Welcome to ZIS!

ZIS is a free service offering tried and tested German, English and multilingual measurement instruments (items, scales, questionnaires, tests, indexes) that have been or can be used in survey research in the social and behavioural sciences, documented according to established scientific quality standards. It is both an archive and a toolbox.

Publish empirically tested measurement, assessment, and survey instruments in a sustainable and citable manner.

Search by topics on the left or use the search function to find measurement instruments for research projects or to search for instruments that have been used in previous surveys.