Activities and Services of TARKI Group:

• Basic social science researches
• Social policy studies, microsimulation modeling
• Surveys, opinion- and market research
• Comparative Central- and East-European studies & surveys
• Social science dataarchive
• Electronic publishing and on-line databases
• Regular and periodic publications

Availability of TARKI:

Hungary 1112 Budapest
Budaörsi út 45.
Phone: (36 1) 309-7676
Fax: (36 1) 309-7666
E-mail: tarki@tarki.hu
URL: http://www.tarki.hu

Researchers of TARKI and their fields of research:

Dr. Tamás Kolosi:  social structure and stratification, methodology
István György Tóth: social policy, income inequality, poverty
Dr. Rudas Tamás: mathematical statistics and methodology, microsimulation of tax and benefit systems
Dr. Róbert Péter: social inequalities and social mobility
Dr. Sik Endre: informal economy, migration, xenophobia
Dr. Gál Róbert: social insurance, health- and welfare reforms
Tarjányi József: survey research
Sági Matild: social stratification and social attitudes
Szivós Péter social policy, poverty, microsimulation of tax and benefit system
Medgyesi Márton, income inequlity and methodology
Nagy Ildikó, family and gender
Fábián Zoltán: authoritarianism and prejudices, social segmentation

Regular publications of TARKI:

Social Report (in Hungarian published since 1990 biannually, available in English for 1990 and 1998);
Forecast of Social Trends (in Hungarian: six monthly);
Social Policy Working Papers: (in Hungarian with English abstracts, monthly);
Business Cycles Reports (in Hungarianl, six monthly);
Research Reports (in Hungarian);
Survey Documentations (in Hungarian or/and in English);
Studies on Methodology  (in Hungarian);
Data Catalogues (bilingual Hungarian-English).

International Contacts:

The Social Research Informatics Center is the member of the International Federation of Data Organisations (IFDO),the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).  TARKI participate in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and in the cross-national comparative projects of the CEPS/INSTEAD Luxembourg. TARKI also take part in Central- and East-Europenan comparative surveys together with Polish and Czech partner institutions.

Budapest University of Economic Sciences (BKE)
Institute for Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest
Kossuth Lajos University (KLTE), Debrecen
József Attila University (JATE), Szeged
Institute for Sociology at Hungarian Academy of Sciences
National Institute for Technical Education
Institute for Political Sciences at Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Central Statistical Office (CSO)