DEMSCORE

About DEMSCORE

DEMSCORE is a national collaboration between the universities of Gothenburg, Stockholm, Uppsala, and Umeå. Together the consortium partners are building a world-leading hub for contextual data with free, user-friendly access to data, documentation, and online visualization tools.

DEMSCORE comprises the following databases: 

• Representative Democracy (REPDEM), Umeå University
• Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), University of Gothenburg,
• Quality of Government (QoG); University of Gothenburg,
• Uppsala Conflict Data Program/ViEWS (UC DP/ViEWS), Uppsala University,
• Comparative Policy Labratory (COMPLAB), Stockholm University.

The University of Gothenburg hosts the consortium. Umeå University hosts REPDEM that is part of this national research infrastructure, and that you can find more information about on Umeå University's REPDEM website.

DEMSCORE facilitates large-scale comparative analyses on the grand challenges of today’s societies, including those caused by population aging, rapidly changing migration patterns, increased social inequalities, accelerating globalization, recurrent financial crises, political deadlocks, violent conflict, and the rise of populism. The interdisciplinary nature of Demscore data is essential to advance adequate policy responses to such complex, and interrelated societal challenges facing Sweden, Europe, and the world today.

Data and access

DEMSCORE is an innovative e-infrastructure providing harmonized data from several of the world’s largest datasets on Democracy, Environment, Migration, Social Policy, Conflict, and Representation. Users get free online access to all data sources and more than 25,000 variables, easy download of selections with an automatically generated codebook, and a number of visualization tools for those who do not master statistics software.

For more information and data download, please visit DEMSCORE's data website.