes a seminar about the GDPR and ethics in survey research. The new privacy law has influenced the way survey research has to be conducted.
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15 October 2020
On September 15 Ana Petrović (TU Delft) successfully defended her PhD thesis 'Multiscale spatial contexts and neighbourhood effects’. She received her PhD Cum Laude.
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13 October 2020
The new issue of E-Data & Research is out, including articles about the consequences of COVID-19 for SSH research and an interview with Claes de Vreese about the Platform Digital Infrastructure SSH.
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13 October 2020
This month, two calls opened specifically for young researchers. The Nationaal Kiezersonderzoek (NKO) offers free space for the addition of questions to the panel and the Netherlands eScience Center offers an award of €50.000 for a novel research idea.
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9 October 2020
In September three new ODISSEI employees have started at our partner organisations. Both the ODISSEI Social Data Analytics Team (OSDAT) at Utrecht University as well as the Portal Team at VU Amsterdam have expanded their teams.
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8 October 2020
On the afternoon of Tuesday, November 24, the ODISSEI Community Conference will take place virtually. In June, ODISSEI received Roadmap funding from NWO with which the project has officially started. At the Community Conference, ODISSEI users will share their research and experience. Additionally, several ODISSEI leading researchers will share their vision on the role of ODISSEI…
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29 September 2020
The Management Board oversees the execution of ODISSEI and represents the ODISSEI member organisations. With the start of the Roadmap-project, four new members have joined the board.
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18 September 2020
On 1 September 2020, ODISSEI welcomed two Community Managers: Suze Zijlstra and Eva Heitbrink. They are responsible for maintaining contacts with (potential) ODISSEI users.
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12 August 2020
On September 3, DANS and LCRDM organize “Food for Psychologists”, an online event especially for researchers in psychology, with tools, tips and tricks in the field of Research Data Management and data sharing.
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13 July 2020
The Microdata Access Grant provides free access to CBS Microdata for researchers working at an ODISSEI member organisation. In the 2020 round of the MAG, eight projects were awarded, three more than in previous years. The next round of the Microdata Access Grant will probably open in spring 2021.
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22 June 2020
Read the new E-data & Research.
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16 June 2020
In the LISS call, researchers at one of the ODISSEI member organisations can apply for free data collection through the LISS panel.
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16 June 2020
As part of the development of the ODISSEI Portal, DANS is hiring a software engineer/integrator. Together with the project partners at VU and SURF, you will work on deploying a portal that provides uniform access to social science (meta)data from various large scale studies and several institutions, including CBS, CentERdata and DANS.
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5 June 2020
As of 1 July 2020, ODISSEI welcomes six new member organisations.
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3 June 2020
What are the consequences of the corona crisis? How do Dutch patients feel about artificial intelligence? E-data research&data wrote an article on 12 current data collections in the LISS panel that ODISSEI recently honoured.
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8 April 2020
ODISSEI has allocated free time on the LISS panel for corona-related research into home education and the distribution of care tasks.
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31 March 2020
All over the world people are joining forces in the hope of quickly developing a vaccine for the corona virus and a cure for COVID-19. SURF is contributing to this by giving researchers accelerated access to high-quality computing facilities and data services. We also support numerous other research initiatives.
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30 March 2020
The ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) provides researchers working at an ODISSEI member organisation with free access to CBS Microdata. The 2020 round was launched.
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13 March 2020
ODISSEI is launching an extra call for free data collection in the LISS panel, specifically aimed at questions associated with the corona virus.
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17 February 2020
Statistics Netherlands organises a meeting for researchers who (wish to) make use of CBS microdata.
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12 February 2020
Platform for Digital Infrastructure for SSH (PDI-SSH) invites submissions for the Call for Proposals Digital Infrastructure SSH.
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7 February 2020
Over the past 5 years the Data4lifesciences programme has evolved into a highly-appreciated knowledge sharing platform for the Dutch UMCs for their research data infrastructure. The Dutch UMCs and many partner institutes now venture into a new phase with Health-RI, the national data infrastructure for health research. An excellent occasion to look back to the successes…
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3 February 2020
ODISSEI verwelkom Utrecht Universiteit Faculteit der Geowetenschappen als een nieuwe deelnemer.
