29. Februar - 1. März 2024
Tagung
The Power of Where – Spatial Insights from Survey Data
Termin
29. Februar - 1. März 2024Sprecher*innen
Daniel Meyer (BBSR), Antonia Milbert (BBSR), Simon Kühne (Bielefeld University), Julia Binder (BTU), Jan GoebelJoint Spring Meeting of BBSR, BTU & SOEP RegioHub
Linking survey data with spatial data is an emerging topic in the social sciences, providing the possibility to contextualize sociodemographic information and social attitudes with geospatial data such as regional indicators, neighborhood information, or environmental time series. The provision of health care, education, housing markets, or transportation infrastructures is spatially dependent and leads to unequal living conditions between urban and rural spaces, Eastern and Western Germany, or between central hubs and left-behind places. Geodata allows for assessing the impact of different spatial opportunity structures on attitudes, preferences, and behaviors. Examples of such research are the proximity effect of refugee accommodation on anti-immigrant attitudes (Schmidt et al. 2023), day-to-day activities in labor market contexts (IAB-SMART), or satisfaction with local pandemic management during the COVID-19 crisis (Jaschke et al. 2023).
Over the past few years, an increasing amount of georeferenced survey data has become available, enabling researchers to investigate the interdependence of individual, household, and spatial factors. In Germany, major surveys like the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS), or the GESIS Panel have started enriching their existing data with regional indicators and other spatial information. At the same time, linking spatial and survey data remains challenging as it requires advanced technical and analytical skills.
Picture of the participants
© R. Schuster/BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
Conference documentation
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Special Session – Data Pitches & Panel Discussion
a) SoRa – Data Linking Service (PDF, 426.49 KB)
b) PASS-GEO – Generating Small-Scale Neighborhood Information for a Large German Panel Study (PDF, 211.09 KB)
c) GESIS Meets Copernicus (PDF, 1.26 MB)
d) SOEPcoal – Implementing a Multidimensional Monitoring System of Germany’s Three Lignite Mining Regions (PDF, 0.83 MB) - Session 1a – Inner-City Segregation
a) Everyday Mobility in German Cities: A Research Proposal for a Smartphone-Based Assessment of Activity Spaces and Their Effect on Social Inequalities (PDF, 1.19 MB)
b) Unmapped Potentials: Measuring and Considering the Self-Defined Residential Area of Individuals (PDF, 1.26 MB)
c) Using Neighborhood Preferences to Develop Agent-Based Models (PDF, 2.49 MB) - Session 1b – Refugees
a) Service Literacy among Refugees in Germany: The Role of Provider Availability (PDF, 2.61 MB)
b) Effect of Area-Level Socioeconomic Deprivation on Mental and Physical Health: A Longitudinal Natural Experiment among Refugees in Germany (PDF, 0.81 MB) - Session 2a – Labor Markets & Regions
a) Revealing Dynamics: The Impact of Minimum Wage on Inequality within Germany’s Regions (PDF, 1.52 MB)
b) Does Cultural Climate in the Region Matter? Utilizing SOEP Data and Spatial Context-Level Data to Analyze Mothers’ Employment Re-Entry (PDF, 1.1 MB)
c) Does the Regional Economic Context Predict Subjective Labor Market Opportunities? Evidence from Germany, UK, Spain and Sweden (PDF, 4.79 MB) - Session 2b – Health
a) Where Does It Hurt? Local General Practitioner Reductions and Hospital Utilization (PDF, 1.94 MB)
b) Does Perceived Neighborhood Social Cohesion Moderate the Effects of County Demographic Changes on Health? (PDF, 270.88 KB)
c) Construction of Wind Turbines Linked to Reductions in Physical Health-Related Quality of Life: Empirical Evidence Using Linked Administrative and Panel Data from Germany, 2002-2020 (PDF, 1.49 MB) - Poster Session
