Insightful demographic research demands high-quality data and deserves widespread attention. Throughout its history, NIDI has been highly successful in opening up information sources and in collecting new data. The working group on Data infrastructure and Dissemination pools NIDI’s expertise on responsible and FAIR data management, methodological innovation, open science, knowledge dissemination and outreach activities. Our aim is to make existing data infrastructures at NIDI visible and accessible to researchers from within and outside the institute. In addition we aim to share NIDI’s research and activities with a variety of online and offline audiences.
Core activities
Data infrastructures: The Generations and Gender Programme: Since 2009, NIDI has been hosting the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP). As an international research infrastructure, the GGP provides scientists and policy makers with high quality and cross-nationally comparable longitudinal data on population and family dynamics to answer pressing scientific and societal demographic challenges. The GGP is based on the collection, documentation, and dissemination of data from large-scale, nationally representative demographic surveys in Europe and beyond.
Open science and dissemination activities: Demographic developments have implications for (national) policy in various domains. In collaboration with several Dutch ministries and Statistics Netherlands, NIDI is responsible for monitoring the impact of population change on multiple areas of society. NIDI embraces the principles of Open Science, as evidenced by the high share of open access scientific publications. Moreover, NIDI’s research findings are communicated to the wider public via its own bulletin on populations studies Demos. As a sign of its commitment to producing societally relevant knowledge, NIDI researchers are frequently consulted as experts by national news outlets. NIDI is also active on various social media outlets.
In collaboration with: Lonneke van den Berg, Harry van Dalen, Peter Ekamper and Lin Rouvroye
