The Netherlands Institute for Social Research│SCP is a government agency which conducts empirical research into the social aspects of all areas of government policy. The main fields studied are health, welfare, social security, the labour market and education, with a particular focus on the interfaces between these fields. The reports published by SCP are widely used by government, civil servants, local authorities, academics, and the general public. Usually there is a high degree of media interest in SCP reports.
All SCP publications are publicly available at the website (www.scp.nl). They range from factual monitors to in-depth analytical studies, from short research briefs to voluminous monographs, and from wide-ranging social reports to specific methodological notes. As SCP works mainly for the Dutch government, the focus is on the Dutch society and reports are generally in Dutch. Increasingly, the Dutch situation is compared to other European countries, and almost all publications comprise an English summary (https://www.scp.nl/english).