FORS

FORS conducts surveys, designs questionnaires and provides support for the planning of fieldwork. FORS also offers data cleaning and data preparation services, analyses and reporting that adhere to high quality standards, generates data and makes it publicly available at the end of projects and covers all the costs... These activities include both national surveys, such as the Swiss Household Panel, SELECTS and MOSAiCH 2.0, and international surveys, such as the ESS, ISSP, EVS and SHARE. FORS ensures that the national surveys are embedded within the social science research community and also owns these data collections based on open calls for data modules or special mandates for the academic content of surveys. FORS represents Switzerland in the general assemblies of ESS and SHARE and plays various roles in a number of associations in Switzerland relating to national and international projects... We also make these data and services known and promote a research culture of data..

Primary location: Lausanne