GESIS-ZUMA, the Centre for Survey Research and Methodology is an independent, non-profit institute active in social research and academic consulting in numerous fields. GESIS-ZUMA runs the German General Social Survey, co-implements the German Social Welfare Studies, is involved in the European Social Survey and is a founding member of ISSP and a former ISSP secretary, provides the scientific community with census data and regularly publishes the ZUMA-Nachrichten free of charge.
Its research facilities include departments for microdata, social indicators, household income and expenditure, fieldwork, text and media analyses, social sciences computing, mathematics and statistics. In-house research groups work on cognitive survey research, panel analysis, intercultural methodology, standardized background variables, social and regional mobility and computer-assisted text and content analysis.
Founded in 1974, since 1987 one of three members of the German Association of Social Science Infrastructure Establishments (GESIS), GESIS-ZUMA has moved from NSF funding to federal and state government funding (Euro 4,800,000 annually). Of GESIS-ZUMA's 100 staff, two-thirds are involved in research and consultation.
Contact Person Janet Harkness
GESIS-ZUMA
PO BOX 12 21 55
68072 Mannheim
GERMANY
Tel: +49 621 1246 284 - Fax: +49 621 1246 100