Solving complex social problems with data from Statistics Netherlands

A digital twin of society that policymakers can use to solve complex social problems: that sounds futuristic. Yet this is exactly what researchers from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA), in particular the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), are working on. On 31 May of this year, the fruitful cooperation between Statistics Netherlands and the UvA was extended for five years. We live in a world of complex systems: everything is connected to everything else. The economy, the environment, social security, how people move in their network of friends, colleagues and acquaintances, there are many factors that determine how these systems develop and the systems also influence each other. Since 2019, researchers from CBS and IAS have been jointly investigating this complexity and trying to get a grip on complex problems such as climate change and inequality of opportunity. Grip on complexity.
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