NIDI, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

What NIDI, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute does

NIDI (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute) is a non-profit research institute headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, established in 1975 and operating as a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) with affiliation to the University of Groningen. It is the designated national demographic research institute of the Netherlands and conducts interdisciplinary scientific research on population issues, organized around five research themes: Demographic Change and the Labour Market; Families and Gender; Health, Ageing and Mortality; Migration and Migrants; and Data Infrastructure and Open Science.

The institute's core product portfolio consists of research data infrastructure rather than commercial goods. The Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) is a multi-wave, multi-actor, multi-method longitudinal panel study covering ~9,500 participants on family and kinship ties. The Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) is an internationally comparative survey programme on partnerships, fertility, work-family balance, and parent-child relationships coordinated by NIDI across UNECE member states. ODISSEI provides a Secure Supercomputer enabling researchers to link large-scale longitudinal survey data to Dutch population registers held by Statistics Netherlands (CBS). The Comparative Family Policy Database supplies standardized contextual data on family benefits and parental leave across developed countries for 1960-2010. SERISS coordinates six European research infrastructures (ESS, SHARE, CESSDA, EVS, GGP, Wage Indicator) under EU Horizon 2020 funding. NIDI also publishes the DEMOS bulletin on population and society.

NIDI's business model is non-commercial public funding. The institute does not charge for research outputs or data access; publications and datasets are made freely available. Funding flows from KNAW institutional support, Dutch National Research Foundation (NWO) grants, European Research Council (ERC) grants (including a €3.5 million Advanced Grant to Frank van Tubergen and prior Starting and Consolidator grants to Helga de Valk), and EU Horizon 2020 / Norface programme grants. Stakeholder customers are Dutch government agencies and policymakers, academic researchers at universities and research institutes, and international bodies such as UNECE participating in the GGP. Distribution is through scholarly channels (peer-reviewed journals, conferences, open data platforms) rather than commercial sales.

Name

NIDI, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

Legal name

Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

Website

https://nidi.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1975

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

NIDI is the Netherlands' national demographic research institute, affiliated with KNAW and the University of Groningen. It conducts interdisciplinary population research and maintains longitudinal panel studies, international survey programmes, and secure register-data infrastructure for policymakers, academia, and international bodies.

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Product category

Demographic Research Services

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Survey, Panel & Fieldwork Services (BPAHALAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Linkage, Registries & Longitudinal Cohort Surveillance (HLAJANAM), Industry & Sector Research (Syndicated/Custom) (BPAHALAE)

Keywords

• Demographic research
• Population studies
• Longitudinal panel data
• Comparative survey research
• Family policy research

Headquarters

HQ city

The Hague

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

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Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Others

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Core offering

NIDI conducts interdisciplinary scientific research on population dynamics, maintaining large-scale longitudinal panel studies (NKPS with 9,500+ participants and GGP covering UNECE countries), comparative family policy databases, and secure data infrastructure (ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer) for register data linkage. The institute delivers evidence-based demographic research outputs, policy briefs, and peer-reviewed publications to academic researchers, government policymakers, and international organizations across four research themes: Demographic Change and Labour Market, Families and Gender, Health Ageing and Mortality, and Migration and Migrants.

Product overview

NIDI operates as a national demographic research institute conducting high-level scientific research in population studies. The institute offers a portfolio of interconnected research data infrastructure products: the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) provides international comparative survey data; the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) delivers longitudinal panel data on Dutch family relationships; ODISSEI enables secure linking of survey data to Dutch register data with high-performance computing capabilities; the Comparative Family Policy Database offers historical policy data; and SERISS coordinates European research infrastructure collaboration. NIDI also publishes Demos, a demographic bulletin, and coordinates European Social Survey activities in the Netherlands. These products serve academic researchers, policy makers, and students interested in demographic change, family dynamics, migration, health, and labour market research.

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Brands

• NKPS (Netherlands Kinship Panel Study): Large-scale panel study on solidarity in family relationships in the Netherlands, part of the international Gender and Generations Programme.
• Comparative Family Policy Database
• ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations)
• SERISS (Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences)
• Demos

