Stockholm University Expertise in largescale comparative and institutional social policy analysis About this research infrastructure General information Name of infrastructure The Swedish Institute for Social Research SOFI ID: 655773
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Transnational access
SOFI (@ Stockholm University)Expertise in large-scale comparative and institutional social policy analysis
About this research infrastructureGeneral informationName of infrastructureThe Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)OrganisationStockholm UniversityLocationStockholm, SwedenWebsitewww.sofi.su.seContactKenneth Nelson, kennethn@sofi.su.seDuration of access5, 10, 15 working daysTotal number of places for visitors18Total number of available visit days160
Infrastructure specificationsAvailable data and data setsSOFI will provide on-site access to unique comparative social policy data and transfer of user knowledge in relation to large-scale comparative social policy analysis. In terms of data sets, this infrastructure gives access to published data within the Social Policy Indicators Database (SPIN). The SPIN database provides the foundations for new comparative and longitudinal research on causes and consequences of welfare states. Building on T.H. Marshall’s ideas about social citizenship, SPIN makes available comparative data on social rights and duties of citizens, thereby moving research beyond analyses of welfare state expenditures. The SPIN database is thus oriented towards analyses of institutions as manifested in social policy legislation. Data are carefully collected in a coherent and consistent methodological manner to facilitate quantitative research of social policy across time and space. To date, SPIN covers 34 countries, of which several have data on core social policy programs from 1930 to 2013. The SPIN database includes the following data modules; the Out-of-Work Benefits Dataset (OUTWB), the Child Benefit Dataset (CBD), the Parental Leave Benefit Dataset (PLB), the Social Assistance and Minimum Income Protection Interim Dataset (SAMIP), the Social Citizenship Indicator Program (SCIP), and the Social Insurance Entitlements Dataset (SIED). SPIN also includes two unreleased data sets; the Social Policy in East Asia Dataset (SPEAD) and the Child Care Dataset (CCD).Team and expertiseSOFI has a strong tradition in comparative welfare state research of highest international standards. The research team in the social policy unit of SOFI has a good track record in research on the causes and consequences of social policies and welfare states. Our research group is well integrated into the international research community and have for many years conducted pioneering analyses linking social policy institutions to driving forces and micro level outcomes in European and OECD countries.Relevant issues considering the data infrastructureMore details of our data are provided at following websites: http://www.sofi.su.se/spinAvailable statistical software packagesThe most common statistical software packages are available at SOFI, such as SPSS and STATA.
Services and support offered
Besides access to policy data, users will get support and coaching from trained and qualified staff during their stay. We are keen to pass on acquired skills related to the collection of institutional and comparative policy data to other researchers and thereby move forward research frontiers of welfare state analysis. In so doing, support may cover all phases of the research process, including setting up new forms for data collection and processing of institutional information for a large number of countries and years. Thus, we are committed to train and supervise researchers to fruitfully apply institutional and comparative data in the analysis of driving forces and individual level outcomes in fields of relevance for social development.
Users will have on-site access to the research infrastructure and research facilities of SOFI and Stockholm University, including: access to the data infrastructure free of additional charges, introduction to comparative welfare state analysis by research staff, scientific and technical support and advice by research staff, individual coaching, training and mentoring, preparatory work by staff of infrastructure (including setting up of data access rights, computer configuration, scientific and technical advice prior to the arrival of users), participation in local regular research seminars (weekly), office space, including furniture and consumables, computation server (with software packages such as SPSS and STATA), access to the university library and other university facilities.
Require-ments for access
Users shall acknowledge the support of SOFI within the InGRID-2 project in an appropriate manner in all output following from the visit.
Typical projects and examples
Ferrarini, T., Nelson, K., Korpi, W., Palme, J. 2012. ‘Social citizenship rights and social insurance replacement rate validity: pitfalls and possibilities’, Journal of European Public Policy (Forthcoming).
Nelson, K. 2011. ‘Counteracting material deprivation: the role of social assistance in Europe’, Journal of European Social Policy 22(2): 148-163.
Sjöberg, O. (2010). “Social Insurance as a Collective Resource: Unemployment Benefits, Job Insecurity and Subjective Well-being in a Comparative Perspective”. Social Forces
, 88(3
): 1281-1304.