Funding for transnational access to official microdata

Call for research proposals under the FP7 EU project "Data without Boundaries" (DwB)

To enhance access across borders to official microdata, the FP7-funded Data without Boundaries project offers different kinds of support for the work with a range of highly-detailed data from a number of European countries.

Please, read the instructions carefully at: http://www.dwbproject.org/access/call.html

This is a continuous call and there will be additional opportunities to apply. The next upcoming *deadline is 15th October 2012*. Additional deadline dates are 15th April and 15th October in 2013 and 2014.

The call is available also as pdf (240 kB) http://www.dwbproject.org/access/doc/DwB_third_call_for_proposals.pdf

Further details on DwB: http://www.dwbproject.org/about/

DwB Training Course: Working with data from official statistics in Europe, particularly the European Labour Force Survey

The Data without Boundaries project is organising its first training course which will be hosted by GESIS, Mannheim, Germany, between 18 July 2012 and 20 July 2012.

As well as highlighting the legal and administrative aspects of data access, the course will demonstrate the possibilities of the EU-LFS in a hands-on computer session which will explore the potential for both international as well as longitudinal analysis. A basic understanding of multivariate statistical methods and SPSS/Stata will be required.

The course will consist of three parts:
- Part I: Overview of European Data from Official Statistics
- Part II: The EU-LFS: Content, Documentation, Data Structure, Analysis
- Part III: Accessing Confidential National Microdata

There is no attendance fee to the course, but participants will have to cover their own expences for travel and accomodation.

Interested post-graduate and senior researchers should send a short application letter (max. 500 words) explaining their motivation to 1st-dwb-training@gesis.org

Deadline for application: 15 June 2012.

For further information on the course: http://dwbproject.org/events/tc1.html

Announcement of DwB course (pdf, 107 Ko): http://dwbproject.org/export/sites/default/events/doc/first_dwb_training.pdf

Contact person: christof.wolf@gesis.org

EU researchers invited to apply for Data without Boundaries access to Secure Data Service

The Secure Data Service is a lead partner in the EU-funded Data without Boundaries (DwB) project. As part of this project, academic researchers within Europe are invited to apply for access to highly detailed social survey, census and business microdata from similar services in the UK, Germany, Netherlands and France (known as 'Research Data Centres').

This is a unique opportunity for researchers to receive specialist support and reimbursement of costs to conduct comparative research across borders.

Researchers should apply to conduct research at Research Data Centres (RDCs) not in the country of their residence. Therefore, researchers applying to access the Secure Data Service under the DwB project should not be resident in the UK.

Datasets available from the Secure Data Service are listed in the Data Library.

To apply, qualified researchers should visit the Data Access section of the DwB website for more information about the other RDCs involved and how to apply. Researchers approved under DwB to use data from the Secure Data Service will be contacted with details of the additional steps necessary to be approved to use the Service.

Access to the data will ordinarily be onsite at the Secure Data Service, located on the campus of the University of Essex. Researchers will be required to attend a half-day training session before being issued with a member logon, however the training session can be incorporated into the onsite visit to conduct research.

About the Data without Boundaries project
How to apply for Data without Boundaries access
Secure Data Service data library