Research infrastructure

Humankind, culture and society

Research infrastructure

Humankind, culture and society

CORS – Comparative Research Center Sweden

CORS is made up of six research infrastructures for comparative social sciences research. CORS research focuses on studying how human behaviour, values, attitudes, health and quality of life differ from country to country. ESS-S and SHARE-S are part of CORS.

CORS is a research infrastructure within the field of comparative social sciences research and includes five of the largest and best known social sciences survey-based research programmes in Sweden: European Social Survey (ESS), European Values Study (EVS), International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the Swedish National Election Studies Program (SNES). The CORS organisation also includes the Laboratory of Opinion Research (LORE), which conducts data collection via internet surveys with particular focus on experiments and panel studies.

The focus of CORS's research is on studying how human behaviour, values, attitudes, health and quality of life differ, both between countries and between regions, and also within populations and at individual level. This means that changes in social phenomena can be studied in relation to events at institutional level. Two of the surveys that make up CORS are Swedish nodes (both at Umeå University) in ERIC consortiums: ESS-ERIC and SHARE-ERIC, which are both ESFRI landmarks.

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