This page gives an overview of how georeferenced data can be linked to survey or administrative data. Why Geodata? describes how different levels and types of spatial data can be linked, and Accessing georeferenced data explains where to find them.
Social-Spatial Science Research Data Infrastructure (SoRa)
For linking georeferenced survey data with spatial information, we recommend the Geolinking Service SoRa. SoRa provides curated spatial datasets and standardised linking methods through an R package, allowing researchers to enrich survey data with contextual measures such as accessibility, density or characteristics of the residential environment.
SoRa works under strict data-protection safeguards and offers two modes:
- In Public Mode you can develop and test linkages from anywhere, using synthetic coordinates that mimic the real spatial distribution.
- In Private Mode, installed in the secure environment of the FDZ SOEP at DIW Berlin, the linkage runs on the actual residential coordinates, on site.
Both modes and the measures they produce are described in SoRa’s documentation of the linking methods.
On request, SoRa also generates a permanently stored provenance record documenting each linkage, supporting reproducibility in line with the FAIR principles.
Social-Spatial Science Research Data Infrastructure (SoRa)
For linking georeferenced survey data with spatial information, we recommend the Geolinking Service SoRa. SoRa provides curated spatial datasets and standardised linking methods through an R package, allowing researchers to enrich survey data with contextual measures such as accessibility, density or characteristics of the residential environment.
SoRa works under strict data-protection safeguards and offers two modes:
Both modes and the measures they produce are described in SoRa’s documentation of the linking methods.
On request, SoRa also generates a permanently stored provenance record documenting each linkage, supporting reproducibility in line with the FAIR principles.
Access to the georeferenced SOEP data a linkage uses has to be applied for separately, through the data access route at DIW Berlin.