Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce the release of a new Scientific Use File (SUF) of the RISC Regional Panel: The RISC Regional Panel 2021-2023 – Wave 1-2 (RISC RegPan W1-2 2021-23). For more details and information how the data can be obtained, please see below or visit https://fgz-risc-data.de/datenportal/datenangebot/risc_regional_panel/wave1-2_2021-2023/.

The RISC Regional Panel:
Coordinated by the RISC section Halle (Saale), sections Bielefeld, Göttingen, and Hannover jointly conducted this panel study on social cohesion in communities. The RISC Regional Panel covers 12 communes in 4 German federal states (Bavaria, Lower-Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt): One large city (min 200,000 inhabitants), one medium-sized city (max 50,000 inhabitants), and one small commune/village each. The samples are randomly drawn from official registry and the data are representative for each commune.

The RISC Regional Panel 2021-2023 – Wave 1-2:
The new release encompases individual-level data of the first and second wave of the study. It covers a wide range of topics such as social cohesion, neighbourhood, media consumption, local infrastructures, and polarisation.

Data Access:
The RISC RegPan W1-2 2021-23 can be ordered by all post-doctoral researchers affiliated with a scientific institution. For that purpose, please set up a data user account at https://fgz-risc-data.de/en/registration if not yet done. You can use this account in the future to order all Scientific Use Files available at the Research Data Centre of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RDC-RISC).

Account holders (primary users) may share the data with researchers under their supervision (secondary users). Secondary users must be listed in the primary user's data user account and must sign a privacy policy, which must be archived by the primary user.

We would like to point out that we provide data for scientific use only.

If you have any questions, please contact us at fgzdz@uni-bremen.de.

Best regards,
The teams of the RISC RegPan and the RDC-RISC

Dr. Jean-Yves Gerlitz
Koordinator des Forschungsdatenzentrums

Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

Forschungsdatenzentrum des FGZ

SOCIUM, University of Bremen

P.O. Box 330 440

28334 Bremen

Germany

Coordinator of the Research Data Centre, Research Institute Social Cohesion, Research Data Centre of the RISC

Telefon: +49 (0) 421 218 570 88

E-mail: jean-yves.gerlitz@fgz-risc.de

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