This publication provides a technical description of the TIES project (The Integration of the European Second generation) survey data collected in the Netherlands in 2006-2007. At the time of writing of this report, all authors were staff members of NIDI. Currently Nienke Hornstra works as a policy advisor at the MBO Raad for Intermediate Vocational Training in Woerden, while George Groenewold works as a senior researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) in The Hague, and Laurence Lessard-Phillips as a research associate at the Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester.

This publication complements another AUP publication entitled “The Position of the Turkish and Moroccan Second Generation in Amsterdam and Rotterdam”, edited by M. Crul and L. Heering, in the IMISCOE research series.

The TIES project is an international collaborative survey research endeavour of institutes in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. The project was implemented under the umbrella of the IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion) Network of Excellence. Funding of the project was obtained from the Swiss Stiftung für Bevölkerung, Migration und Umwelt (BMU), the German Volkswagen Stiftung, the European Science Foundation (ESF), the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Ministry of Justice (DCIM), and the municipalities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

The project was designed, implemented and coordinated by Maurice Crul, Hans Vermeulen and Jens Schneider of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at the University of Amsterdam. Technical guidance and coordination of all TIES surveys, including the harmonization of an international dataset of almost 10,000 respondents, was done by a sequence of teams from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI): Jeannette Schoorl and Ernst Spaan; Liesbeth Heering and George Groenewold; and Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Nienke Hornstra and Christopher Ross.

Main sources for this report were the “Appendix: Sample Design, TIES survey implementation and evaluation” (Groenewold, 2008), from the publication mentioned above, and the fieldwork report by the survey bureau that implemented the TIES survey in the Netherlands (Veldkamp, 2007).