Products and services

• NKPS (Netherlands Kinship Panel Study) A large-scale multi-actor, multi-method panel study on solidarity in Dutch family relationships, covering leaving home, union formation and dissolution, fertility, and intergenerational support. Data is collected through structured interviews and in-depth open interviews from individual respondents and family members (N = 9,500 at Wave 1). Designed for academic researchers studying family dynamics and kinship ties.
• GGP (Generations and Gender Programme) An international survey program coordinated by NIDI that collects data on partnerships, fertility, work-family balance, and parent-child relationships across multiple UNECE countries. Includes a contextual database enabling comparative demographic research on families and gender across developed countries.
• ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations) A data infrastructure platform allowing researchers to link large-scale longitudinal data to Dutch population register data from Statistics Netherlands. Includes a Secure Supercomputer for high-performance computing analysis of sensitive register-linked research data. Serves academic researchers conducting register-based social science research.
• Comparative Family Policy Database A dataset providing contextual information on family cash benefits and maternity and parental leave policies in developed countries for the period 1960-2010, based on OECD, ILO, and country-specific sources. Made freely available for comparative research on family policy.
• SERISS (Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences) An EU Horizon 2020-funded project coordinated by NIDI that brings together six European research infrastructures (ESS, SHARE, CESSDA, EVS, GGP, Wage Indicator Survey) to address challenges in cross-national data collection and advance social science research.
• Demos A bulletin on population and society published by NIDI, covering demographic research findings and societal implications in Dutch and English. Disseminates research outputs to policymakers, academics, and the broader public.

Quantifiable outcome

• 50 years of continuous demographic research contribution to Netherlands
• +1 more outcomes

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Technology focussed Yes

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Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNIDI is a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). KNAW serves as the management body for national research institutes including NIDI, fulfilling statutory tasks related to academic research and policy advisory roles.
• University of GroningencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNIDI is affiliated with the University of Groningen. Many NIDI researchers hold professorships at UMC Groningen or other faculties of the university, and the institute serves as a research institute within the Dutch academic research ecosystem.
• Utrecht UniversitymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in development of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS), along with Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Amsterdam.
• Erasmus University RotterdammajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in development of the NKPS large-scale database on Dutch families, contributing to multi-institutional research collaboration.
• University of AmsterdammajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in development of NKPS, collaborating with NIDI, Utrecht University, and Erasmus University Rotterdam on Dutch family research.
• European Social Survey (ESS)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNIDI represents the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) in the SERISS project, which brings together ESS, SHARE, CESSDA, EVS, and Wage Indicator Survey to address challenges in cross-national data collection.
• Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the SERISS project collaboration involving six leading European research infrastructures for social science data.
• Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean research infrastructure partner in SERISS project for harmonizing and improving social science data collection across Europe.
• European Values Study (EVS)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in SERISS project, contributing to synergies for Europe's research infrastructures in social sciences.
• Wage Indicator SurveyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipating research infrastructure in SERISS project for improving cross-national data collection.
• Statistics Netherlands (CBS)coreTechnology or IntegrationODISSEI project links large-scale longitudinal data to Dutch population register data made available by Statistics Netherlands, enabling new research possibilities.
• Multiple Dutch Research Institutes (ODISSEI Consortium)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerODISSEI is funded by and connects numerous Dutch institutes, providing the Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations.

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Broad incumbents

• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): Intergovernmental research institute running population and human capital modelling programmes, including the Wittgenstein Centre. Operates as a broader science-and-policy incumbent with overlapping demographic forecasting and policy advisory work.
• European Social Survey (ESS): Major cross-national academic survey infrastructure in Europe and a SERISS partner of NIDI. Both run large-scale recurring surveys that feed social-science research across Europe on attitudes, values, and demographics.
• UNECE Population Unit: Hosts and funds the Generations and Gender Programme that NIDI coordinates. Functions as the policy-side counterpart, setting the demographic evidence agenda that NIDI's research serves.
• Statistics Netherlands (CBS): The Dutch national statistics office that supplies the population register data underpinning ODISSEI analyses. As NIDI's primary data source and co-funder of linked infrastructure, CBS is the broader incumbent counterpart in applied population measurement and analytics.
• CESSDA (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives): Pan-European data archive federation that distributes and curates social-science datasets, including some produced by NIDI. Comparable data infrastructure operator across European social science.

Direct peers

• Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR): Co-developer of the Comparative Family Policy Database and the most direct global counterpart to NIDI in demographic research. MPIDR operates the same combination of longitudinal surveys, register-based analyses, and population forecasting that defines NIDI's portfolio, and the two institutes frequently co-author and co-host infrastructure such as GGP.
• Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital: A collaboration between IIASA, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Vienna focused on demographic modelling, education, and human capital. Highly comparable interdisciplinary demographic research mandate and consortium structure.
• Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE): Longitudinal pan-European panel study on health, ageing, and retirement that overlaps directly with NIDI's Health, Ageing and Mortality theme. Peer infrastructure within the SERISS consortium.
• Paris School of Economics - INED: France's national demographic research institute, also government-affiliated (INED) and conducting interdisciplinary demographic research with longitudinal and comparative survey work. Direct counterpart within the European demographic institute network alongside NIDI.

Emerging players

• Radboud University - NICEST Research Group: Academic demographic and social-science research groups at Dutch universities increasingly conduct applied demographic research using linked register data. Represents the category of university-based competitors and collaborators that bid for the same NWO and ERC grants as NIDI.

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