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SIMon – Social Indicators Monitor (online) Heinz-Herbert Noll GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Social I

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 I

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. 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

  6. What are we talking about? Screenshots from Preview-Version

  7. SIMon  launch projected for fall 2009 For more information please contact: heinz-herbert.noll@gesis.org

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