TARKI Social Research Institute

TARKI Social Research Institute is rated 3 out of 5 in the category research. Read and write reviews about TARKI Social Research Institute. TÁRKI Social Research Institute is an independent, private organization that specializes in applied social research. Based in Budapest, Hungary, its research focus ranges from social stratification, social inclusion, labour markets, income distribution, consumption and lifestyle patterns to attitudes in Hungary and (in the majority of its projects) Europe. TÁRKI has its own fieldwork apparatus that is capable of carrying out regular Hungarian surveys on social structure and on attitudes, and of managing large-scale international research. TÁRKI is the Hungarian partner of a number of international social science projects, such as the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP); it is also a partner in other empirical data-collection exercises, like the World Values Survey (WVS), the European Social Sur-vey (ESS) and the more recent Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). For some of these surveys, TÁRKI is the sole Hungarian partner; for others, it teams up with various other Hungarian research institutes and/or universities. This kind of involvement in the general social research networks of Hungary and Europe makes TÁRKI a social research ‘bridge’ to Hungary – and to Europe as well. The majority of TÁRKI’s staff (and of its broader network of scholars) have PhDs, and many hold professorial appointments at major Hungarian universi-ties (and indeed further afield in Europe). TÁRKI is proud to have a distin-guished network of external advisers. TÁRKI has an institutional culture that places great emphasis on excellence in research. Its management has chosen four principles to guide the institute’s staff and activities: independence, highest professional quality, balanced interpretation, and openness and commitment to democracy. These four principles are enshrined in TÁRKI’s Code of Ethics. TÁRKI regularly appears in global rankings of top social policy think tanks, as in the annual Global Go to Think Tank Index reports.