Research infrastructure The national research infrastructure DEMSCORE (Democracy, Environment, Migration, Social policy, Conflict, and Representation) brings together some of the world’s leading research infrastructures and databases to enable, accelerate and advance (inter-)national research and large-scale comparative analyses on complex societal challenges facing Sweden and the world.
DEMSCORE is a national collaboration between the universities of Gothenburg, Stockholm, Uppsala, and Umeå. Together the consortium partners are building a world-leading hub for contextual data with free, user-friendly access to data, documentation, and online visualization tools.
DEMSCORE comprises the following databases:
The University of Gothenburg hosts the consortium. Umeå University hosts REPDEM that is part of this national research infrastructure, and that you can find more information about on Umeå University's REPDEM website.
DEMSCORE facilitates large-scale comparative analyses on the grand challenges of today’s societies, including those caused by population aging, rapidly changing migration patterns, increased social inequalities, accelerating globalization, recurrent financial crises, political deadlocks, violent conflict, and the rise of populism. The interdisciplinary nature of Demscore data is essential to advance adequate policy responses to such complex, and interrelated societal challenges facing Sweden, Europe, and the world today.
DEMSCORE focuses on:
DEMSCORE is an innovative e-infrastructure providing free access to harmonized data from several of the world’s largest datasets on Democracy, Environment, Migration, Social Policy, Conflict, and Representation.
The joint Demscore infrastructure ensures that data integrity and quality is at the highest international standards, and it maximizes usability in the measurement of contextual data with over 20,000+ variables across nearly all countries in the world, from 1789 to the present. It creates critical time- and cost saving advantages in data collection, management, distribution, and not the least for end-users in the scientific community. A fully normalized, joint PostgreSQL database, sophisticated programming, and a web-based interface will make it possible to select a series of variables across all six Demscore databases, and get a custom-designed dataset and codebook generated automatically. In addition, online analysis and visualization tools will be available alongside detailed documentation on methodologies and data curation.
For more information and data download, please visit DEMSCORE's data website.
For more information, please visit DEMSCORE's webpage.
You can find more information on REPDEM on REPDEM's Umeå University website, REPDEM's own webpage, or by contacting Johan Hellström orTorbjörn Bergman whose details you can find below.