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23 December 2019
E-data & Research is a newsletter covering issues related to data and research in the social science and humanities. It appears three times a year and is free of charge. Both hardcopy and digital editions of E-data & Research are available. Organisations participating in ODISSEI can order large quantities of the newsletter to distribute in their organisations. Subscribe…
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19 December 2019
Ten researchers from the ODISSEI member organisations have been granted free data collection through the LISS panel. This panel, managed by CentERdata, consists of some 7,000 individuals from approximately 4,500 households. The panel is a representative sample of the Dutch population. In total, 39 proposals were submitted, a noteworthy increase in comparison to the 31…
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18 December 2019
Dr. Kasia Karpinska has recently joined the ODISSEI Coordination Team at Erasmus University. She coordinates the grant funding of ODISSEI, including the Microdata Access Discount, the Microdata Access Grant, and the LISS Grant. Kasia obtained her PhD from Utrecht School of Economics in 2013. She previously worked as a researcher at Erasmus School of Social…
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12 December 2019
The ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer (OSSC) allows to analyse highly sensitive data, such as CBS Microdata, on the Cartesius supercomputer. You can now put your project on the interest list.
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11 December 2019
ODISSEI is currently hiring Community Manager who will maintain the relationship with (potential) users of the infrastructure. Community Manager will introduce ODISSEI’s services to researchers, graduate schools and data managers, and will organise community events. Setting up the educational program of ODISSEI will be another task of the Community Manager. The vacancy will be published soon.
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7 November 2019
On November 21, CBS organises a Microdata afternoon on policy evaluation.
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6 November 2019
The organisation looks back to a sucessful first edition of the ODISSEI Community Conference. View the presentations and photographs here.
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5 November 2019
As of 2020, ODISSEI will become stakeholder of eData & Research. This newsletter on data and research in the social sciences and humanities is delivered three times a year to all researchers in these fields for free.
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9 October 2019
ODISSEI will host a session during the 6th National eScience Symposium on 21 November in Amsterdam.
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3 September 2019
ODISSEI will be organising a conference for its community on Tuesday 22 October. Grasp this opportunity to learn about the possibilities of ODISSEI, broaden your network and learn from each other. Register now!
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21 June 2019
At the request of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the KNAW wrote the advisory report Hergebruik van publieke data. Meer wetenschap en beter overheidsbeleid (Reuse of public data. More science and better government policy). Yesterday, Pearl Dysktra, head of the committee and scientific director of ODISSEI, handed the report to the Ministry.
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18 June 2019
ODISSEI has submitted a proposal to the NWO Roadmap Large-scale scientific infrastructure.
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14 June 2019
After the success of the first call in 2018, this year ODISSEI repeats the call Collect data in the LISS panel. In this call researchers at one of the ODISSEI member organisations could apply for free data collection through the LISS panel.
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28 May 2019
ODISSEI welcomes CentERdata, Erasmus School of Health Policy Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam), and School of Business and Economics (VU University Amsterdam) as its newest participants.
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28 May 2019
In the latest edition of e-Data & Research much attention is paid to ODISSEI.
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27 May 2019
In the ODISSEI LISS call 2018, nine projects were awarded free time in the LISS panel: Seger Breugelmans, Tilburg University Henk van der Kolk, Twente University Tim Wildschut, Utrecht University Nadine Bol, Universiteit van Amsterdam Bella Struminskaya, Utrecht University Muriel Hagenaars, Utrecht University Mariëlle Cloin, Tilburg University Bastian Jaeger, Tilburg University Banu Aysolmaz, Maastricht University…
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17 April 2019
The Dutch Platform for Survey Research (NPSO) is organizing their second annual lecture day on 21 May. This years theme is 'mobile device surveys and sensordata'.
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17 April 2019
The Netherlands eScience Center invites ‘Big Science’ researchers and ICT researchers to apply for funding to address innovative compute-intensive and/or data-driven research problems. Theretofore, the eScience Center introduces the call Innovative eScience Technologies for ‘Big Science’ (eTEC-BIG).
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14 March 2019
The 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be held in Amsterdam from 17 to 20 July 2019. ODISSEI is a sponsor of IC2S2 and will be hosting a ‘scientific speed date’ during Warm-Up on 15 July.
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28 February 2019
On Tuesday 19 February, an introductory meeting on the use of CBS Microdata was held at Statistics Netherlands (CBS) in The Hague. At the same meeting, the MAG call was launched to allow researchers free access to the CBS Microdata.
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20 February 2019
ODISSEI is looking for a national coordinator for the 10th measurement of the European Social Survey (ESS) in the Netherlands.
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6 February 2019
On Thursday 16 May 2019, SHARE Netherlands, member of the ODISSEI network, organizes a user workshop together with SHARE Germany. This workshop will include scientific presentations and practical sessions on how to get more out of the SHARE data.