a) Feasibility of Using Survey Data and Semi-Variogram Kriging to Obtain Bespoke Indices of Neighborhood Characteristics: A Simulation and a Case Study (PDF, 2.07 MB)
b) Environmental Justice in Rural Germany (PDF, 1.33 MB)
c) A Matter of Time and Place? Changes in the Willingness for Spatial Mobility of NEET Youth Seeking VET in the Context of Regional Disparities in Germany (PDF, 351.56 KB)
d) Analysis of Municipal Conflicts within the Framework of the Conflict Academy (ConflictA): Methodological Challenges, Initial Results and Future Plans (PDF, 213.09 KB)
e) Address-Based, Grid Cell, Municipality Level or Just Federal State? Opportunities and Limitations of Linking Survey Data with Spatial Data on Aggregated Spatial Units (PDF, 1.87 MB)
f) SoRa – Data Linking Service: Development of the Social-Spatial Science Research Data Infrastructure (PDF, 0.83 MB)
Friday, March 1, 2024
- Session 3a – Politics & Political Behavior
a) How Do Local Contexts Affect Perceptions of Crises in Germany and What Does This Mean for AfD Voting? (PDF, 0.53 MB)
b) The Political Context of Regions and Residential Mobility: Understanding the Political Motivations Behind Migration Intentions and Behavior (PDF, 0.95 MB)
c) Winning the Education Gamble: The Effect of the Economy and Politics on Preferences (PDF, 3.23 MB) - Session 3b – Housing & Neighborhood
a) State-Led Gentrification in German Cities: Investigating the Relationship between Political Interventions, Neighbourhood Upgrading and Displacement (PDF, 2.49 MB)
b) Housing Cooperatives in a Regulated Rental Housing Market (PDF, 1.38 MB)
c) Neighbourhood Sampling and Neighbourhood Characteristics (PDF, 0.84 MB) - Session 4a – Regional Culture
a) Are We All Cistercians Now? The Cultural Legacy of Religious Orders (PDF, 5.8 MB)
b) Dialectal Regions in Germany – More than a Linguistic Description Tool (PDF, 2.55 MB)
c) Perceived Fairness of Government Support for Different Regions: A Survey Experiment in German Decline and Growth Regions (PDF, 0.84 MB) - Session 4b – Labor Markets & Technology
a) Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Skill Demand: A (Spatial) Analysis of German Job Vacancies (PDF, 2.85 MB)
b) Where is the Limit? Effects of Different Operationalisations of the Spatial System on Labour Market Research in Germany (PDF, 444.9 KB) - Session 5a – Transportation & Distances
a) Linking Survey Data for Spatial Public Transit Analysis – Potentials, Relevant Data and Challenges (PDF, 1.55 MB)
b) Another One Rides the Bus? Identifying Spatial Influences on the Job Matching Process of VET Students (PDF, 1.03 MB)
c) Linking Survey Data with Limited Localisation with Address-Level Data on Accessibility (PDF, 7.93 MB) - Session 5b – Life Satisfaction & Participation
a) Effects of Internal Migration on the Life Satisfaction of Apprentices (PDF, 0.6 MB)
b) Layers of Inequality (PDF, 1.07 MB)
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We invite scholars who combine spatial and survey data to present research stemming from a broad range of disciplines, including geography, sociology, economics, planning, and political science. We welcome diverse contributions ranging from presentations of empirical findings to theoretical reflections and methodological discussions (e.g., data linkage challenges or mapping techniques). The workshop aims to facilitate a constructive exchange of ideas, and we particularly encourage doctoral candidates and young scholars to present the current state of their research.
Deadlines and other information keyboard_arrow_up
The spring meeting is conceived as a lunch-to-lunch event and will take place in person at Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus.
Abstracts of no longer than 300 words should be submitted to Daniel Meyer by November 15, 2023.
Applicants will receive a notification of acceptance by November 30, 2023.
The event is organized by Daniel Meyer (BBSR), Antonia Milbert (BBSR), Jan Goebel (DIW Berlin – SOEP), Simon Kühne (Bielefeld University), and Julia Binder (BTU)
Downloads
- Program (PDF, 379.26 KB)
