Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce the *release* of the first *Scientific Use File* of the *RISC Regional Panel*: The *RISC **R**egional **P**anel 2021 – Wave 1 *(risc_regpan.2021.w1.v1). For more details and information how the data can be obtained, please see below or visit https://fgz-risc-data.de/datenportal/datenangebot/risc_regional_panel/wave1_...

*The* *RISC Regional Panel: *Coordinated by the RISC section Halle (Saale), sections Bielefeld, Göttingen, and Hannover jointly conducted this panel study on social cohesion in local societies. The RISC Regional Panel covers 12 communes in 4 German federal states (Bavaria, Lower-Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt): One large city (min 200,000 inhabitants), one medium-sized city (max 50,000 inhabitants), and one small commune/village each. The samples are randomly drawn from official registry and the data are representative for each commune.

*The **RISC **R**egional **P**anel 2021 – Wave 1: *The first wave of the dataset comprises data on a wide range of topics like social cohesion, neighbourhoods, media consumption, local infrastructures, andpolarisation.

*Data Access:* The RISC RegPan W1 2021 can be ordered by all *p**ost-doctoral researchers affiliated with a scientific institution*. For that purpose, please set up a *data user account* at https://fgz-risc-data.de/en/registration if not yet done. You can use this account in the future to order all Scientific Use Files available at the Research Data Centre of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RDC-RISC).

Account holders (primary users) may share the data with researchers under their supervision (secondary users). Secondary users must be listed in the primary user's data user account and must sign a privacy policy, which must be archived by the primary user.

We would like to point out that we provide data for scientific use only.

If you have any questions, please contact us at fgzdz@uni-bremen.de.

Best regards, the team of the RDC-RISC