The study Social Cohesion Radar – An international Comparison of Social Cohesion offers an assessment of the degree of social cohesion in 34 advanced societies (27 member states of the European Union and seven other Western OECD countries: Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zeal-and, Norway, Switzerland, and the US) in four time periods from 1989 to 2012. This Methods Report presents a detailed documentation of the methodology behind it