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23 January 2019
On Thursday 7 March 2019, ODISSEI participant University of Groningen organizes an introductory meeting to ODISSEI. During this afternoon four speakers will highlight different aspects of the network, its developments and the possibilities it offers for researcher.
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15 January 2019
On Tuesday 19 February 2019, an introductory meeting on using CBS Microdata will be held, aimed at novice researchers. At the event, you will learn about available Microdata, the practical process of working with them and further requirements and costs.
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15 January 2019
As from the pilot year 2019, the ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) will annually provide five researchers working at an ODISSEI participant with free access to CBS Microdata. Novice researchers in particular are invited to submit their MAG proposals.
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12 December 2018
ODISSEI gladly welcomes two new participants: Nivel (Netherlands institute for health services research) and the TU Delft faculty of Architecture, who will both join per 1 January 2019.
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11 December 2018
Thanks to a new call, researchers at one of the ODISSEI participants could apply for free data collection through the LISS panel. This panel, managed by CentERdata, consists of some 7,000 individuals from approximately 4,500 households.
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3 December 2018
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) published a blog on the ODISSEI Data Facility (ODF). In this blog the institute introduces ODISSEI and explains their role in the development of the data infrastructure for the social sciences.
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2 December 2018
On the 6-7th November 2018 in Tokyo, Japan, the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) hosted its 3rd biennial conference on International Science Advice to Government. During this event, ODISSEI’s scientific director Pearl Dykstra gave a presentation on ODISSEI.
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23 October 2018
Earlier this month, the Erasmus University Rotterdam held an event on Open Access – The Business of Scholarship. That afternoon, Pearl Dykstra, scientific director of ODISSEI, gave a keynote.
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19 September 2018
ODISSEI has opened a Call for Proposals for ODISSEI participants to be able to collect data using the LISS panel.
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15 March 2018
In the fourth quarter of 2017, as a pilot ODISSEI made a remuneration available to its participants that made use of CBS microdata during that quarter. ODISSEI participants received a discount of 50% on the costs for projects executed via CBS’s remote access facility.
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15 March 2018
Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC) invites researchers working in the domains of Environment & Sustainability and Humanities & Social Sciences to apply for funding and support to address compute-intensive and/or data-driven problems within their research.
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26 October 2017
Thursday 26 October, the workshop Linkage of Data was held in Utrecht, organized by ODISSEI and Statistics Netherlands (CBS). During this workshop over sixty participants shared their experiences on the topic of data linkage.
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16 October 2017
With pleasure the Board of the NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) invites researchers and others interested for its first Synergy Conference: 'Creating common ground for the social sciences and humanities' on 16 November 2017 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. One of the parallel sessions will be given by ODISSEI chairman Pearl Dysktra.
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11 September 2017
As a pilot starting in the fourth quarter of 2017, ODISSEI is making a remuneration available to its particpants that make use of CBS microdata. This so-called Microdata Regulation is being provided as a contribution towards the costs for using CBS microdata.
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28 August 2017
A new Research Fellow post is available at the European Social Survey (ESS) HQ based at City, University of London funded jointly by ESS ERIC and the University.
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14 June 2017
The YOUth study recently welcomed the thousandth participant in the KinderkennisCentrum of Utrecht University. YOUth explores how children grow up and how various factors influence the development of the young brain.
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27 October 2016
During a festive meeting at the Central Museum in Utrecht last Thursday, ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovation) was launched. Together with Pieter Hooimeijer (NWO-MaGW) and Huib van de Stadt (CBS), scientific leader Pearl Dykstra (EUR) performed the symbolic opening act by announcing the new name.
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ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer
In the ODISSEI Secure supercomputer (OSSC), researchers can analyse data from CBS in a secure way on SURF’s Cartesius high-performance computing environment.
These are three recent projects:
Who uses the healthcare system and when? Obviously people use it when they get ill, but is everyone as likely to use it for the same conditions in the same way? In this study, researchers from VU Amsterdam examine whether there are specific characteristics which are associated with health care usage and that might explain differences in health outcomes in the population.
In this groundbreaking study, Statistics Netherlands linked the records of 16.9 million people, identifying their family, their neighbours, their schoolmates, and their colleagues. The resulting network allows researchers to understand how behaviour and inequalities spread across the population and where strong and weak ties exist between various groups in the population.
In this remarkable study by researchers at TU Delft, high resolution geo-spatial data are rendered for the whole of the Netherlands and identify the distribution of populations, poverty and deprivation at an unprecedented scale in order to better understand how our local neighbourhood shapes our own lives.
International collaborations
Work streams
ODISSEI consists of four closely integrated work streams.