Job opening National Coordinator ESS & scientific speed date during IC2S2

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Job opening: National Coordinator European Social Survey

2020 will see the start of the tenth measurement of the European Social Survey (ESS) in the Netherlands. The ESS is a leading biennial survey aimed at identifying and explaining views on social, cultural and political issues in Europe.

With effect from Round 10 (2020-2021), the ESS fieldwork in the Netherlands will be organised by ODISSEI. ODISSEI has asked the NWO-ESSNeth Committee to recruit a National Coordinator for Round 10. The National Coordinator will be responsible for the smooth running of the Dutch contribution to this challenging project.

Read the full job text (in Dutch)

New call for free Microdata access: MAG

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. The grant applies to projects carried out by ODISSEI participants within their own research program, as is the case for first and second flow research and research funded by the European Commission.

The available budget allows for granting free CBS Microdata access to five projects. The budget of € 8,000 per project (maximum) will typically cover a project by two researchers, with a duration of six months and access to approximately ten datasets (see the CBS data catalogue). Proposals must be submitted by 30 April 2019 at the latest. Read more about the MAG.

At the introductory meeting on CBS Microdata (see next item), special attention was paid to the MAG.

Read more about the MAG

Introductory meeting on CBS Microdata and launch of MAG

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.Those present found the introductory meeting very useful for researchers who are new to Microdata. ODISSEI and CBS therefore intend to organise meetings of this kind more often.

Want to know more about working with CBS Microdata? On Thursday afternoon March 28th Statistics Netherlands organizes the next Microdata user meeting. This user meeting (in Dutch) is the semi-annual event for researchers and policy-makers to gain further knowledge of, and share their experiences working with, CBS Microdata. This edition's theme is Businesses. All presentations will be in Dutch. Click here for the complete programm and sign up.

Read the full report of the introductory meeting

ODISSEI sponsors IC2S2 with scientific speed date

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’ on Monday 15 July. Researchers working with the ODISSEI Data Facility (ODF) will also be present at this networking event.

Participation is free of charge. This event will take place in Amsterdam and will start at 5pm.

Don't miss this stimulating opportunity to meet up with interesting researchers from computational social science!

ODF-pilot: ‘Effects of spatial contextual characteristics on personal income’

The ODISSEI Data Facility (ODF), in which authorized researchers can securely link CBS data to their own datasets and analyse them on SURFsara's national high-performance computer, is being thoroughly tested by three pilot projects. One of the researchers is Eveline de Zeeuw (NTR), who looks at the underlying causes of differences in the amount of care that people need.

Are increased healthcare costs a consequence of certain physical and psychological characteristics or of personal and cognitive characteristics? Or is there another explanation found in previous research?

In this project, one of the biggest challenges is linking data from the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) to CBS data.