The digital information system social indicators: a new form of presentation of the German system of social indicators

Issue title: 1995 Siena Group Seminar

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Noll, Heinz-Herbert

Affiliations: ZUMA – Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, Postfach 122155, D-68072 Mannheim, Germany

Abstract: The “Digital Information System Social Indicators” (disi) has been developed to improve the accessibility of statistical information on living conditions and the quality of life in Germany and to make social indicators time series data visible as well as more understandable. It runs on PC's (either MacIntosh or DOS-Windows). It is based on the “German System of Social Indicators” which has been developed as early as the mid-seventies and serves as an instrument of societal monitoring and comprehensive social reporting. This system of social indicators covers 13 life domains and includes approximately 300 indicators and almost 1000 time series. Thus, the system of social indicators provides a database on changes of living conditions, the subjective quality of life as well as changes of the macro structures of the society in general. In addition, most of the indicator time series are disaggregated according to various socio-economic criteria, thus offering information about differences in living conditions between population groups and on social inequality in general.

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-1995-123-412

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 12, no. 3-4, pp. 369-378, 1995