1 October 2025, 15:15 CET
Lecture Hall 1.101
The Life in Kyrgyzstan (LiK) Survey enters its seventh wave in 2025, offering unprecedented longitudinal insights into Kyrgyz society. This 15-year panel study tracking over 8,000 individuals provides a unique window into democratic transitions, economic transformation, and social change.
Along with our partners from GIZ and the World Bank, we will discuss the survey's expanded research potential across multiple domains: political polarization using experimental methods that protect respondent privacy; climate adaptation responses examining household coping strategies with environmental shocks; and childcare policies investigating how early childhood services affect women's labor market participation.
This session highlights opportunities for collaborative research leveraging this rich longitudinal dataset to inform evidence-based policymaking in fragile democratic contexts.