The RISS Reconfiguration Data Set aims at providing reliable and high-quality data of multidimensional structural change over time. This data set will be used to explore multidimensional change among and between various socio-structural dimensions over the last decades. It will allow us to establish and document the key assumptions on which RISS is based: macro-structural reconfiguration. The RISS Reconfiguration Data Set will also serve as a reference and data source for the individual projects, contextualizing and quantifying the specific reconfigurations examined in each. We will use secondary data to build the RISS Reconfiguration Data Set, which will be the first of its kind in being specifically designed to investigate the multidimensional macro-level reconfiguration. The unit of analysis in the RISS Reconfiguration Data Set will be socio-demographic cells over 41 years in the period 1980-2020. The data set will include numerous variables on the multidimensional social structure in Germany, including raw joint-distributions as well as derived multidimensional measures such as the degree of cross-cuttingness. There will be two general types of variables in the RISS Reconfiguration Data Set: a) population distributions for various combinations of socio-structural characteristics and b) derived multidimensional measures of social structure. Together, these will allow us to paint a rich picture of socio-structural change and document the processes of reconfiguration over the last four decades.
The technical report and code for constructing the data set will be released soon.
